Wednesday 24 May 2017

A Massive 30-Part Guide to Retouching Photos in Photoshop

Want a crash course in retouching photos in Photoshop? Here’s a 4-part video series that clocks in at 4.5 hours in total, making it a very comprehensive guide. There’s something here for everyone — even the most experienced photographers are sure to learn something from the series.

Nathaniel Dodson from tutvid goes over a total of 30 techniques from healing skin blemishes to creating skin texture, replacing skies, puppet warping, and even swapping out faces.

Photoshop is a very powerful piece of software, and it seems that no matter how long you’ve been using it for there’s always something new to learn. It’s always important to understand the tools that you’re working with, so this free series is an excellent way to boost your skillset.

Thankfully, Dodson has provided a full breakdown of the topics covered in the videos. We’ve included the videos below, along with timestamps matching the corresponding moment in each video.

Part One

01:28: Editing ANY Photo in the Camera RAW Editor
07:51: 8-bit vs. 16-bit Images
14:59: Lens Correction and the Transform Tool
19:02: White Balance and Chromatic Aberration Corrections
22:59: Slimming a Figure with Liquify
30:59: Healing Skin Blemishes
35:46: Get Rid of Flyaway Hairs
38:35: Making Simple and Complex Selections with Select Mask
47:17: The Power of Adjustment Layers

Part Two

01:24: All About Levels
07:59: All About Curves
15:18: Blend Modes
19:56: Masking!
25:56: Retouching Eyes
29:49: Whitening Teeth
32:03: Changing Hair Color
37:14: Frequency Separation for Better Skin
44:37: Creating Skin Texture to Add Detail

Part Three

01:00: Reduce and remove wrinkles
02:41: Getting started with the healing brush
06:32: Dodging and Burning
07:58: How to do the burning
13:00: How to do the dodging
14:22: Double dodge and burn trick
15:48: Quick dodge/burn effect
18:47: How to Add a Tattoo Realistically
23:33: Masking the tattoo in place
27:06: Using adjustments to blend the tattoo
30:04: Blurring the tattoo to match
35:43: Select and Replace a Sky with Luminosity/Channel Masks
38:38: Using levels to get the perfect selection
42:44: Replacing the sky and watching the magic happen
45:02: Color Correction Techniques
45:28: Curves for quick corrections
49:58: Targeting and Changing Individual Colors
52:56: Correcting sunburn by targeting the reds
54:32: Four Ways to Create a Black and White Photo
01:00:03: Creating a Basic Composite Image and Blending Colors
01:14:26: Puppet Warp to Change a Person’s Figureo
01:00:03: Creating a Basic Composite Image and Blending Colors
01:14:26: Puppet Warp to Change a Person’s Figure

Part Four

01:00: Content-Aware Everything!
12:42: Smart Filters
18:04: Replacing/Swapping a Face
25:34: Smooth Wrinkles from Clothing
29:41: Color Grading
34:03: Colorize a Black and White Photo
44:34: Extreme Lens Correction
51:55: Lens Flares and Light Leaks
58:32: Global and Selective Sharpening
01:05:49: Cropping, Resizing and Saving Photos

Phew! Finish all of those and you’re well on your way to Photoshop mastery. If you manage that and are still hungry for more knowledge, check out the tutvid YouTube channel — it’s worth a subscribe.

(via tutvid via Fstoppers)