Retouching Photographs
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 running time 21:19
Photoshop can be used to fix and enhance product photography, or to retouch someone's face.
Bring focus to the product: Retouch a wine glass
Bert's first example of retouching involves an etched wine glass that sites on a dark wooden table. Our objective is to create more wine glasses to draw more attention to the glass instead of the table.
Create a work path to add glare to a wine glass
First, add additional glare to the glass by using the pen tool to draw shapes of light. After drawing the shapes, create a new layer, select the work path, then fill the layer's selection with white. Soften the light by applying a gaussian blur. Apply a layer mask to the glare and brush a grey mask to soften up the appearance of the glare. Make sure Shape Dynamics (in Brush Presets) is turned off so that you get a uniform, even shaped brush. This layer mask should have a Screen layer style.
Use alpha channels to apply styling to monogram
The monogram (letters) are saved as an alpha channel so we can apply styles to only the letter areas and not worry about being so precise. We will create a second monograph alpha channel and this version will be blurred. Nudging the blurred alpha channel a couple pixels to the left allows an overlap of channels. Use Calculations to save the overlapped areas into a new alpha channel. See episode 9 for a re-cap of alpha channels.
Add highlights to the product's focal point
Select the new alpha channel that holds the blur overlap. Brush this selection with a white brush in a new layer to add tonality to the monogram graphic. The wine glass now has more attention pulled in than the table
Correct staged photos, such as a winery scene
In a staged product photo, small details are sometimes overlooked, such as wine poured into glasses without the wine bottle being open, or imperfect landscape. Bert retouches a staged winery photo to make it perfect.
Use clone tool to add fruits to a bare tree
Use the clone tool to sample a fruit, and brush the clone onto other areas of the image. In Adobe Photoshop CS4, you get a convenient preview of your cloned area before you commit.
Use brush mode, "Color" to bring dead trees back to life
This example has dead, brown trees. These need to come back to life by turning them green again. Sample a green hue from neighboring foliage and paint the brown trees green using a brush mode, "Color" - this adds color without losing any detail of the leaves. Lower the opacity of the green brush to add color to the edges of the brush for a softer edge.
Use clone Tool to open the bottle of wine
Manually select the mouth of the bottle to apply changes to make the bottle appear open. Simply use the clone tool to sample existing glass and apply this to your selection.
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Highlights
Wacom
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2:33, 4:02, 2:33, 4:02
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Dextre
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3:09, 3:09
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Blu-ray
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2:00, 2:00
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monogram
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5:02, 5:08, 5:12, 8:26, 8:30, 9:33, 5:02, 5:08, 5:12, 8:26, 8:30, 9:33
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Wacom
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2:33, 4:02, 2:33, 4:02
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Dextre
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3:09, 3:09
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Blu-ray
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2:00, 2:00
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monogram
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5:02, 5:08, 5:12, 8:26, 8:30, 9:33, 5:02, 5:08, 5:12, 8:26, 8:30, 9:33
)
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" This episode of that's a perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Welcome depicts a perfect would be -- show where are all kinds of things go on. On today's show that talk about we touching every now and then people want to know about re touching some of they had make pictures of the better. Now the back on the today show was sent by Phoenix Leopold. The thing. Can we -- shaking up. Actually this and the next two weeks are actually -- winners of a contest that was held in Germany. To create backgrounds for the job. Contest -- backgrounds from an article and it was one of the winners so this week and the next two weeks -- gonna see the other finally is there. But we've always start it got thank our sponsors. If you want to make an impact online godaddy.com. Has what you need. Dot com names for as low as a dollar and 99 plus world class hosting fast and easy web site -- and so much more. Let's have yet to cope pixel four when you check out. You'll save an additional 15% on any order of 75 dollars or more some restrictions apply see the site for details. Get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. Also thanks to our friends at Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. Would Netflix you can rent over 90000 titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles. And with fit with free shipping both ways to your home. The Netflix plans start from four dollars and 99 cents and as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect and remember you do have that type in that. WWW. When you're using this code. Okay now let's get to the show here. Now well. -- show you one little thing before we start. The guys that Wacom came up with a whole new line -- deep into -- four."
" Line and I have one of them right here. This beautiful little sleek little device here it's all black. And I don't have to hook up because I'm unison thing here. But this is a great little device for the guys are looking to step up from their into a stereo or whatever it is that they using the bamboo or. Somebody else's or notepad and all this is definitely talented. Improved the performance tremendously it's got a whole lot more pressure sensitivity. And that's the first of this actually -- Dextre is you can hook up your own little power here. And -- be left hander you can just a bit up here and then close and the controls on this side. Now these controls are really cool. You have -- Eight buttons and you don't see the we have the right maxim there's a little read the title changed telling you exactly what that button has been program for -- of Photoshop. I want that to be say he you're glass filter used. It goes shoulder and -- filter and then. You change it does you going to in designing sit at your page up and impose on the same page up right there -- a decent little light up even get a lights out out of the studio. And a little. Real here which controls things that actually would do is button you have four different settings so -- said he could be your brush size. Making it bigger or smaller or zoom or whatever it is that you want to control have four different settings these guys are pretty cold go to. Wacom dot com W a COM dot com to check out there new line. It's -- now. Let's get into the re touching here now. Re touching there's a lot of things to -- you can go in there and and that's a person's basis on the same time as he read that -- necessary especially if products. Very seldom does a product to shop perfectly the first time. Unless you pay a lot for really good start over they're -- something that has to going to get fixed just a little bit of time the product itself is imperfect. I know many times in my -- and advertising. We've shot prototypes we can actually shoot the product we shouldn't prototypes and I was eight and things holding things together little blue. Sticking out the side that -- going to and we cut it back in those days it was really time consuming. 'cause there was no Photoshop so we had -- going into those things by hand whereas Photoshop is making life easier. On screen here we see eight it glass now what's being sold and this particular Barack product here is that monogram. Is that okay our our that's the product that's been sold wine glass with a monogram. But the thing is that there's not much liked -- a monogram doesn't really stand out in fact the glass itself. But -- shouted he shot on this table to table is so ornate and it's kinda. Taking a ride a wave from the classic glasses and his dark central area and your -- being pulled to -- in -- down -- that -- designed. Now when you're planning shots in your planning an image is very important to control. The hi how the person is going to view this thing so. Here's say -- a good case in point we're gonna have to go in there and draw attention to this part of the glass so that it's going to stand out. So now we have that strong there we need to do is add a couple more a couple more days here and there so it's gonna look a lot better. So my pen tool. I'm gonna go -- and -- a nice big glare right in this area here because -- is nothing there but or -- dark wood underneath. I'm gonna create this nice and shape as got kind of follow the edge of the glass down to about here."
" Just follow that edge. And it close it up like that and come around to this little side right in there and there I've got this little shape right in there. Head -- over here and create another little glare that's gonna come down this way like this again following the edge of the glass and come up. Around Baghdad maybe come up to -- glass like that come down and kind of close it off like that take it does little shape right in there -- we can modify these is the beauty of the up until -- that in these paths that I can modify at any point. That I wanted to go tighter and so on that you make this a little wider -- ad does little shape -- in there like that so now. And go to a layer let go into my layers here and create a layer. And I got those who -- and we're going there and fill them with whites are gonna wait for my foreground color I'm gonna go ahead and say our path. There's a word path. I would like they are filled with white space and -- would have said these guys differently or -- and give them a little. A little -- employers. Go live gauzy blur soften them up a little bit. Just to soften those guys up but like that that is good. I might want -- birdies got a little more some gonna select him separately. And quoted at this filter applied and maybe. Blurred just a little bit more about like that. Click okay. Now this guy over here is a little strong so want to do is I'm gonna go to my there's give that. A layer mask and -- MS gonna take a black brush it's gotten as big softest brush go with a 300 effect will make you bigger. And I'm gonna bring many passengers but a bush so those a lot of plain hard. Tone and I'm gonna go in there and as brings out a bit more and have to -- brushes and make sure yeah this -- of the shape dynamics to get nice even shape and he's gonna kind of touched that mask my -- just to soften that. Whole -- there gone back the layers and have put that there."
" In screen. And then reduce capacity just a little so have a little highlight right there TC now we've added. Some actual texture to that part of the glass. Now we need to draw attention to the actual monogram because that is after all the product here is that -- obviously you have your monogram -- impressed or your friends. So. I went ahead and selected those letters at one point and create an alpha channel there's the opera -- Right there that could zoom in on that we see just those letters there Z the way up. What really depend to a selected them if there he did you have contrast you basilica with the magic wand whatever it is. I wouldn't you selected those letters and then save that selection to alpha channel. So here's -- now so now when I wanna do with those. If I wanna add a little. Below here in there just to the edges just these little edges here and there kind of like randomly. Just highlight little spots. That's why I'm gonna do it to an alpha channel that we don't do it that way is because. -- it'll find everything to the letters themselves I want to be so careful that I'm getting things just right and also I just want that. Controls that it softened. Here let's see how that's going to happen it's gonna go closest though. That's -- out there is my my monogram so I'm doing I'm gonna duplicate that alpha channel so I have two of them. And the want him back here in -- it's called on something of course this one -- blurred. And we'll call this one the letters."
" Right so now. The -- I'm going to go in there and -- Gaza ambler. Just enough not that much just enough to kind of soften those edges a little more I like that. And I'm gonna turn on the other ones I've seen both of them now. We're seeing them in red because the fact that it's working -- crit mass mode so I'm seeing. Both channels together to both read some and a double click on the blurred which brings up the channel options and I -- discusses and other shows that it's always good to him fresh it. I change the color of how we're viewing this alpha channel to a blue. And open the capacity up to about 80% remembered at this only deals with how you see the channel when other channels -- visible. Because of the color indicates the -- it here and it's black which is we'll believe it. Click okay and now we see this little -- on the edge there where that. -- channel is overlapping the but there's channel and out of my move tool I'm gonna move -- get over just a little bit hitting my cursor keys. Up and or rather down and to the left a little bit so I get this little overlap right in there see it grab it in that edge and there. And here. So on CNN little overlap. So now. I'm gonna going to. Calculations. And calculations and going to take that. Blurred channel for source one -- source to on the put the letters channel and want to do is I'm going to subtract one from the other. Experts going to expose that little edge as you see right in there they. Someone click okay sending information to a new channel there isn't -- There's my -- now this is exposing the areas that I want to to use now. Way back in episode nine I explain this stuff in -- talks about. With these channels do and so on. If you're not quite familiar -- this download episode nine long time ago. And they you'll see an explanation of what exactly these grey values are going to mean now. Now note that tonight RGB Blair might that is -- And I'm going to go that down command click on it control click on a PC which turns into a selection is a little more chance."
" I'm just gonna hide those much chance we don't need to see those we want to be able to see the area that we are working and with white and I take my paintbrush. Which I don't need that big of -- just come down a bit too nice manageable size that say about that's a good size and not I don't have to be very. Clearly that I could just be very -- that but I am gonna put in a separate layer. I'm gonna go in and just save as well throw a little white withdrew that capacity back up with auto white right in there. And maybe in the white right in there and right on that little. Edged down there so little white. The way there right. But on the edges of the aid if putting a bit right up on top there maybe a little touch right in there. On the a put it in the -- and so on so -- just get this little bit about. Commonality happening in this so you see which is ending little."
" Ran them highlights and various places. And -- a nice big highlight there. I create another layer -- to -- in there and these selected and then with a much larger brush. I might just -- that'll tap right there so we get this little extra highlight vista's been down right there but many -- just a little. -- Apple back there we see that we have this nice little highlight there want to pull back to the overall image now we see that we've drawn attention. To the letters themselves they stick out more and we actually see the glass to the glass becomes more focal point and these things become what they're supposed to be which is just a little prop on the side. Cap so now. Let's go look at another the situation here. And keeping in a wine theme. We have this little -- here right so we're gonna do with this particular scene as let's look at it and see what's wrong with it. K for one thing the photographer's assistant eight somebody oranges that were over here. So the Treo -- old bear towards atop the lab bits of oranges. These trees back here they died. So we're gonna bring those trees back to life. And then we got the court here and we get the wine poured but. I don't know how they did this because the bottle was never opened. Is that -- of the bottle was never opened yet the court is out here in the winds in the glasses so of course we have to do is going to school and in. Open that bottle so those are the three things that we have to do this you otherwise is c.'s perfect right. So the job. Spines well that's a pretty easy thing to do because we have other oranges in the scene I -- my clone tool. Right there and organized big size. -- got a nice soft edge to it so it'll blend in nicely and I'm gonna pick up this guy right here and go and just kind of put them right in there like that and -- does that what I clone. Click the museums for shows me exactly in my little preview there what it of them about the clone someone going -- not to start. Drawing this guy and I've got hypersensitive and sensitivity set up so it's. Adding little things. Lately I'm starting very light so I'm getting a small. Brush and I pressed harder get a bigger brush and if they have one more right in here. Credit in there and somehow we got one more -- just -- here too soon to have a couple of oranges there. We've pulled back analogous oranges entry is looking -- happy tree. Out of bushes to bushes are currently dead so got to. Go in here bring them back to life. So I -- not to get green like this green that's going here is pretty good so go ahead and the bad dream right there let's get this. Could the brightest one right there in fact it's going marriages. And should get -- to greener and there and now. In my background gonna take my brush. And we got a nice size sixty that looks pretty good and I -- the pain it's just gonna do that kind of thing right so to me and do that. What I need to do it preserve all those little lights and -- that we -- food all the little. Detail of retrieving those out of focus because William back we wanna preserve that so now I somehow change the motive the brush. Two color. So now when I start to -- you see that I'm simply. Changing the existing tones. To a new color which is a dream so I get all those little details are still there. And I can go and start paying all these little parts let's go back in here and -- little piece -- bush here and this guy here let's go in there and just kind of and -- formalities here and there. Okay and you can bring that you -- the if you wish. For the brush and it just touch up some of -- little edges so that they don't have such harsh ending. When he reached the other background. Such as getting a little extra green just to soften that up and now when we pull back. It's starting to look much nicer things alive for now the final touch is a little bottle so gonna zoom in real close and little bottle there. And with the light pen tool. I'm going to select this little portion right here. And I'm gonna go in here and that's elitists. Are going to pull this stuff right through here. Pull that up. Across."
" And option clicking down right good reason for the option keys that I get a an independent handled right there that can manipulate. Today that this -- those shape. So in that there I'm gonna go ahead and take that path and turned it into a selection. So we have a selection then moved down here. To thank you see the actual bottle here and I'm going to take. My clone tool. And there's my Tonto and that's get a much smaller brush just time to organize hearted prospectus thirteen that's good. And they will soften up just a little bit. Now our goal here and grab this. Highlight the area right there and go straight up and start drawing -- that and I would just -- right across the whole top edge of the bottle there. And they we see that now the bottle has been opened so we pull back the bottle is opened. The bushes have been brought back to life and we have some more oranges on the tree and the image starts to look all the more complete. When you're -- an image look at oversee what's going -- okay. It also it also helps to have a friend look at. Because sometimes you might overlook something you've been looking at the sole long look you set it up -- there was a perfect. And you might have overlooked something like maybe something was misspelled a little sign something as simple as that. But of the data so much you just overlook it. So that's something else look at and see. How it looks doesn't look right does everything work. And then what isn't working go in there and Photoshop constructively touch it and you've learned a lot of those tricks here to show. Kind of put to use. Now there's anything else you'd like to see on the show sandy -- at the -- at revision3.com. Woolsey can check out the forums at revision3.com. Forward slash forums where you can join discussions about the show and even possibly influence if you can show. Thanks again to Felix Leopold for this. Wonderful background here this look at it one more time. Very relaxing. And right. Remember. Your artwork -- be back here when I'm seeing is this is big green screen. -- actually see the background there but. Here does not have -- your artwork and fill the screen back here and had a different whole world to see. Send your designs to be a -- at revision3.com. And your background should be. 1280 by 720 pixels and a JPEG file. Don't changed those resolutions have caused them going to have to truncate the background whatever you're gonna lose parts of it you want to see the whole image -- so make sure it's 1280 by seven -- You check out my latest book Photoshop studio with -- Monroe digital -- go to Amazon.com a pizza dot com our. Link to it directly from my site. But -- dot com where you can also go in and see upcoming events and appearances. If they're open to public they'll be listed on my site. And now also there's little place we even registered to get information about an upcoming class here in the Bay Area. So join us again next week I hope you learned something from this and I'm gonna play it's the best way to learn is to suit their play was still about six it is. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next week."
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" This episode of that's a perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Welcome depicts a perfect would be -- show where are all kinds of things go on. On today's show that talk about we touching every now and then people want to know about re touching some of they had make pictures of the better. Now the back on the today show was sent by Phoenix Leopold. The thing. Can we -- shaking up. Actually this and the next two weeks are actually -- winners of a contest that was held in Germany. To create backgrounds for the job. Contest -- backgrounds from an article and it was one of the winners so this week and the next two weeks -- gonna see the other finally is there. But we've always start it got thank our sponsors. If you want to make an impact online godaddy.com. Has what you need. Dot com names for as low as a dollar and 99 plus world class hosting fast and easy web site -- and so much more. Let's have yet to cope pixel four when you check out. You'll save an additional 15% on any order of 75 dollars or more some restrictions apply see the site for details. Get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. Also thanks to our friends at Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. Would Netflix you can rent over 90000 titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles. And with fit with free shipping both ways to your home. The Netflix plans start from four dollars and 99 cents and as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect and remember you do have that type in that. WWW. When you're using this code. Okay now let's get to the show here. Now well. -- show you one little thing before we start. The guys that Wacom came up with a whole new line -- deep into -- four."
" Line and I have one of them right here. This beautiful little sleek little device here it's all black. And I don't have to hook up because I'm unison thing here. But this is a great little device for the guys are looking to step up from their into a stereo or whatever it is that they using the bamboo or. Somebody else's or notepad and all this is definitely talented. Improved the performance tremendously it's got a whole lot more pressure sensitivity. And that's the first of this actually -- Dextre is you can hook up your own little power here. And -- be left hander you can just a bit up here and then close and the controls on this side. Now these controls are really cool. You have -- Eight buttons and you don't see the we have the right maxim there's a little read the title changed telling you exactly what that button has been program for -- of Photoshop. I want that to be say he you're glass filter used. It goes shoulder and -- filter and then. You change it does you going to in designing sit at your page up and impose on the same page up right there -- a decent little light up even get a lights out out of the studio. And a little. Real here which controls things that actually would do is button you have four different settings so -- said he could be your brush size. Making it bigger or smaller or zoom or whatever it is that you want to control have four different settings these guys are pretty cold go to. Wacom dot com W a COM dot com to check out there new line. It's -- now. Let's get into the re touching here now. Re touching there's a lot of things to -- you can go in there and and that's a person's basis on the same time as he read that -- necessary especially if products. Very seldom does a product to shop perfectly the first time. Unless you pay a lot for really good start over they're -- something that has to going to get fixed just a little bit of time the product itself is imperfect. I know many times in my -- and advertising. We've shot prototypes we can actually shoot the product we shouldn't prototypes and I was eight and things holding things together little blue. Sticking out the side that -- going to and we cut it back in those days it was really time consuming. 'cause there was no Photoshop so we had -- going into those things by hand whereas Photoshop is making life easier. On screen here we see eight it glass now what's being sold and this particular Barack product here is that monogram. Is that okay our our that's the product that's been sold wine glass with a monogram. But the thing is that there's not much liked -- a monogram doesn't really stand out in fact the glass itself. But -- shouted he shot on this table to table is so ornate and it's kinda. Taking a ride a wave from the classic glasses and his dark central area and your -- being pulled to -- in -- down -- that -- designed. Now when you're planning shots in your planning an image is very important to control. The hi how the person is going to view this thing so. Here's say -- a good case in point we're gonna have to go in there and draw attention to this part of the glass so that it's going to stand out. So now we have that strong there we need to do is add a couple more a couple more days here and there so it's gonna look a lot better. So my pen tool. I'm gonna go -- and -- a nice big glare right in this area here because -- is nothing there but or -- dark wood underneath. I'm gonna create this nice and shape as got kind of follow the edge of the glass down to about here."
" Just follow that edge. And it close it up like that and come around to this little side right in there and there I've got this little shape right in there. Head -- over here and create another little glare that's gonna come down this way like this again following the edge of the glass and come up. Around Baghdad maybe come up to -- glass like that come down and kind of close it off like that take it does little shape right in there -- we can modify these is the beauty of the up until -- that in these paths that I can modify at any point. That I wanted to go tighter and so on that you make this a little wider -- ad does little shape -- in there like that so now. And go to a layer let go into my layers here and create a layer. And I got those who -- and we're going there and fill them with whites are gonna wait for my foreground color I'm gonna go ahead and say our path. There's a word path. I would like they are filled with white space and -- would have said these guys differently or -- and give them a little. A little -- employers. Go live gauzy blur soften them up a little bit. Just to soften those guys up but like that that is good. I might want -- birdies got a little more some gonna select him separately. And quoted at this filter applied and maybe. Blurred just a little bit more about like that. Click okay. Now this guy over here is a little strong so want to do is I'm gonna go to my there's give that. A layer mask and -- MS gonna take a black brush it's gotten as big softest brush go with a 300 effect will make you bigger. And I'm gonna bring many passengers but a bush so those a lot of plain hard. Tone and I'm gonna go in there and as brings out a bit more and have to -- brushes and make sure yeah this -- of the shape dynamics to get nice even shape and he's gonna kind of touched that mask my -- just to soften that. Whole -- there gone back the layers and have put that there."
" In screen. And then reduce capacity just a little so have a little highlight right there TC now we've added. Some actual texture to that part of the glass. Now we need to draw attention to the actual monogram because that is after all the product here is that -- obviously you have your monogram -- impressed or your friends. So. I went ahead and selected those letters at one point and create an alpha channel there's the opera -- Right there that could zoom in on that we see just those letters there Z the way up. What really depend to a selected them if there he did you have contrast you basilica with the magic wand whatever it is. I wouldn't you selected those letters and then save that selection to alpha channel. So here's -- now so now when I wanna do with those. If I wanna add a little. Below here in there just to the edges just these little edges here and there kind of like randomly. Just highlight little spots. That's why I'm gonna do it to an alpha channel that we don't do it that way is because. -- it'll find everything to the letters themselves I want to be so careful that I'm getting things just right and also I just want that. Controls that it softened. Here let's see how that's going to happen it's gonna go closest though. That's -- out there is my my monogram so I'm doing I'm gonna duplicate that alpha channel so I have two of them. And the want him back here in -- it's called on something of course this one -- blurred. And we'll call this one the letters."
" Right so now. The -- I'm going to go in there and -- Gaza ambler. Just enough not that much just enough to kind of soften those edges a little more I like that. And I'm gonna turn on the other ones I've seen both of them now. We're seeing them in red because the fact that it's working -- crit mass mode so I'm seeing. Both channels together to both read some and a double click on the blurred which brings up the channel options and I -- discusses and other shows that it's always good to him fresh it. I change the color of how we're viewing this alpha channel to a blue. And open the capacity up to about 80% remembered at this only deals with how you see the channel when other channels -- visible. Because of the color indicates the -- it here and it's black which is we'll believe it. Click okay and now we see this little -- on the edge there where that. -- channel is overlapping the but there's channel and out of my move tool I'm gonna move -- get over just a little bit hitting my cursor keys. Up and or rather down and to the left a little bit so I get this little overlap right in there see it grab it in that edge and there. And here. So on CNN little overlap. So now. I'm gonna going to. Calculations. And calculations and going to take that. Blurred channel for source one -- source to on the put the letters channel and want to do is I'm going to subtract one from the other. Experts going to expose that little edge as you see right in there they. Someone click okay sending information to a new channel there isn't -- There's my -- now this is exposing the areas that I want to to use now. Way back in episode nine I explain this stuff in -- talks about. With these channels do and so on. If you're not quite familiar -- this download episode nine long time ago. And they you'll see an explanation of what exactly these grey values are going to mean now. Now note that tonight RGB Blair might that is -- And I'm going to go that down command click on it control click on a PC which turns into a selection is a little more chance."
" I'm just gonna hide those much chance we don't need to see those we want to be able to see the area that we are working and with white and I take my paintbrush. Which I don't need that big of -- just come down a bit too nice manageable size that say about that's a good size and not I don't have to be very. Clearly that I could just be very -- that but I am gonna put in a separate layer. I'm gonna go in and just save as well throw a little white withdrew that capacity back up with auto white right in there. And maybe in the white right in there and right on that little. Edged down there so little white. The way there right. But on the edges of the aid if putting a bit right up on top there maybe a little touch right in there. On the a put it in the -- and so on so -- just get this little bit about. Commonality happening in this so you see which is ending little."
" Ran them highlights and various places. And -- a nice big highlight there. I create another layer -- to -- in there and these selected and then with a much larger brush. I might just -- that'll tap right there so we get this little extra highlight vista's been down right there but many -- just a little. -- Apple back there we see that we have this nice little highlight there want to pull back to the overall image now we see that we've drawn attention. To the letters themselves they stick out more and we actually see the glass to the glass becomes more focal point and these things become what they're supposed to be which is just a little prop on the side. Cap so now. Let's go look at another the situation here. And keeping in a wine theme. We have this little -- here right so we're gonna do with this particular scene as let's look at it and see what's wrong with it. K for one thing the photographer's assistant eight somebody oranges that were over here. So the Treo -- old bear towards atop the lab bits of oranges. These trees back here they died. So we're gonna bring those trees back to life. And then we got the court here and we get the wine poured but. I don't know how they did this because the bottle was never opened. Is that -- of the bottle was never opened yet the court is out here in the winds in the glasses so of course we have to do is going to school and in. Open that bottle so those are the three things that we have to do this you otherwise is c.'s perfect right. So the job. Spines well that's a pretty easy thing to do because we have other oranges in the scene I -- my clone tool. Right there and organized big size. -- got a nice soft edge to it so it'll blend in nicely and I'm gonna pick up this guy right here and go and just kind of put them right in there like that and -- does that what I clone. Click the museums for shows me exactly in my little preview there what it of them about the clone someone going -- not to start. Drawing this guy and I've got hypersensitive and sensitivity set up so it's. Adding little things. Lately I'm starting very light so I'm getting a small. Brush and I pressed harder get a bigger brush and if they have one more right in here. Credit in there and somehow we got one more -- just -- here too soon to have a couple of oranges there. We've pulled back analogous oranges entry is looking -- happy tree. Out of bushes to bushes are currently dead so got to. Go in here bring them back to life. So I -- not to get green like this green that's going here is pretty good so go ahead and the bad dream right there let's get this. Could the brightest one right there in fact it's going marriages. And should get -- to greener and there and now. In my background gonna take my brush. And we got a nice size sixty that looks pretty good and I -- the pain it's just gonna do that kind of thing right so to me and do that. What I need to do it preserve all those little lights and -- that we -- food all the little. Detail of retrieving those out of focus because William back we wanna preserve that so now I somehow change the motive the brush. Two color. So now when I start to -- you see that I'm simply. Changing the existing tones. To a new color which is a dream so I get all those little details are still there. And I can go and start paying all these little parts let's go back in here and -- little piece -- bush here and this guy here let's go in there and just kind of and -- formalities here and there. Okay and you can bring that you -- the if you wish. For the brush and it just touch up some of -- little edges so that they don't have such harsh ending. When he reached the other background. Such as getting a little extra green just to soften that up and now when we pull back. It's starting to look much nicer things alive for now the final touch is a little bottle so gonna zoom in real close and little bottle there. And with the light pen tool. I'm going to select this little portion right here. And I'm gonna go in here and that's elitists. Are going to pull this stuff right through here. Pull that up. Across."
" And option clicking down right good reason for the option keys that I get a an independent handled right there that can manipulate. Today that this -- those shape. So in that there I'm gonna go ahead and take that path and turned it into a selection. So we have a selection then moved down here. To thank you see the actual bottle here and I'm going to take. My clone tool. And there's my Tonto and that's get a much smaller brush just time to organize hearted prospectus thirteen that's good. And they will soften up just a little bit. Now our goal here and grab this. Highlight the area right there and go straight up and start drawing -- that and I would just -- right across the whole top edge of the bottle there. And they we see that now the bottle has been opened so we pull back the bottle is opened. The bushes have been brought back to life and we have some more oranges on the tree and the image starts to look all the more complete. When you're -- an image look at oversee what's going -- okay. It also it also helps to have a friend look at. Because sometimes you might overlook something you've been looking at the sole long look you set it up -- there was a perfect. And you might have overlooked something like maybe something was misspelled a little sign something as simple as that. But of the data so much you just overlook it. So that's something else look at and see. How it looks doesn't look right does everything work. And then what isn't working go in there and Photoshop constructively touch it and you've learned a lot of those tricks here to show. Kind of put to use. Now there's anything else you'd like to see on the show sandy -- at the -- at revision3.com. Woolsey can check out the forums at revision3.com. Forward slash forums where you can join discussions about the show and even possibly influence if you can show. Thanks again to Felix Leopold for this. Wonderful background here this look at it one more time. Very relaxing. And right. Remember. Your artwork -- be back here when I'm seeing is this is big green screen. -- actually see the background there but. Here does not have -- your artwork and fill the screen back here and had a different whole world to see. Send your designs to be a -- at revision3.com. And your background should be. 1280 by 720 pixels and a JPEG file. Don't changed those resolutions have caused them going to have to truncate the background whatever you're gonna lose parts of it you want to see the whole image -- so make sure it's 1280 by seven -- You check out my latest book Photoshop studio with -- Monroe digital -- go to Amazon.com a pizza dot com our. Link to it directly from my site. But -- dot com where you can also go in and see upcoming events and appearances. If they're open to public they'll be listed on my site. And now also there's little place we even registered to get information about an upcoming class here in the Bay Area. So join us again next week I hope you learned something from this and I'm gonna play it's the best way to learn is to suit their play was still about six it is. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next week."
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mari1ee
Started discussion: May 4, 2009 @ 11:15am GMT
Episode 124 - Retouching Photographs [Discussion]
Photoshop can be used to fix and enhance product photography, or to retouch someone's face.
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Cybersuchus
6 months ago
Um, a German contest to make backgrounds for Pixel Perfect? This sounds really cool, but it doesn't sound like a Rev 3 sponsored event. Anyone have any information on this?











