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Retouching: The Good Kind

Monday, June 9th, 2008 – running time 15:44
Bert uses retouching for good this week (no acts of physical violence involved) to fix commercial pieces.

This week, Bert shows us how to use Photoshop to retouch products. First, Bert shows us how to adjust the location of a product in an image by using the clone tool and drop shadow layer style. Then, in an image with two water goblets, Bert fills one goblet with water by using another image and adjusting the color and tonality with the curve dialog box and Layer Style Blend If mode.

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Highlights
ups ( 4:44, 4:44 ) layer mask ( 9:08, 9:09, 9:08, 9:09 ) IPhone ( 5:45, 5:45 ) push buttons ( 14:15, 14:15 ) ups ( 4:44, 4:44 ) layer mask ( 9:08, 9:09, 9:08, 9:09 ) IPhone ( 5:45, 5:45 ) push buttons ( 14:15, 14:15 )

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" Hi and welcome to another episode of its approach to be very honored to show where I -- you'll kinda stuff. Today I'm gonna do is and we -- now this kind of be touching I beat myself up and a lot of people like amateur how to picked. But well do today is making them good for a change and tell you why am -- gonna do those things so it's an important opening here. But before we do this I would like to. My sponsor godaddy.com. Now if you want to make an impact on line godaddy.com has what you need. Dot com names as low -- the dollar 99 via a 199. Plus world class hosting. Asked and he web site builders and so much more plus and vertical pixels six. When you check out and save an additional 20% on any twelve to 24 month hosting plan. Some restrictions applies to decide details in your piece of the Internet -- godaddy.com. That's the two bucks at strategic. Cell. But the about -- That is a lot of times do retouched they -- said that the last time it's easy to take a pimple output and purple in that's a little difficult. No talk about today's actual commercial pieces that it was showed it to commercial pieces things that I did quite some time ago. And -- were done. It's certainly duchy is is. Commonly known to it to me -- the beautiful and magazines and so on but. We patching is a very important thing sometimes just to make the product right maybe just in the shooting the deed noble got lost some some little thing is happening. This -- psychology to the way you present images of people don't think about that but it does put a picture there is not enough. You have to really manipulate the way people are going to -- that. What colors are you going to use as a whole class -- kind of thing -- cause he used to set a mood. How things are positioned the lighting everything will affect the viewer is very important that you want to person to look at that and it and continue look at. One of the don't go magazine and is that a pop out at them they want to see that -- is done through -- and goes right by now you wanna attract attention as a lot of things. That have to be taken into account to -- right. Now on screen right here. I've got a new product it's this little corkscrew now. This a couple of things going on it is this pouch. I'd sit in nice shot except the couch. It's that you get with the core group except the -- his way back here. Psychologically. It's removed its wait for the peace and slightly out of focus was it an afterthought it doesn't really long did you get it with a product. You need to go in there and tie in together haven't actually touch. That way psychologically it's all one thing the person seeing it was -- yeah this is what I get I get this corkscrew and this cool little case for. There's important happens I'll hold together also. That ties the picture in the little tighter which means you can take up. A bigger area and you blow it up or larger on the page or wherever it's going to appear because Hubble is negative space in between the -- and product. So did you make a much tighter crop and a bigger image. So that's going here and start doing -- touching a few things that."

" Happened in the process. I don't think the parts and moved down and in doing that. Common problem -- come on let's get a little. -- out here. And I have a pass already set up for might -- see visible path -- and -- go ahead and say make a selection. So now that I have to select I'm gonna come up against a layered new layer via cut. So now it's in its own layer right there to back a -- remove tool and move that so that it's just about on top like that. Right there and I got a space speculative right now is black because my you have background was that the black before. It's okay we're going to going to paint that in a layer behind us. Right in there I am gonna -- to -- touch. As my retouched later. And this is the pop ups so let's go ahead and call that -- just so we know what. Each item this and it is they have -- I'm gonna get my clone tool and to set up my capacity on percent. And let's make a little bigger let's go with a let's -- 45. If you go with a hundred that's a nice -- right there. And -- start cloning now. A lot of us will get crop -- has been -- tight. On the product itself but he's still want to have some nice background back there of this table pushing these out of focus so you have to be too careful. But you don't want to kind of a pattern -- when you look at the overall table is not a pattern in -- it's kind of the salt -- to replace some calls from different areas at a time so let's start from right here and start cloning down into this area here. Make sure that you have. All layers selected up there of it was having a second ago because there is nothing that -- have nothing to nothing. I got all the layers now and line and -- again that put them here and I start pulling down here and there would see that it's. IPhone that whole little area out let's turn off the pressure sensitivity. On the brush that we keep that -- size -- all time. Analyst from right here this time disclose some of that -- into there and let's start from. Over here in -- digging up from different areas each time some are gonna get any kind of a pattern happening. But each time I stop with the stroke I'm actually only from a new area. I'm just getting all these nice little homes in there and I'm not actually have a soft edged -- responding in very nicely. So it to go from here and I'm just going away. They all of these tones in there and one last little batch and it's got a darkened his and its clone from this dark area. And that there. And then close it off. There now we've gotten rid of there -- now we've gotten rid of all that that is a little shadow going on here. So let go into the pouch and double click on it to bring up the mayor's styles. And elegant little drop shadow and we look at the light it seems to be coming from right this area so let's move. -- Angle -- to follow that same area. And increase the distance a bit there it is down there and the size it to softens up just like I see here -- have a visual guide as to how I want it. It'll darker and maybe things to distance a little more. Click OK now in bringing about look at the puck is going on probably things we don't want to cover the product. So I don't that we need to take the product and if an -- So. In the background that's where the product is certainly zoom in real close right here. And this little area here and maternal depart for second -- just see the tip of my courts do so would my. Open tool on Google and your start to surround this little area of the courts do just like so. And they're like that. Option changed directions like go this way go around this little move here to there own thing here and up. It is kind of very loosely going around this -- guy and then come all the way down here. Click and -- now hold down my option deeper layer command -- second to get the pointer packages. Pull that handle out there it's phone that occurred back in just close it off there's a shake. Oh my path tool artistic turned into a selection. Right there come back to matters I'm in the right there and I said Timmy did you later. -- So now I -- the propaganda department topic that they don't you layer and put it above. The couch and now it's on top and patched it that's looking good. But then that shadow seem to drive fails the outcome in the edge of the courts -- and right there on the court. It's. Shouldn't be there because should be on the table not competent court the courts above the whole thing. So when you can go -- and hide that part of the shadow but it is a layer style so want to do is gonna go to pouch. And dot adamant about they're there is that the drop shadows on the outcome appears state layer layer style create there. Click okay and NATO disclaimer there and now you see that the pouches drop shadow became its own layer. So now. And real close on this real close right there and I'm gonna take that drop shadow and give it a layer mask. And in that layer mask using black because black hides -- get a nice hard -- brush here like this and -- set to go under and just paint. Read in the air where the court is to corkscrew right there and paint this little area right here with the court is. Right there. To protect the court. And decide that. We pull back in there we see that now the pouch is part of the image it's all integrated into the product and it works."

" Try a different situation now. I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna open up this. The scene here and I get these two water -- here. Whereabouts. Now. Beautifully shot nice lighting. Really nice but. You don't really notice the whereabouts. Cancer is added in a copy people looking through the magazine that if they feel they have the really want to know about it to read the copy and and it copies they what is -- the water -- Now you want to see the minute they see the picture ads tell a story -- to say it's a -- It's not the -- war so you have the show the war and now this a situation where. It requires study reality. What happens when you look through glass -- now looking through glass received the other side it's out of focus and does the window back there and so. But when you put liquid into a glass it totally changes what you see. Through that area of the liquid the -- and back which right now the depth of field is -- in that area in back to be out of focus. But if the water is inside the glass the depth of field was in the glass all of a sudden were seen through glass will be sharp. I have nothing to work from in the back unwind after actually create. Before that what we see through that glass and also good the Wharton's refractive so that the scene will be upside down. And now. I'm not gonna go and then create this photograph no. I'm not going to do that it's too much time but I want to do is I'm gonna go and rely on an existing image like this one right here. There is seen. Effort just to what I need except."

" As you can see that's wine we need to make it into war so. First of all let's take this important he has to have a path already set up for it so monitors turn -- this election night just to that command or control click. On video path in the panel which automatically turned into -- selection and that I could take it and that's just go in there and take it and pointed to hear. And that is seen here because there was one way we don't need anymore there's a little. Bunch of -- and there it's a little smaller than we need so we're gonna gonna scale it up. So. I'm going to my transform scale here and it pulls his down a little bit and pulled the sides out. Out like that. Make that happen. And now it's filled but -- with wine has to be water so. This happens to be a CM YK file and then looking at it I happen to know that north -- as -- war on -- have to pull back on the yellow and on the magenta. So to do is gonna come over to -- Kurds. And in my curves dialogue I'm gonna pull back on those particular tones so I'll go to my magenta. And pull back. On the magenta. As you see right in there with so unhappy. And you go to my yellows and pull back on my yellows quite a bit. A lot more. There are stars -- look where it's on -- functionality of the wine and let's just pull back on that magenta a little bit more. Okay there ago some masters to have more like the war and does not reflect war. But that'll those machines in the glass and they kind of went away. So let's go back to our mayor is the layer of the liquid that's inside -- double click on it. And right here in the -- votes the underlying layer that's where these -- machines appear in the underlying there -- say don't hide these particular values and movement is slated to come see. It's -- to come up is on my little highlights. Is all these little highlights and that kind of rough edged or -- or hold down my option alt key -- the split the slider. To soften them up. Is that it is nice soft transition. Right in there like that and I click okay and now we see that the glass. Is now filled with water."

" Just -- those steps in there. What you do depends on your particular and it's just trying to give you an idea of the kind of things that are available. How things are possible kind of things are sometimes necessary to make something look right. Hey I've shown many times how to make things look bad is a couple of cases where we need to make things look right. Open learn something from that remember to place -- to sit there and play. Got all these things use them all these different told those of the layer styles go on and push buttons sewer they do. Be surprised if you find out right just that now complain if there's anything you'd like to see on the show that. Maybe -- having trouble with something you have to get on your -- send -- email senator -- and revision3.com. Also design an email. I want to do something -- background back there. Once you've created background. Design an email us of -- background for upcoming show JPEG image needs to be 1280 by 720. Design it sent to us that -- revision3.com. And that's who can come up with. You can also talk about stuff -- the show where I'll look for more episode ideas but going to pixel perfect forums add revision3.com. Slash forum. Open myself from this. See you next week."

" Hi and welcome to another episode of its approach to be very honored to show where I -- you'll kinda stuff. Today I'm gonna do is and we -- now this kind of be touching I beat myself up and a lot of people like amateur how to picked. But well do today is making them good for a change and tell you why am -- gonna do those things so it's an important opening here. But before we do this I would like to. My sponsor godaddy.com. Now if you want to make an impact on line godaddy.com has what you need. Dot com names as low -- the dollar 99 via a 199. Plus world class hosting. Asked and he web site builders and so much more plus and vertical pixels six. When you check out and save an additional 20% on any twelve to 24 month hosting plan. Some restrictions applies to decide details in your piece of the Internet -- godaddy.com. That's the two bucks at strategic. Cell. But the about -- That is a lot of times do retouched they -- said that the last time it's easy to take a pimple output and purple in that's a little difficult. No talk about today's actual commercial pieces that it was showed it to commercial pieces things that I did quite some time ago. And -- were done. It's certainly duchy is is. Commonly known to it to me -- the beautiful and magazines and so on but. We patching is a very important thing sometimes just to make the product right maybe just in the shooting the deed noble got lost some some little thing is happening. This -- psychology to the way you present images of people don't think about that but it does put a picture there is not enough. You have to really manipulate the way people are going to -- that. What colors are you going to use as a whole class -- kind of thing -- cause he used to set a mood. How things are positioned the lighting everything will affect the viewer is very important that you want to person to look at that and it and continue look at. One of the don't go magazine and is that a pop out at them they want to see that -- is done through -- and goes right by now you wanna attract attention as a lot of things. That have to be taken into account to -- right. Now on screen right here. I've got a new product it's this little corkscrew now. This a couple of things going on it is this pouch. I'd sit in nice shot except the couch. It's that you get with the core group except the -- his way back here. Psychologically. It's removed its wait for the peace and slightly out of focus was it an afterthought it doesn't really long did you get it with a product. You need to go in there and tie in together haven't actually touch. That way psychologically it's all one thing the person seeing it was -- yeah this is what I get I get this corkscrew and this cool little case for. There's important happens I'll hold together also. That ties the picture in the little tighter which means you can take up. A bigger area and you blow it up or larger on the page or wherever it's going to appear because Hubble is negative space in between the -- and product. So did you make a much tighter crop and a bigger image. So that's going here and start doing -- touching a few things that."

" Happened in the process. I don't think the parts and moved down and in doing that. Common problem -- come on let's get a little. -- out here. And I have a pass already set up for might -- see visible path -- and -- go ahead and say make a selection. So now that I have to select I'm gonna come up against a layered new layer via cut. So now it's in its own layer right there to back a -- remove tool and move that so that it's just about on top like that. Right there and I got a space speculative right now is black because my you have background was that the black before. It's okay we're going to going to paint that in a layer behind us. Right in there I am gonna -- to -- touch. As my retouched later. And this is the pop ups so let's go ahead and call that -- just so we know what. Each item this and it is they have -- I'm gonna get my clone tool and to set up my capacity on percent. And let's make a little bigger let's go with a let's -- 45. If you go with a hundred that's a nice -- right there. And -- start cloning now. A lot of us will get crop -- has been -- tight. On the product itself but he's still want to have some nice background back there of this table pushing these out of focus so you have to be too careful. But you don't want to kind of a pattern -- when you look at the overall table is not a pattern in -- it's kind of the salt -- to replace some calls from different areas at a time so let's start from right here and start cloning down into this area here. Make sure that you have. All layers selected up there of it was having a second ago because there is nothing that -- have nothing to nothing. I got all the layers now and line and -- again that put them here and I start pulling down here and there would see that it's. IPhone that whole little area out let's turn off the pressure sensitivity. On the brush that we keep that -- size -- all time. Analyst from right here this time disclose some of that -- into there and let's start from. Over here in -- digging up from different areas each time some are gonna get any kind of a pattern happening. But each time I stop with the stroke I'm actually only from a new area. I'm just getting all these nice little homes in there and I'm not actually have a soft edged -- responding in very nicely. So it to go from here and I'm just going away. They all of these tones in there and one last little batch and it's got a darkened his and its clone from this dark area. And that there. And then close it off. There now we've gotten rid of there -- now we've gotten rid of all that that is a little shadow going on here. So let go into the pouch and double click on it to bring up the mayor's styles. And elegant little drop shadow and we look at the light it seems to be coming from right this area so let's move. -- Angle -- to follow that same area. And increase the distance a bit there it is down there and the size it to softens up just like I see here -- have a visual guide as to how I want it. It'll darker and maybe things to distance a little more. Click OK now in bringing about look at the puck is going on probably things we don't want to cover the product. So I don't that we need to take the product and if an -- So. In the background that's where the product is certainly zoom in real close right here. And this little area here and maternal depart for second -- just see the tip of my courts do so would my. Open tool on Google and your start to surround this little area of the courts do just like so. And they're like that. Option changed directions like go this way go around this little move here to there own thing here and up. It is kind of very loosely going around this -- guy and then come all the way down here. Click and -- now hold down my option deeper layer command -- second to get the pointer packages. Pull that handle out there it's phone that occurred back in just close it off there's a shake. Oh my path tool artistic turned into a selection. Right there come back to matters I'm in the right there and I said Timmy did you later. -- So now I -- the propaganda department topic that they don't you layer and put it above. The couch and now it's on top and patched it that's looking good. But then that shadow seem to drive fails the outcome in the edge of the courts -- and right there on the court. It's. Shouldn't be there because should be on the table not competent court the courts above the whole thing. So when you can go -- and hide that part of the shadow but it is a layer style so want to do is gonna go to pouch. And dot adamant about they're there is that the drop shadows on the outcome appears state layer layer style create there. Click okay and NATO disclaimer there and now you see that the pouches drop shadow became its own layer. So now. And real close on this real close right there and I'm gonna take that drop shadow and give it a layer mask. And in that layer mask using black because black hides -- get a nice hard -- brush here like this and -- set to go under and just paint. Read in the air where the court is to corkscrew right there and paint this little area right here with the court is. Right there. To protect the court. And decide that. We pull back in there we see that now the pouch is part of the image it's all integrated into the product and it works."

" Try a different situation now. I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna open up this. The scene here and I get these two water -- here. Whereabouts. Now. Beautifully shot nice lighting. Really nice but. You don't really notice the whereabouts. Cancer is added in a copy people looking through the magazine that if they feel they have the really want to know about it to read the copy and and it copies they what is -- the water -- Now you want to see the minute they see the picture ads tell a story -- to say it's a -- It's not the -- war so you have the show the war and now this a situation where. It requires study reality. What happens when you look through glass -- now looking through glass received the other side it's out of focus and does the window back there and so. But when you put liquid into a glass it totally changes what you see. Through that area of the liquid the -- and back which right now the depth of field is -- in that area in back to be out of focus. But if the water is inside the glass the depth of field was in the glass all of a sudden were seen through glass will be sharp. I have nothing to work from in the back unwind after actually create. Before that what we see through that glass and also good the Wharton's refractive so that the scene will be upside down. And now. I'm not gonna go and then create this photograph no. I'm not going to do that it's too much time but I want to do is I'm gonna go and rely on an existing image like this one right here. There is seen. Effort just to what I need except."

" As you can see that's wine we need to make it into war so. First of all let's take this important he has to have a path already set up for it so monitors turn -- this election night just to that command or control click. On video path in the panel which automatically turned into -- selection and that I could take it and that's just go in there and take it and pointed to hear. And that is seen here because there was one way we don't need anymore there's a little. Bunch of -- and there it's a little smaller than we need so we're gonna gonna scale it up. So. I'm going to my transform scale here and it pulls his down a little bit and pulled the sides out. Out like that. Make that happen. And now it's filled but -- with wine has to be water so. This happens to be a CM YK file and then looking at it I happen to know that north -- as -- war on -- have to pull back on the yellow and on the magenta. So to do is gonna come over to -- Kurds. And in my curves dialogue I'm gonna pull back on those particular tones so I'll go to my magenta. And pull back. On the magenta. As you see right in there with so unhappy. And you go to my yellows and pull back on my yellows quite a bit. A lot more. There are stars -- look where it's on -- functionality of the wine and let's just pull back on that magenta a little bit more. Okay there ago some masters to have more like the war and does not reflect war. But that'll those machines in the glass and they kind of went away. So let's go back to our mayor is the layer of the liquid that's inside -- double click on it. And right here in the -- votes the underlying layer that's where these -- machines appear in the underlying there -- say don't hide these particular values and movement is slated to come see. It's -- to come up is on my little highlights. Is all these little highlights and that kind of rough edged or -- or hold down my option alt key -- the split the slider. To soften them up. Is that it is nice soft transition. Right in there like that and I click okay and now we see that the glass. Is now filled with water."

" Just -- those steps in there. What you do depends on your particular and it's just trying to give you an idea of the kind of things that are available. How things are possible kind of things are sometimes necessary to make something look right. Hey I've shown many times how to make things look bad is a couple of cases where we need to make things look right. Open learn something from that remember to place -- to sit there and play. Got all these things use them all these different told those of the layer styles go on and push buttons sewer they do. Be surprised if you find out right just that now complain if there's anything you'd like to see on the show that. Maybe -- having trouble with something you have to get on your -- send -- email senator -- and revision3.com. Also design an email. I want to do something -- background back there. Once you've created background. Design an email us of -- background for upcoming show JPEG image needs to be 1280 by 720. Design it sent to us that -- revision3.com. And that's who can come up with. You can also talk about stuff -- the show where I'll look for more episode ideas but going to pixel perfect forums add revision3.com. Slash forum. Open myself from this. See you next week."

tylerhowarth

Started discussion: June 9, 2008 @ 1:26pm GMT

Episode 86 - Retouching: The Good Kind [Discussion]

Bert uses retouching for good this week (no acts of physical violence involved) to fix commercial pieces.

Watch and Download the Episode Here!

Smeerkaas
about 1 year ago
Nice episode. Too bad the whole segment with the water goblet is yet another copy & paste tutorial from a previous episode.
Johnosullivan
about 1 year ago
In reply to Smeerkaas:
Nice episode. Too bad the whole segment with the water goblet is yet another copy & paste tutorial from a previous episode.


Yeah, I niticed the copy and paste too(Episode 54 - Retouching). I have to say, I look forward all week to bert's tutorials, but this week I was disappointed with the overall show. The initial tutorial was basic stuff that he had covered in previous eps (i.e. seperating the layer style into its own layer), and as we said, the second tutorial was a complete copy and paste. Even the images he used were the same. Poor overall episode
Brayden
about 1 year ago
With the exception of the corkscrew bit, this just seemed to be a rehash of an earlier episode.
xfuuey
about 1 year ago
i thought it was a pretty good episode. .. good for some bad for others i guess
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