Repair Images in Photoshop
This excerpt is from Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop. Used by permission of Focal Press. Copyright © 2009. Part of the Creative Edge Photoshop Resources Page.
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In this book excerpt, two experts share their favorite retouching techniques, some of which have never before been demonstrated or published. Some of these techniques are quite involved, while others are quite simple.
Here are some of the techniques you’ll learn:
– Healing brush strategies
– Adding lens ?are
– Simulating ?lm grain
– Removing foreground objects
– Layer blending to remove tourists
– Merging objects with displace distortion
– Creating a spotlight effect
– Adding lightness and contrast to the eyes
– Repair work using a copied selection
– Removing stray hairs
– Tidying hair against a busy backdrop
– Coloring hair roots
– Beauty skin retouching
– Retouching portraits
– Removing re?ections from glasses
– Vanishing Point correction
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This article was first published on October 11, 2010
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Just because you can doesn’t mean a final result that eliminates contour, rounding and the shape of eye sockets will do your subject justice. Style, personality and purpose have got to come in here somewhere. Look again at the anesthetized male face which ends up with a generic appearance. This heavy a hand at retouch is ok as an exercise, but unless your guy aims to be a Ken and Barbie look alike too much removal is just that – too much.