Lynda - Learn Photoshop Portrait Retouching (w/ Project Files)

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Want to improve your portraits, but can't afford to spend hours obsessing over distractions and discoloration? In this course, Chris Orwig shares techniques that can help you use Photoshop to bring out the best in your portrait subjects in a pinch. He explains how to remove distractions from the background of an image, as well as unwanted logos, jewelry, and even lint. He also shows how to shape and sculpt your portrait subjects, improve skin, eyes, teeth, and hair, and use multiple frames. To wrap up, he offers bonus tips for retouching black-and-white portraits and applying creative effects, plus a few advanced challenges for testing your ability to clean up a background and improve skin.

* Cleaning up the background
* Removing distractions with the Spot Healing Brush
* Removing logos, jewelry, and lint
* Sculpting with Liquify
* Smoothing skin
* Removing unflattering distortion
* Changing the face with Face-Aware Liquify
* Removing shadows and wrinkles
* Improving eyes
* Whitening teeth
* Changing makeup
* Using multiple frames

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