Gnomon Workshop: Photographic Retouching In Adobe Photoshop

Gnomon Workshop: Photographic Retouching In Adobe Photoshop
with Meghan Farrell (157 Minutes of Lectures)

With this video you will learn the step-by-step process of using Adobe Photoshop retouching techniques to transform and prepare images for production level commercial photography. Meghan Farrell will walk you through the steps of retouching a fashion shoot as a basis for learning the primary skill sets to make skin and hair look flawless without looking artificial. You will learn how to retouch and maintain natural skin, hair and hands and reshape the body. You’ll be introduced to indispensable methods of using adjustment layers, layer masks and color correction. The techniques demonstrated in this series will help you retouch like a professional, whether working on your own images or for those of a client. The cutting edge techniques demonstrated in this course will help you stand out when seeking work in this fast-paced industry. Lecture notes and exercise files are included.

TOPICS COVERED

Creating Natural Looking Skin
Color Correcting
Hair Clean up and Restructuring
Using Adjustment Layers and Masks
Removing Objects from the Background
Body Morphology
Reshaping with Lighting Effects
Changing the Color of Selected Areas

LECTURES

00: Introduction
01: Setting Preferences
02: Color Correcting
03: Skin Retouching
04: Keeping Skin Natural
05: Eyes and Surrounding Area
06: Hair and More
07: Reviewing Skin Techniques
08: Skin Folds
09: Removing Objects from the Background
10: Hands and Hair Review
11: Body Morphing
12: Intensifying Objects and Shapes
13: Changing Colors of Selected Areas

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Flash CS3 Interactive Video Techniques

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After Effects CS3 Effects

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Design a Stylish Fashion Advert

In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll be designing a simple but stylish fashion-themed advert. You know, so you can sell sunglasses and stuff

1. Document Creation

Get started by finding a nice, suitable stock photo to work with. For this you’ll want to use one of the following websites:

• iStockPhoto (paid)
• DeviantART (free)
• Dreamstime (paid)
• stock.xchng (free)

I used a stock photo that I bought/downloaded for free (can’t remember exactly) from iStockPhoto a while ago.

As you can see, I’ve chosen a photo of a pretty girl wearing big sunglasses (now the theme of the design). Open your photo in Photoshop and get to work by resizing it, copying it to a new document, or whatever you want to do with it.

2. Colourise

Create a new layer (layer > new > layer) then get out the Gradient Tool. Using the gradient tool, add a very bright radial gradient onto your new layer (like this):

Try a few different layer modes and see which one looks best to you (I chose Screen):

You might also want to try a few different Solid Color fill layers, then mess with the settings for those, but this will be fine for now.

Please note that the colors that I used in the radial gradient were roughly #f743fb and #6909d1.

3. Shapes / Details

For this part of the tutorial you might want to hide the layer we previously made (the gradient layer). Start by getting out the Custom Shape Tool and finding the heart shape (or any other shape you think would look cool). Create a new layer and make a few white hearts on your canvas.

As you can see in the above image, I also rotated a few of my heart shapes to make it look a little more interesting! Finish off with the hearts by adding a larger, pink-filled one in the background (behind your white shapes).

I finished up by lowering the opacity for the larger heart shape layer, and erasing a few of the edges from the smaller heart shapes (see in the below image):

Take note that this isn’t an exact science! Get creative here.

4. Halftone Effect

Now we want to add something really interesting on top of our hearts/shapes. Start by opening the Channels tab (window > channels) and creating a new channel (create a new channel by clicking the icon at the bottom of the palette). You might need/want to make a new layer before doing this channel business.

After you’ve made yourself a new channel, get out the brush tool, and using a large, soft brush, dob a few times onto your black canvas (making sure your new channel is selected).

Now to make an interesting effect out of these boring dobs — go to Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone and use an appropriate setting (you’ll have to press OK and check if it’s good enough). Using 32 as your Max. Radius should be good enough.

Now, holding ctrl down on your keyboard, click on the thumbnail for your new channel, this will select the pixels. Go back to your layers palette and select a new/blank layer. Fill your newly-made selection in the fresh layer with the very bright & colorful gradient that comes with Photoshop.

To finish off with the halftone effect, you might want to erase the shape away a little bit, in case it’s hiding a bit of the face. Or you could go back to the channel and redo it so it’s a little more to your liking. Unhide your previously-hidden gradient layer and see how it’s looking now!

5. Image Adjustments

It would probably have made more sense to do the image adjustments at the start of the tutorial, but now we know what our outcome is mostly going to look like, we can make some photo adjustments to our stock. The main thing I did was add a levels adjustment layer below our screen gradient layer (note: layer > new adjustment layer > levels).

You may also want to adjust the photo in a few other ways, for example, you could make her lips sparkle a little more? I don’t know!

5. Add Text

This design wouldn’t be complete without some sort of text now, would it? Start by getting out the Horizontal Type Tool (just the regular text tool!) and write out some text, in this case I used two sets of text, one reading YOUR 2ND PAIR and the second set of text reading 50% OFF.

The beautiful font which I’ve used above is called Decker, and you can download it completely for free at Urban Fonts. For all of the text I used Decker Regular, except for the word OFF, which I used Decker Bold on. After you’re all done with the text settings, position it accordingly.

I’m not actually sure where would be the best place for this text. If you find your text doesn’t fit, you could always make it smaller and add a Drop Shadow to make it stand out a little more.

Additional Effects

Basically now you should get creative and throw whatever you’ve got onto the canvas, such as patterns, maybe textures, other stock photos, something to go with the theme you’re working with. One thing that I thought was a good idea was to add a scan line pattern into the corner and make it blend in nicely using the layer modes.

Just remember though, you can download the complete PSD file from this tutorial, so if there was something you need help with or want to check out, please feel free to download the PSD file. Another thing to do after you’re all done is change the colors used in your Screen gradient layer, you might come up with a surprisingly nice result!

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Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days

This FREE 30 days Illustrator crash course is created for beginners interested in learning Illustrator. Each lesson will take around 20 mins to complete and you will be able to learn the basic fundamental techniques before the 30 days trial ends.

In this crash course, I will not be drilling down in details how each feature works. However, I will be covering all the essential tools that are commonly used so that you can get started and have a feel of how illustrator works. At the 30 days you will be able to and draw your illustrations, design your own logos and create special effects!

I will be posting new lessons everyday, so remember to bookmark this post or subscribe to my RSS feeds to get the latest lessons. For more illustrator training resources, read my list of recommended illustrator books & videos.

1st Week
Day 1: What is Illustrator
Day 2: Getting Started in Illustrator
Day 3: Drawing Basic Shapes
Day 4: Drawing with Pencil Tool
Day 5: Drawing with Pen Tool
Day 6: Weekend Break
Day 7: Weekend Break

2nd Week
Day 8: Using Brushes
Day 9: Creating Compound Paths
Day 10: Working with Color and Strokes
Day 11: Editing Objects, Layers & Groups
Day 12: Transparency & Graphic Styles
Day 13: Weekend Break
Day 14: Weekend Break

3rd Week
Day 15: Transforming & Moving Objects
Day 16: Basic Text
Day 17: Blending Shapes & Colors
Day 18: Photorealism with Gradient Mesh
Day 19: Using the Symbol Tools
Day 20: Weekend Break
Day 21: Weekend Break

Last Week
Day 22: Creating Special Effects
Day 23: Applying 3D Extrude & Bevel
Day 24: Distort using Warp Effects
Day 25: Applying Live Paint
Day 26: Masking using Clipping Path/ Opacity Mask
Day 27: Weekend Break
Day 28: Weekend Break
Day 29: Saving & Printing
Day 30: Final Project - Designing a Logo


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Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - Collections

• PixelPerfect
  Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and shows us the tips and tricks in 75 episodes.

  

• Tutorialchamp
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• Planet Photoshop
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• Lombergar
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• PhotoshopUser TV
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• The Radiant Vista
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• Photoshop Killer Tips
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• luv2help.com
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• Adobe Video Workshop
  Start learning about any Adobe application like Photoshop, Lightroom and all the other creative suite products. Tons of videos.

  

Dirk Metzmacher is a professional Photoshop trainer, book author and designed with over 10 years of experience. He is also a creative mind behind Photoshop Weblog, a German blog about techniques, tutorials and resources related to Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - Graphics, Effects and more

• Exploding Planet
  Some filter combinations creates the illusion of an exploding planet.

  

• Hyperspace Background
  A good background for a space battle.

  

• Fire effect
  Let a letter burn.

  

• Sony Ericsson logo
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• Realistic Sun in 5 Mins
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• Ink
  Draw the lines for clean results.

  

• Blaze Your Name
  Your name in flames.

  

• Eye
  Draw an eyeball with iris, pupil and some effects.

  

• Lightsaber
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• How to Color Comic Books
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• Explosion
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Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - You Suck at Photoshop

• You Suck at Photoshop #1
  Donnie Hoyle pulls a digital end-around on a restraining order and vandalizes a Vanagon.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #2
  How to fix little mistakes.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #3
  Donnie Hoyle makes a very big mistake go away.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #4
  Path and Masks.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #5
  Donnie’s self-discovery vacation heats up. By the megaton.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #6
  Donnie’s four day hold-up at the airport makes for some heavy duty Photoshop diversion.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #7
  Donnie Hoyle hots up a facebook photo for one lucky fan.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #8
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• You Suck at Photoshop #9
  Donnie Hoyle gets as close to a pair of tomatoes as he’ll ever get.