Learning Photoshop Portrait Retouching

Course details

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.

Learning objectives
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

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Challenges
03 - Resources
04 - Exercise files

1. Clean Up the Background

05 - Removing distractions with the Spot Healing Brush
06 - Cloning away problems on a new layer
07 - Harnessing the magic of Content-Aware Fill
08 - Removing a lamppost and Content-Aware Crop
09 - Painting in a solid color into the background
10 - Improving the color and brightness of the background
11 - Fixing a backdrop with the Patch tool
12 - Challenge - Removing distractions
13 - Solution - Removing distractions

2. Remove and Improve

14 - Logo removal with the Patch tool
15 - Advanced Content-Aware Fill improvements
16 - Using Patch, Clone, and Heal for the best results
17 - Removing jewelry
18 - Removing lint
19 - Challenge - Removing a logo
20 - Solution - Removing a logo

3. Shape, Sculpt, and Modify

21 - Thinning the body
22 - Sculpting with Liquify as a smart filter
23 - Fixing clothing and hair
24 - Removing unflattering distortion
25 - Fixing the ears
26 - Changing the face with Face-Aware Liquify
27 - Challenge - Removing distractions
28 - Solution - Removing distractions

4. Improve Skin

29 - Simple skin clean up
30 - Removing acne and fixing discoloration
31 - Fixing sunburned skin
32 - Improving skin with Camera Raw and Photoshop
33 - Using the Healing Brush for consistent results
34 - Fixing shiny skin with Curves and masking
35 - Fixing details and brightness
36 - Challenge - Improving skin
37 - Solution - Improving skin

5. Remove Shadows and Wrinkles

38 - Quick work with the Patch tool
39 - Natural looking wrinkle reduction
40 - Removing difficult shadows around the eyes
41 - Wrinkle reduction 101
42 - Removing wrinkles with blending modes
43 - Learning how to use the Dodge tool
44 - Expert wrinkle removal with the Dodge tool
45 - Challenge - Shadow removal
46 - Solution - Shadow removal

6. Improve Eyes

47 - Making eyes sparkle
48 - Brightening and coloring the eyes
49 - Creating vivid eye color
50 - Opening a closed eye
51 - Fixing eye details
52 - Improving the whites of the eyes
53 - Fixing a common issue with glasses
54 - Challenge - Adding sparkle and changing color
55 - Solution - Adding sparkle and changing color

7. Whiten Teeth and Change Makeup

56 - Whitening teeth
57 - Fixing a discolored tooth
58 - Changing makeup color on the lips
59 - Challenge - Teeth whitening
60 - Solution - Teeth whitening

8. Hair

61 - Changing hair color
62 - Hiding roots
63 - Removing stray hairs
64 - Removing stray hairs on a complex background
65 - Using select and mask to fix hair
66 - Challenge - Fixing stray hairs and improving color
67 - Solution - Fixing stray hairs and improving color

9. Using Multiple Frames

68 - What to do when the subject blinks
69 - Combining the best from two frames
70 - Challenge - Improving a group portrait
71 - Solution - Improving a group portrait

10. Bonus Tips and Advanced Challenges

72 - Retouching a black and white portrait
73 - Removing and changing the background
74 - Applying creative effects to a portrait
75 - Challenge - Advanced background clean up
76 - Solution - Advanced background clean up
77 - Improving skin mini project
78 - Challenge - Improving skin
79 - Solution - Improving skin, part 1
80 - Solution - Advanced skin smoothing, part 2

Conclusion

81 - Next steps