Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
Ben Willmore
Lesson Info
50. Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
Lessons
Introduction To Adobe Photoshop
04:05 2Bridge vs. Lightroom
06:39 3Tour of Photoshop Interface
18:21 4Overview of Bridge Workspace
07:42 5Overview of Lightroom Workspace
11:21 6Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
08:19 7How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:10 8Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
13:09Developing Raw Images
30:33 10Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
09:12 11How to Save Images
03:37 12Using the Transform Tool
04:48 13Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
06:03 14Selection Tools
05:55 15Combining Selection Tools
07:37 16Using Automated Selection Tools
17:34 17Quick Mask Mode
05:07 18Select Menu Essentials
21:28 19Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
13:00 20Align Active Layers
07:29 21Creating a New Layer
06:15 22Creating a Clipping Mask
03:02 23Using Effects on Layers
11:24 24Using Adjustment Layers
16:44 25Using the Shape Tool
04:39 26Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
04:39 27Masking Multiple Images Together
15:15 28Using Layer Masks to Remove People
10:50 29Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
10:04 30Adding Texture to Images
09:11 31Layering to Create Realistic Depth
05:35 32Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:29 33Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
10:59 34Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
03:37 35Understanding Curves
06:18 36Editing an Image Using Curves
18:41 37Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
07:19 38Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
07:14 39Editing with Blending Modes
08:04 40Color Theory
05:59 41Curves for Color
16:52 42Hue and Saturation Adjustments
08:59 43Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
13:33 44Match Colors Using Numbers
16:59 45Adjusting Skin Tones
05:25 46Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
10:52 47Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
07:53 48Retouching with the Clone Stamp
06:51 49Retouching with the Healing Brush
04:34 50Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
13:07 51Extending an Edge with Content Aware
03:42 52Clone Between Documents
13:19 53Crop Tool
10:07 54Frame Tool
02:59 55Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
08:14 56Paint Brush Tools
13:33 57History Brush Tool
06:27 58Eraser and Gradient Tools
03:06 59Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
04:17 60Blur and Shape Tools
11:06 61Dissolve Mode
09:24 62Multiply Mode
15:29 63Screen Mode
14:08 64Hard Light Mode
14:54 65Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
11:31 66Smart Filters
11:32 67High Pass Filter
13:40 68Blur Filter
05:59 69Filter Gallery
07:42 70Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
04:43 71Combing Filters and Features
04:45 72Select and Mask
20:04 73Manually Select and Mask
08:08 74Creating a Clean Background
21:19 75Changing the Background
13:34 76Smart Object Overview
08:37 77Nested Smart Objects
09:55 78Scale and Warp Smart Objects
09:08 79Replace Contents
06:55 80Raw Smart Objects
10:20 81Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
12:59 82Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
05:42 83Panoramas
13:15 84HDR
11:20 85Focus Stacking
04:02 86Time-lapse
11:18 87Light Painting Composite
08:05 88Remove Moire Patterns
06:11 89Remove Similar Objects At Once
09:52 90Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
05:46 91Replace a Repeating Pattern
06:50 92Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
10:27 93Remove an Object with a Complex Background
07:49 94Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
12:27 95Warping
11:03 96Liquify
14:02 97Puppet Warp
12:52 98Displacement Map
10:36 99Polar Coordinates
07:19 100Organize Your Layers
11:02 101Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
02:59 102Layer Style: Knockout Deep
12:34 103Blending Options: Blend if
13:18 104Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
06:27 105Layer Comps
08:30 106Black-Only Shadows
06:07 107Create a Content Aware Fill Action
08:46 108Create a Desaturate Edges Action
07:42 109Create an Antique Color Action
13:52 110Create a Contour Map Action
10:20 111Faux Sunset Action
07:20 112Photo Credit Action
05:54 113Create Sharable Actions
07:31 114Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
10:23 115Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
07:57 116Image Compatibility with Lightroom
03:29 117Scratch Disk Is Full
06:02 118Preview Thumbnail
02:10Lesson Info
Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
all right, let's work on other images that might help us really learn to think about how to use these features. Let's take a look up here and see if we can really get a sense for the true difference between clone stamp healing. Brush in spot healing brush. So first clone stamp with clone Stamp your just blatantly copying from one area and putting it somewhere else. And if you were used a hard edge brush, that would be nothing to help you blend it in with its surroundings. And that means that if I copy from this area here option clicking and I apply it over here, it's just a blatant application with no attempt to get it to look good. Choose, undo. If, on the other hand, I switched to the healing brush and I copy from the exact same area, and I apply it over here, the results will be completely different because any tool with the word healing attached to it will try to precisely match both the brightness and color of whatever's right outside the area where you've applied it Well, if you ...
look right outside that circle, you sees a completely different color in a completely different brightness. So when I click, it can still use that and apply it just fine. So therefore, if I wanted to get rid of these little vents that were in here, I could use the healing brush tool. And just to show you that it's possible I can copy up here from the red. I just option clicked all clicking and windows, and I can come right down here to apply it. Now you can see that is trying to blend in with what's on the edge, and therefore you see it getting a little kind of blurry looking in dark on the left side. That's because it's blending them with the rest of that vent. Once I get beyond the edge of event, though, it attempts to blend in with the color that's right next to it. I continue going if I want, because up on the red Object you can see the cross there of where it's copying from. And there's more space available so I can come in here and there might be enough space to get that entire that. Now, when I got to about there, you start seeing a slightly bright vertical area within my circle and you can see it over on the red object. Can you see it right here? It's like a little scratch or paint spot. Well, it's just picking up the variation and brightness that was over here and it was using it there. So you see that starting to show up all I need to do is copy from another area, come down there and clean it up. I'm gonna choose undo a few times to get rid of that. And that was the healing brush. The healing brush means copy the variation and brightness from one spot and apply it somewhere else. But when you do, make sure you match both the brightness and color. So to show you a few other examples, I'll copy from this bright white area option click, and I'll use it to get rid of this spot on the dark Red works just fine. If, on the other hand, I told it to copy from here, it's going to copy the texture that's here. So if I use that to try to come in here and get rid of something in this file, let's say going there, look, you can see the texture of the wall. It's a matter of the variation of brightness needs to be appropriate. So then we have the spot healing brush in the spot healing brush. It tries to pick where to copy from, and it doesn't try to do it an intelligent way. So I could come in here and paint over one of these letters and I gotta paint over the whole thing. All I see is a black overlay, and it's only when I let go that it decides where to copy from so I can go across each letter and see if it doesn't okay, job on occasion, it might mess up, and then I probably want to smooth it out so I can see what the edge of where kind of painted there. But we could get rid of that spot. Healing brush can usually do a pretty good job, and therefore I default to trying the spot healing brush first, because there's a good chance that it will just work and I won't have to do any additional work on the image. It's only when the spot healing brush fails three times in a row that I switch to something else. And when I switch to something else, if at all possible, all simply switched to the healing brush. And the only difference is with the healing brush, I tell it where to copy from. And so if I were to go in here and here, I can see kind of, ah, lighter, almost upside down V shape to this area. Maybe I copy from here. Option Click, and I decided to apply it over here. I'll get a bigger brush so I can see exactly where that transition into the shadow would be, so can line up out there, then get a smaller brush before I actually click to apply it. But I click and I dragged across like this and you'll see that same little upside down, V shaped bright area. Get transferred over here. But where did the color and brightness come from? Wherever surrounding this, what's causing copied from work here is the variation and brightness, and it takes a lot of time. I find for people to really get their head around that. So when I come over to an area like this and I see the shadow that's here, let's say, wanted to get rid of that shadow. Well, I would first try using the spot healing brush. And if I come over here, I need a paint across the entirety of the problem because it's gonna blend into whatever is right outside of where I painted. I don't want to blend into the dark, shadowy area, and it can do OK, but there's a grout line here that is now missing and so I can attempt to go over that a second time. Maybe had a smaller brush, and I paint right where the grout should be, hoping it's gonna bring it in. No luck. Try it again. Three strikes and you're out. That means I'm going to switch to a different tool to one. Going to switch to is the healing brush tool, and I'm just gonna look for another ground line. It could possibly go for this one, but that looks like it's dark. I want to see if I can find one. That's light, and I'm not sure if I will. If I can't find one that's light. Then I might end up copying from the one that's already existing in the same location, but I'll just look around for where all the grout lines are. And I don't see another light one. Therefore, it means I'm gonna have to copy from the one that's here. Eso What I would usually do in this case is I can attempt to just copy from here Option, click and then apply. And then once I'm done, I'll try to break it up so it doesn't look so much like an exact copy. Maybe I copied from a little bit here and then use that to join those two sections. And then I think I'm starting to look OK. I might be off the tiniest bit there, so I might need to come in and just do a tiny spit of a touch up down below, though I think I'm gonna have some issues. Let's go back to going to my spot healing brush and gonna paint across the entirety of that shadow. And the problem is, I'm gonna end up kissing up against the edge of an object that I don't want to remove, which is the edge of the stair. In any time your brush touches something just on the edge, it's going to try to blend in with it. It's gonna try to match both the color and brightness when I let go. It doesn't look right. And it tries to extend the stair over. And sure, if you want to give it three strikes before it's out, you can try it again and again each time it's gonna mess up. That's gonna happen when you come up and just kiss against an edge where you didn't want to retouch there. So what I'm gonna do here is try to isolate the problem so that it is surrounded on all sides by the proper brightness and color that should end up on that edge. So that means I'm gonna go to the clone stamp tool. I'm gonna copy from somewhere up here option clicking. And then I'm gonna come in here with a smaller brush, and I'm just gonna create a gap between the edge of the stairs and the where the shadow is. And if you ever seem to make any straight lines, that means that I clicked in one spot, held down the shift key, and I click somewhere else, which made a straight line here. I got a little over spray cell. Just grab the eraser tool and get rid of that over spray hoops. Where's my eraser tool? Oh, I'm not working out an empty layer. I should have created an empty layer at the beginning. Well, it's interesting, but it's not unsolvable as far as being able to erase that little over spray. If you click and hold on the eraser tool, there's actually let's see. It's not there. Where is it? Somewhere is the history brush. It's right here. Just above the eraser tool is the history brush. If you look at it, looks like a brush with kind of a U turn symbol on top of it. And when you paint with that tool, it paints with whatever your image looked like when you first opened it. And therefore, if there's any way where you messed up and you didn't use a layer by painting with that tool, I could bring it back to the original. Regardless, that's the history brush. Now I can continue with my clone stamp tool. I'm gonna copy from area on the right side option clicking there, and I'm just gonna again pain right up against the edge of that step. There's only so far I'll be able to go down before I bump into information that wouldn't be appropriate. I'll start copying from this edge down in here, right where that edge of the wall is. Option click. Come over here and make sure it's at the right height before clicking an appliance. There we go. Then down here at the bottom, we still have the shadow somewhat hitting the ground. So I need to get a gap there. So I'm gonna option click from the bottom edge of the wall approximately what I need. And now I think I have that shadow surrounded on most sides with the proper brightness and color. The only spot where it isn't is on the edge of the document. In often time, this tool does find on the edge of a document. So now I can attempt to use a spot healing brush to paint across this entire object. And I just make sure that the edge where I stopped painting is within that little gap that I created and that it doesn't actually touch the edge of the stairs and therefore wet it sees on the edge Is the appropriate brightness in color. Let go. It is still messed up. Well, I can always give it three strikes, which means give it a try again in the smaller area where it's messed up. But since you have to go across the entire problem, I think it's probably gonna mess up again. Ah, it's a smaller area, though, so I might be able to try that. But let's say I didn't want to do that. I'll choose undo a few times to get back to this point and all he was doing his typing command Z controls and windows to undo what I'll usually do. If it's a large problem like this is, I will end up breaking it up into multiple pieces. So I'm just gonna break this in half. Ah, copy for Neri up here with my clone stamp tool by option clicking. And then I'll paint painted in right here, copy a little bit from down here, painted in. Now this chunk up here is surrounded by the proper brightness and color separate where it hits the edge of the document, and now I can attempt to use the spot healing brush and just make sure that I end right within that gap. I created then do the same thing on this side. Don't let it touch the stairs. Don't let it touch the bottom of the floor area. It seems to be really want to be messing up over here. And if it just continues messing up, that's when you just say screw it. You got three strikes. I'm going to the normal healing brush tool. All manually copy from over here to force you to copy from there. And then I'll come in here and paint that in, and then I'll manually copy from another area. But you get the idea of how you could fix an area that is too big and complicated for the spot healing brush. Deal with by breaking it up into separate pieces and those separate pieces just make sure on all sides, you've surrounded it with right brightness that it should end up being in the right color. Ah, and then it can tackle that
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