Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2019 i Practical Photoshop

“Welcome to issue 101 of Practical Photoshop! If you enjoy the issue, why not subscribe and get a whole year for just $19.99?” This month we take an in-depth look at retouching, with an emphasis on the tools and techniques that will give you natural-looking results. Elsewhere, we reveal how the Split Toning Panel has more to it than you might think, and explain how to create huge, detail-rich panoramas with ease. james.paterson@futurenet.com www.digitalcameraworld.com WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/h9bbjy DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES To download this issue's files, type the following link into your web browser on your PC or Mac: http://bit.ly/pho_101 FIND US HERE… http://bit.ly/practweet http://bit.ly/pracface Also available on: http://tiny.cc/4dw9ky http://tiny.cc/rew9ky http://tiny.cc/8ew9ky…

Once the colours and tones have been smoothed out, you can move to the Detail layer above. By now the skin tones should look much smoother, but there may still be fine details that stick out – like little blemishes, pimples or messy marks over the skin. To remove these, you need to retouch the Detail layer. Look at the grey image here: this is the Detail layer with all other layers turned off. This gives you an idea of what you’re retouching when you edit this layer alone. You’re only affecting the very fine detail in the image: your edits won’t affect larger areas of tone, bigger spots or blotchy skin. The three tools that prove most useful for retouching the Detail layer are the Spot Healing Brush, the…

Photoshop has many types of layers and adjustment layers available, but there are six that you’ll find you need to use again and again. Learning how they should be used may seem a little daunting for beginners, but once you’ve got to grips with them, you’ll find they play a part in the creative process of almost every image you make. 01 LEVELS This should be the first layer you add to an image, because it fundamentally alters the tonal range of the entire image. Create a Levels Adjustment Layer, drag the Black Point slider inwards until it touches the left-hand edge of the histogram, and drag the White Point slider inwards to the right-hand edge. This remaps the tones of the image to make more of the available tonal…

Over the following pages, we’ll explore a host of tips, tricks and techniques for enhancing your people photos. From high-end skin smoothing methods to subtle tonal boosts and eye-enhancing tricks, there’s plenty to discover, and the techniques you learn here are sure to earn you plenty of thanks from the subjects of your photos. DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES HERE http://bit.ly/pho_101 ON YOUR PC OR MAC…

01 BLUR THE LAYER Open a portrait and make two duplicates of the layer by pressing Cmd/Ctrl+J twice. Name the top layer ‘Detail’, then click the eye to hide it. Name the layer below ‘Color and Tone’. Go to Filter> Blur > Gaussian Blur. Choose a blur strength that only just blurs the skin texture – here 4.5px works nicely. 02 USE APPLY IMAGE Highlight and reveal the Detail layer, then go to Image > Apply Image. Set Layer: Color and Tone, then for an 8-bit image use Blending: Subtract, Scale 2, Oddset 128. For a 16-bit image use Blending: Add, Scale 2, Offset 0 and check Invert. Click OK to confirm the changes. 03 CHANGE THE BLENDING MODE This will result in a grey version of the image displaying…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://bit.ly/8y77uyf 1 DODGE AND BURN FACES The Dodge and Burn Tools can be very useful for accentuating the contours in a person’s face, or for enhancing an expression. By selectively lightening areas with the Dodge Tool and darkening parts with the Burn Tool, you can gently increase contrast in parts of the portrait and draw attention to the form of the face. 01 CHANGE THE BLENDING MODE First, make a new layer with Cmd/Ctrl+J (or press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E to merge a copy of several layers), then go to the Layers Panel and set the Blending Mode to Luminosity. This ensures that the dodging and burning will only affect the brightness of the pixels, without having an adverse effect on the underlying colours in the image. 02 SET UP…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://bit.ly/8Lzptvh Both Photoshop’s Camera Raw plugin and Lightroom have long offered separate HDR and Panorama features, but recently a new feature has been introduced that combines the two commands into one. Previously, you’d have to merge HDRs first then stitch them into a panorama afterwards, but this handy new command performs both tasks at once. It produces a detail-rich raw panorama with a heavily expanded dynamic range, making it easier to tease detail out of the tonal extremes. In this straightforward tutorial, we’ll explain how it’s done. There are many situations in which making a HDR panorama might be a useful technique. More often than not, the point of a panorama is to capture a sweeping landscape, achieved by shooting several segments, then stitching them together. However…

1 USE THE PORTRAIT PROFILE Profiles are found in the Basic Panel in both Camera Raw and Lightroom. They offer a range of starting points for your photos, with subtle differences in tones, contrast and detail. If your image is a raw file, you can choose from the excellent Adobe Raw set, which includes the Adobe Portrait profile. This has been designed to improve skin tones and detail, and it generally gives you the best starting point for your portraits. 2 USE TEXTURE FOR QUICK AND EASY SKIN SMOOTHING Recently introduced to Camera Raw and Lightroom and found in the Basic Panel alongside the Clarity slider, the Texture control can enhance detail and textures. But interestingly, it was designed to do the opposite. As such, it can be very effective…

Now that you’ve separated the image into high and low frequencies, the next stage is to retouch each in turn. Begin by hiding the Detail layer and highlighting the Color and Tone layer. You want to smooth out any rough patches and create gentle transitions between the tones. You can use any tool you like for this: the Clone Tool, healing tools, paint brush, blur filters… Here are three techniques to try. METHOD #1: SURFACE BLUR Highlight the ‘Color and Tone’ layer, then go to Filter > Blur > Surface Blur. Choose a Strength and Threshold combination that smoothes out the transitions between tones and removes any blotchiness over the skin. Strength: 15, Threshold: 13 works for us here. METHOD #2: USE THE CLONE TOOL You can do this after…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://bit.ly/4yadgb8 Sometimes a simple black-and-white conversion of a photo can leave you wanting more. So why not try a split-tone effect? This is very easy with Camera Raw and Lightroom’s dedicated Split Toning panel. Simple options allow you to add separate colors to either the highlight or shadow parts of your photos. You can easily create all manner of subtle color tints or mimic the look of traditional analog processes. For example, you could get the look of a selenium print and its distinctive reddish-brown or purple tint. Alternatively, you could try a sepia treatment. In the analog process, a sepia wash converted a print to shades of brown, which greatly increased the longevity of the print. These kind of color changes are easily achieved, and can…

01 OPEN THE IMAGE SET Open Adobe Bridge and navigate to the set of images. Click on the first image, then hold Shift and click on the last to select them all. Then right-click them and choose Open In Camera Raw. (If you’re using Lightroom, import the photos and go to the Library module.) 02 BEGIN THE MERGE Once the images are open, press Cmd/Ctrl+A to select all the images, then right-click the selection and choose Merge To HDR Panorama from the list that appears. After a few seconds, the merged DNG image will appear in the HDR Panorama Merge dialog box. 03 EXPERIMENT WITH PROJECTION The three processing options – Spherical, Cylindrical and Perspective – at the top right each affect the way the panorama is stitched. Click through…