Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at skin retouching...

see this mark here, scissors went through my face...

I'm the reason, you do not run with scissors when you're a kid...

so before, after, before, after, it's gone, magic...

another one of my scars, from being a kid...

that bump just above my eyebrow, before, after, magic, gone, before, after...

those are easy ones, we'll do something a little bit more complicated too...

like this, this is the before, and this is the after...

before, after, before, after...

all right let's do some skin retouching.

All right, to get started, I've created an album called 'Retouching'...

and there's a folder called '10 Retouching'...

bring in all the images from in here...

at the moment there's only three because we're early on in the video...

but I'm sure I'm going to be adding more to it...

just throw them all into the album...

let's work on this first one here...

this is one of my YouTube thumbnails...

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and before we go too much further, retouching is just a word used...

kind of generic word used for fixing an image, air quotes...

tidying things up, removing unwanted bits...

often, it gets used for fixing things like skin in portraits...

but with a disclaimer that I feel a little bit uncomfortable fixing people...

making good looking people more pretty or more perfect.

If you are new to the retouching game you just got to be careful...

not to go too far, there is a time and a place...

where things need to be fixed in an image...

but let's not perpetuate unrealistic buddy types...

and perfect people, thanks, dad...

I got a little bit preachy, I know, anyway, let's learn the tool.

Let's start with, see this thing here, this mark...

again, I'm going to click, hold, and drag around, holding my 'Command' key down...

this is here, I got stabbed with scissors as a kid...

went through my cheek, pushed out a tooth...

and I'm left with this mark here that I'm very deeply troubled by, I'm not...

but let's say that I am, go to the healing Brush tool here...

there's a couple of options, in the past I would have jumped straight to this one...

this one though is new and fancy...

it's called Content Aware Remove, click on it...

size wise, find something appropriate...

I use my scroll wheel to get an appropriate size.

So get something like this, let's click 'Paint', and then let go...

be amazed, did it do, it's gone, how do you know?

Grab the Opacity slider and drag all the way down, up, down, up, down...

or use your backslash, so make sure opacity is all the way up...

we use our backslash key...

ah, look at that, it is magic...

it's new, it might not be new for you...

because you're watching this in the future...

but Content Aware was something that we had to go out to Photoshop to do...

up until recently, basically what I used to do for Lightroom course...

I just go, all right, here's a tool, kind of half works...

now let's go to Photoshop and do it properly...

now though they've brought in Content Aware from Photoshop into here...

and it's magic, you don't need to do anything.

Let's do another one, I'll use my right arrow, no I'm not...

because I'm in healing, it kind of moved it around...

so what I'm going to do is go back to 'G'...

yes, there we go, and open this one up...

I use the left and right arrow to cycle through them...

obviously, it doesn't work with the healing brush, I didn't know that.

So another one of my life scars is this thing up here...

I got a hit in the head with something, that explains a lot...

then it got infected, and I've got this big divot, and I want to get rid of it...

so just like before, healing brush, make sure on this first one here...

Content Aware Remove...

pick an appropriate size, and just click it once, in that case...

look at that, move it down and up, oh, it's too good, magic.

So you will find that...

I will be using this, it's kind of only just come out...

but I know it from Photoshop so I'll be using this 99% of the times...

I'll show you this one in an upcoming video...

just because there's some times to use it...

but this one here, this is like eraser, is amazing...

there are times where it doesn't get it right, it gets better and better...

the whole artificial intelligence kind of machine learning thing...

it's pretty awesome...

but sometimes it doesn't get it right, you can hit 'Refresh'...

and it just goes and looks at a different part of the image...

maybe a different texture, and we'll try and replace it with something else...

so you can find something that you like.

Other things I want to show you, I've zoomed right out...

zoom back in...

moving around in here, remember, holding spacebar...

clicking, holding, and dragging, this works when you're in the healing Brush tool...

let's say that you want, say another...

you don't have to like reset it, you just keep adding it...

like let's say that I want to get rid of this stuff, whatever it is, on my neck...

let's have a look out, what else can we do?

I'm too damn perfect, that's the problem...

but if you have got multiple points...

and you want to get rid of one, you can just click them and delete...

and they disappear in a puff of smoke...

'Command +', and tapping a couple of times, spacebar for dragging...

you can move them around as well...

remember, the refresh to pick somewhere else...

all right, let's look at a different image.

So let's find one we did earlier, so I'm going to...

not-- I also want to remind you of the cool searching...

so I'm not going to do, in the Retouching album...

I want to find, everywhere, I want to look for the one that has people with a hat...

and that's the one I wanted, how good is the search, so nice...

in all honesty what I did try and type in is I typed in "orange hat"...

and, instead I found a black one, then I typed in woman...

then I got every single image that had a woman in it, and then I typed in hat...

yeah, I got there, it's pretty cool.

So we softened the skin earlier on, remember, before...

can you see up there, if you're middle of a search, that'll happen to you...

I'll send my backslash to show you the before and after...

but clearly if you've got your cursor flashing up here it's not going to work...

so click down the bottom here, then hit backslash, so we soften the skin...

but there's a couple of things, so hold the 'Command' key down...

I'm going to get rid of this blemish over here...

and I can use my same one, Content Aware Remove...

appropriate size, click it once...

forward and back.

Now when it comes to this, like I'd probably be happy...

with removing that completely...

doesn't change who she is, got rid of the pimple...

but sometimes they are scars that, with them removed...

they look like a different person...

so sometimes just the opacity down a little bit on these...

so it's still there, there's the hint there, just kind of...

pushed back, the same way someone would use some...

maybe some makeup to kind of remove it.

All right, let's go to 'Fit'...

and this is where you can run into trouble...

you can decide, I'll just get

my shortcut's not working here...

so my 'Command' drag is not working, because I'm in the healing option...

so I'm just going to hold 'Command +'...

is a different way of moving, spacebar to get where I need to be...

and let's say, let's do this one...

let's have the opacity up on it...

let's do this one, and this one, and this one, and this one...

and you can start to see how we're on a slippery slope...

of like what can be removed, should be removed.

One of the troubles with this option now, is there's no like Preview button...

I'm hoping that Adobe adds, like an on/off...

you know, like the eyeball, it's not currently there...

so what I've got to do is kind of either use the before, backslash, after...

or the opacity on or off...

hopefully they've got another option here...

if you do know of it add it to the comments.

So we're going to keep working our way through...

all right, it is pretty amazing...

let's go to 'Fit', let's go before, after...

let's turn off the Show Overlay dots, before, after...

now I feel here we've kind of crept into the fixing too much option...

so we might have to pop back into our mask that we did earlier here...

and maybe look at reducing some of the...

this mask here, the amount, bring back some of the natural features here...

and some of the original color to the skin.

All right, let's leave the skin retouching there...

and we'll look at some kind of...

non-people retouching in the next image...

this one's getting a little bit long, let's both take a break...

and I'll see you in the next video.