Retouching eyes with a little bit of fakery in Photoshop

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107 lessons / 16 hours 21 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Course Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Photoshop  - this is the Advanced Photoshop course.

This course is not for people new to Photoshop. This is for people who already know the fundamentals. It is for people who have their own ways of doing things but believe there really is a better, faster way to work. 

We will start by learning the best selection techniques available. I promise, by the end of the first section what took you 30mins to mask will now take you 30 seconds. 

What am I going to get from this course?
  • 13+ Hours of content!
  • 10+ Interactive exercises
  • 68 downloadable resources
  • You'll learn the best selection and masking techniques
  • You'll know how to fix images that look 'hard to fix'
  • You'll master advanced levels and curves tricks, specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colors
  • You'll learn how to enlarge images without distortion and what to do when things go wrong
  • You'll know how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images
  • My favourite: You'll master the ability to distort, bend and reshape images
  • Lets look at how current trending styles are super easy to duplicate
  • You will become a type nerd. We'll use font pairing in Typekit. We'll also use Photoshop's ability to guess fonts
  • Your Artboards skill will be mastered
  • A master of retouching, you will become!
  • You'll learn to edit videos in Photoshop, who'd have thought?
  • We'll also create awesome cinemagraphs, AKA: Moving pictures!
  • You'll learn to master 3D in Photoshop!
  • You'll learn lots about professional, reusable mockups, techniques and shortcuts!

Here's some of the things we'll be doing in this course:
We will correct 'hard to fix' images and learn what to do with blurry images. We will master Advanced Levels & Curves tricks and will work specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colours. 

You will learn how to enlarge images without distorting them and also, what to do when things go wrong. 

We will learn how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images. My personal favourite section will show you how to distort, bend & reshape images.

We will look at how current trending visual styles are easily created, duotones, glitches and orange/teal colour grading.

We get 'type nerdy' and use font pairing in Typekit. We will use Photoshop to identify the fonts used in an image and learn how to work with hidden glyphs & ligatures as well as variable & open type fonts.

You will master artboards while you are learning how to make easily updatable multiple sized social media & ad banner graphics. 

There is a big section on advanced retouching techniques, advanced healing, advanced cloning & patching. 

You will learn how to edit videos in Photoshop. We will also animate static images creating parallax videos plus the very cool cinemagraphs sometimes called 'living pictures' - great for social media. 

You will learn to master 3D in photoshop. We will finish off the course with professional, reusable mockup techniques & shortcuts. 

This course has a strong focus on workflow. We use real world, practical projects and show you the professional techniques and shortcuts which will save you hours using Photoshop. Throughout the course I have many class exercises for you to use in order to practice your skills. 

Who am I? 
As well as being an Officially Certified Expert by Adobe, I’m photoshop guru and user with 18 years Photoshop experience. I make tutorial videos directly for Adobe and will again this year be presenting a seminar on  Photoshop at Adobe’s 20 thousand attendee strong Max Conference.  

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down and went through the updates in Photoshop, let this course be your one stop professional development and upgrade path.   

Even if you consider yourself a heavy user, I promise there will be things in here that will blow your Photoshop mind. Sign up now!

Course duration 13 hours 45 mins + your study.



Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi there, in this video we are going to retouch the eyes with, I'm going to say medium faking. We're going to add all this lovely detail into the eye. We know it's probably there, but it's milky and gray in the actual photograph. Let's look at how to create this now in Photoshop. 


First thing is, if you're working through the tutorials, you can save and close the last one, it will save as a PSD. What I want to do is just reopen the JPG again. So from '10 Retouching', open up 'Eyes 1'. And we're back here. So what we want to do is we want to grab the 'Adjustments Panel', and we're going to use 'Levels'. What we really want to do is, we're not worried too much about the rest of the document, we're just kind of zooming in on the eyes here, we want to enhance the eyes. And when I say enhance, we're not here to make them perfect. We just want more color out of it. Just a richer, lighter color. Even a bit extreme. So we're not worried about this, we're just getting some, let's have a look, on, off. Just a lot more light here in the eyes. 


Next we want to do is, I want to remove this mask. You can click on the mask and just say, 'Invert' it. So I'm not really removing it, we're just painting it all in with black. And what we want to do is, with our 'Brush Tool', have white as the foreground color. And in terms of the size, it's going to get super small and super soft. So mine is 5 pixels, hardness of 0. Let's turn down the Opacity a bit. When I say a bit, a lot, I'm going to zoom in. What we want to do now is draw in the little lines that appear in her eyes. Even that's too thick. So I'm going to go down even smaller, 2 pixels, it will depend on your image. Something small like that. Because what we're trying to do, I'll show you this example. You can see this, kind of gross zoom up of an eye. You can see all this detail in here, and that's what kind of, that kind of milky way galaxy awesome lines in here. Really help an image stand out, plus we want these kind of, like little ripples in here. 


So we're going to use this as our visual guide, because what we're going to do is draw out little lines. And once you get started, it's going to look a bit weird, and you're like, "There's no way this is going to work." But keep building it up. What you'll find, if you're like me, I can draw down fine, drawing up this way, it's a bit kind of weird. So what you can do is hold down the 'R' key, hold it, hold it, click and drag, let go of it. And it means you can kind of just work around this eye, in what's maybe just a bit more natural selection. Don't worry if it's not all perfect, because there's kind of cross hatching loopy stuff. It is fine, plus we're going to turn it off a little bit, lower it down later on. 


So what we're doing really is, we're not really drawing on it, we're just showing through in our mask, if I 'Option' click the mask, or 'Alt' click the mask, we're just making little holes in it so we can see through. If I disable it, this kind of bright area. That's what makes it look a little bit more natural than maybe just painting with the Dodge Tool. So keep going. Just keep overlapping, working your way around. R key, if you want to get rid of it, you don't like the rotation anymore, 'Esc' key kind of gets it back to square one. R key again. What I'm going to try and do now, is I'm going to try and do some of those little loops. 


Now I'm using my mouse mainly because, if I use the Wacom, it comes out a lot better, and often people aren't using like a tablet. Tablet, the nice thing about it is that you'll end up having a little bit, these are quite like fat lines, or at least they're not tapered at the end. So if you're using a Wacom tablet you'll end up with just kind of nicer tapered line. So if you are using a Wacom, you might find your result a little bit nicer. You can start to see, it's getting there. I'll hit 'Esc'. There's a few little bits around the outside here that I need to remove. Got a bit crazy with it, so with the mask selected, I have black as my foreground color, I'm just going to paint these out. So it's not coming over the edges here. Not realistic. 


Now we're doing with lighter colors, you can do the same thing. You can grab, in 'Adjustments Layer', I'm going to turn this one off. Go to 'Levels', and in this one I'm going to darken it down, and do the same thing, click on the 'Mask', 'Invert' it. I'm going to turn the other layer back on, with this one on the top, I've got my layer selected, I'm just going to paint in some of the darker bits. Same thing, same sort of brush. What did I have? 2, 3 pixels? Can't remember. Make sure white's your foreground color, and just kind of paint in a few of these other bits. I'm going to raise opacity of mine to maybe 60%. Maybe some shorter little lines. Zoom out a little bit. What do you think? It's kind of cool. So turn these off, turn these on. This goes into my little bit of fake, but clear conscience retouching. They're probably in there. I just kind of brought them out, you can see my terrible drawing. Actually kind of adds to this effect. 


What I might do just to finish it up is, Background Layer, I'm going to duplicate it, because I'm going to do some dodging on this. Dodging has to happen on the pixels. It's destructive, so I'm going to do it on its own layer. So 'Dodge Tool', like in the last one, I'm going to just enhance these a bit. I'm set to Midtones, it's not what I want. I want to grab the highlights. I got my exposure down quite low, and I'm just going to pop these up a little bit. Same with the eyes, not much. Actually these need to be Midtones, because they're quite gray, they're not operating, we know they're white, but Photoshop sees them. It's kind of Midtones, do the same over here, just a little bit. Same for that. Maybe switch to the Burn Tool. And I am going to burn the Iris. 


You'll see that we don't have it over here so I'm going to grab both these layers. I'm going to hold down my-- I'm going to go to my 'Move Tool'. Hold down my 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC to duplicate them. And you can see, I'm just moving the mask which is quite cool. So even though this side here is a lot darker, it's not bringing all these light bits, it's just bringing the mask across, showing through the darker version of the side, quite realistic if you ask me. You could go and redo it for this side as well if you wanted. If you felt like there was some repeating bits, that were quite obvious. I think it's not, I think it's fine. So let's compare it. Let's look at the Background Layer here. Let's hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC, and it just turns them all off except for this one, and all back on, all on, all off. 


So get this eye especially, my favorite eye, it's the good eye. What I might do with the dodging there, always go too far, just lower it down a bit. On, off, a bit nicer. Click again, 'Option' or 'Alt', click this. I'm happy with that, if you're not happy with that, we're going to steal a trick from the last tutorial. So just a new layer on top of everything else. Let's call this one 'Eye Color'. I'm just going to use our 'Blending Mode' again. So 'Brush Tool', I've picked a, color for the eyes, it can be a different color. I was going to use the same color, brown. Turn my Opacity up. Make sure that edges of your brushes are kind of fuzzy, so you don't get into the whites of the eyes. 


You can color it all in, it's pretty basic. Wow, pretty simple tool to do. I'm not changing the color, you could totally change the color if you were using green or blue. Now the trick is to find a believable Blending Mode. Like we did before, 'Move Tool', hold 'Shift', hit '+', and just work your way through until it becomes like a werewolf vampire. 'Color Dodge', for something a little bit more believable. Color Dodge is working for me, it's just the Opacity. So I'm just going to tap the number keys, '50'. I'm going to come right down to maybe 30%. On, off. Now let's check it, let's hold down the 'Option' key, 'Alt' key. All right, looking cool. If you still want more, there's one more eye retouching video, where we totally fake it. It's kind of creepy, but it's kind of fun. And it works 60% of the time, every time, I'll see you there.

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