ESSENTIAL RETOUCHING TOOLS
KEY PHOTOSHOP TOOLS FOR PORTRAIT POST-PRODUCTION
Tools like the Spot Healing brush, Clone Stamp
tool and Patch tool are fundamental for
retouching and removing noise and dirt. Use
these tools when cleaning up the image, before
applying other adjustments. Even if you’re
working with a JPEG rather than a RAW file, the
Camera Raw Filter is a very welcome addition to
Photoshop’s post-production workflow. You can
make adjustments using this filter, creating
multiple layers of separate settings; the resultwill be completely editable. Refine Edge is a
fantastic solution for cutting out hair. There are
several ways to cut out hair, but this tool is the
most effective and can be really useful when
you want to fine-tune a mask.
Use and abuse filters, they are there to help
out, to facilitate all your work. Make several
tests with them, play with all of the filters and
you will learn a lot of things that you can do
with them.RICARDO THOMAZ
http://www.behance.net/rthomazzOUR EXPERT
Ricardo Thomaz is a retouching
artist from Brazil. He specialises in
portrait work and advertising images
and works as a finaliser, finishing
images to a high degree using his
specialised post-production
techniques in Photoshop.RETOUCH PRO TIP
Create a new layer, name it
Skin, then select the Mixer
Brush and set it to Wet 10%,
Load 10%, Mix 20% and Flow
20 %, with Sample All Layers
selected. Now smooth it over
the transitions in the model’s
skin tone.128 The Professional Photoshop Book
Post-production