Advance your Photoshop skills by mastering precise selections, natural skin retouching, refined color adjustments, channel-based techniques, Pen tool and vector workflows, and realistic photo compositing.
Overview
Syllabus
Skin Retouching in Photoshop
- Apply advanced skin retouching techniques for advertising and fashion-related industries
- Skin retouching workflow
- Reducing and removing imperfections
- Working with Camera Raw and smart objects for skin retouching
- Frequency separation for skin retouching
- Alternatives, tools, and actions
Hair Selection & Removing Backgrounds
- Hair selection using tools and “Select and Mask”
- Techniques for improving layer masks
- Hair selection using channels
- Painting hair using brushes
Using Channels to Make Selections
- Working with Channels
- Saving Selections
- Altering Channels to improve the selection
Combining Photos (Photo Montage)
- Combining images and matching light sources
- Creating and improving shadows
- Working with reflections
- Working with perspective and vanishing point
Vector Masks & Clipping Paths
- Working with the Pen tool
- Using Vector masks
- Creating Clipping Paths
- Creating paths for selections
- Save files with paths
Advanced Color Correction Techniques & Blending Modes
- Color correction workflow
- Matching tones in composited images
- Matching skin tones
- Using Blending Modes with Adjustment Layers
Photoshop Generative AI Features (Adobe Firefly inside Photoshop)
- Generative Expand (when using the Cropping tool)
- Generative Fill
Taught by
Dan Rodney, Eugenio Solis de Ovando, and David Sellers