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Using masking to retouch portraits - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using masking to retouch portraits

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- [Instructor] Camera Raw makes it easy to select a person or multiple people and make edits globally or to individual elements such as hair or eyes. I'll select the portrait image and use command R to view it in Camera Raw. I'm going to switch the profile from Adobe color to Adobe portrait and then click on auto. Now to retouch only a portion of the image, I'll select masking and Camera Raw will go out and find any people in the photograph. I'll select person one and now I can create a mask for the entire person or for individual elements such as skin and eyebrows and eyes and lips and teeth and hair, and even clothes. In this case, I want to create nine separate masks to adjust them individually. Once I hit create, we see all of those masks. And let's just start at the top with the clothing. Now we do see all of these pins here and they make it very easy for us to select a mask by clicking on them in the image area as opposed to having to select them in the masking panel. But right now I think they're a little bit distracting. So I'm going to use the three dots and just uncheck the show unselected mask pins. Now we can just see the pin for the selected mask. So let's go ahead and just bring up the exposure here a little bit just to reveal a few of the shadow areas. Then I'll move to the hair. Maybe here we want to bring up the exposure a little, as well as bring down the saturation and maybe scroll down and then just add a little bit of texture or clarity to the hair. Alright, let's select the teeth and let's zoom in to, let's say 50%, and then scroll up by holding down the space bar to access the hand tool, I'll just increase the exposure a little bit of the teeth and decrease the saturation. Then we can move to the lips. Here, I'm going to take down the exposure, but then I'm also going to decrease the clarity as well as de-haze. Maybe just a little bit more of a decrease in exposure. Alright, the iris and the pupil. Let's add a little bit of contrast and also increase the amount of saturation. Then we can move to the eye's sclera which is the whites of the eyes, and just increase those a little bit to make the person look a bit more alert. Now with the eyebrows, I'm never sure what to do with eyebrows, so I'm going to click the three dot icon and then choose to delete the person one eyebrows. All right, for body skin, I'll select that and I'm going to take the texture down a little bit to get rid of a little bit of the texture in the skin and then for the facial skin, I'll also decrease the texture, but I also want to get rid of the red in the cheeks. So I'll use point color. I'll grab my eyedropper and I'll sample this red in my cheeks. Then I can decrease the saturation, move the hue over to the yellows a bit, and maybe increase the luminosity slightly. We can also use the different range options to decrease or increase the range of colors that are affected. All right, let's toggle the preview for before and after. We can zoom back out to fit on screen and then toggle it again. And if we think we've overdone anything, we can return to that specific mask and make our adjustments. Alright, let's click done. But you can see with the help of masking and Camera Raw, it's easy to make adjustments to people.

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