How to replace an arm and more when retouching. A Phloshop Retouching Tutorial
From happily working to happily sharing, today we share how we retouched one of our newest images. Learn how to replace an arm, mask and paint to hide and reveal certain problems you might come across when post processing in this episode!
Section 1: Identifying the problem areas
After successfully capturing your images and copying them onto your pc, the next step to select the best shots you had and begin to retouch them. While culling, you might come across an image that you love, one that has great lighting, pose, composition and great aesthetics. You might also find one little problem like some parts of the hair falling in a wrong direction or over the shoulder or arm. This should not prevent you from retouching the image especially if there is none that you love as much as this.
Create a new layer above the original layer and use the brush tool to identify the problem areas that you find in the image.
Section 2: Copying from other images for a composite
It is often best to have safety shots of a particular pose. This way, you can sometimes have the benefit of copying good parts of the safety image and use them for your composite. Since nothing really changes (Lighting, Camera angle and pose) compositing should be relatively easy.
Copy the good parts and place them over the area you wish to correct. This copy, whilst on its own later, you can reduce the transparency and with the transform tool, nudge it to place and match the existing part in the original image.
Section 3: Layer Mask
Create a layer mask and fill it with black. This hides the copy you just placed over the area you want to correct. With the brush set to a low flow, paint with white to reveal the layer in the areas you wish them to show.
You can repeat this step by creating multiple copies and masking in different areas for a better and natural looking blend of the composite.
Section 4: Frequency separation
Kindly click the link below to watch our earlier video on frequency separation.
• When and How to use Frequency Separat...
Section 5: Colour toning and Colour Balancing
In this video i decided to create the toning layers right inside of my frequency separation folder. I felt this was important to do in this case because i wanted to really target the tones in the image and nothing else. I used the selective colour, colour balance and hue / saturation to balance out colours and make them match a little more.
Section 6: Adding Contrast and Pop
I used the brightness/contrast adjustment and curves to add contrast and form to the overall image. I also used the curves to dodge and burn the image in their existing bright and dark areas.
I also painted in white all over the image, set the blend mode to softlight, and used the Blend If: option to target the bright areas in image and make them pop some more.
I finally added sharpness to the image by using the high pass option as you will find in the previous tutorial..
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