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Retouching a Photo - Before
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Retouching a Photo - After
Experience:  This lesson focuses on the powerful retouching tools that Photoshop offers you.  When you've finished this lesson, your assignment will be to take a treasured photo of yours that needs work, and use what you've learned to retouch it, and make it really look good.

Objectives: To be familiar with, understand, and use the following tools as you retouch photographs...
Section 09-A (Monday)
  1. Healing Brush and Patch Tools
  2. Tools for Smoothing skin and pores
Section 09-B (Tuesday)
  1. Tools for Brightening teeth and eyes
  2. Tools for Softening wrinkles in skin
Section 09-C (Wednesday)
  1. Sculpting with Liquify
  2. Content aware scale and content aware move
Section 09-D (Thursday)
  1. Content aware patch
  2. Black & white photos
Important note from Nathan:
​In the example above, I have taken the retouch too far, just to demonstrate the power of Photoshop. As we talk about retouching photos, I want you to keep a couple things in mind. First, our powerful editing tools have given us the ability to create an unrealistic expectation of how people should look. Watch "Photoshopping Real Women Into Cover Models". Retouching should be used to bring out the best in a person or object (retouching is not only about people), not to change them into something they aren't. See video below...
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Video: Dove-Evolution Commercial (1:14)
USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 9 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 9 Module. See the image at right.

​If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, links to the exercise files are provided within the lesson.
Review - Critiques - Share Techniques - in lesson 8 you created a business card. In the lesson 9 discussion, I will be asking you to evaluate two of the other students' exhibits.
This page last updated May 24, 2018.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2018 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.