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Lesson 9 - Photo Retouching

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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 Photoshop's tools as you retouch photographs...
Section 09-A (Monday)
  • Use the healing brush, patch tool, and content-aware fill to remove unwanted elements in photos (Exercise B09-01)
  • Use surface blur and the healing brushes to smooth out skin and pores (Exercise B09-02)
Section 09-B (Tuesday)
  • Tools for Brightening teeth and eyes (Exercises B09-03a and B09-03b)
  • Tools for Softening wrinkles in skin (Exercise B09-04)
Section 09-C (Wednesday)
  • Sculpting with Liquify (Exercise B09-05)
  • Content aware scale and content aware move (Exercise B09-06)
Section 09-D (Thursday)
  • Convert color photos to black & white photos (Exercise B09-07)
Important note from Nathan:
​In the example above, I may have taken the retouch too far, just to demonstrate the power of Photoshop. Here is another example that goes too far. 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 Canvas Resources and Assignment for this week...

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.
View Assignment Scoring Rubrics for Lesson 9
In my portfolio exhibit, I took an old 35mm color slide that had deteriorated over decades and used Photoshop and Camera Raw tools to restore it to almost like new condition. Click on the image at right to view my exhibit.
This page last updated August 28, 2020.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2020 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.