What Do I Need to Retouch Portraits?
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 7 Minutes
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
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Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 17: What Do I Need to Retouch Portraits? will explain a little about the Red-eye removal tool, Healing brushes, the Mixer Brush tool, and how to use them to retouch your photographs. Let’s get started!
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Really helpful for us..thumbs up
Ha! Thought the “Final Product” was supposed to be a before & after kind of thing. I laughed.
Final product: before and after? :D Haha
Thanks for this tutorial !
Hi Martin,
All of your videos are superb. Thank you so much. I just started learning photoshop.
Which software do you use to capture your videos?
Camtasia Studio is a great choice
Brilliant as usual, thanks.
Thanks for another great tutorial, as always you explain things very well!
Why all of a sudden are these videos not working for me? I have watched all of them up to the pen basix, and suddenly none of them will display in my browser. I have been greatly enjoying this series and look forward to a solution that allows me to get caught up!
Internet Explorer Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
-BVB
Not sure why you would be having this problem? Have you tried using a different browser?
Have you upgraded to Internet Explorer 9? It has problems with Flash and Java. I haven’t been able to watch any videos on this site since upgrading to IE9.
I have not tried a different browser. The page loads but the video does not appear and the browser has an alert saying:
Webpage error details
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Timestamp: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:56:29 UTC
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Not sure how to help you here but I’d suggest trying a different browser and see how that goes.
Retouching photos is what I always wished to do. After purchasing photoshop, I was following your site, and found quite useful too. This article made me a fan of psd.tutsplus. Thank you guys and gals.
Very good sir, go ahead
Best regards
Aaaargh I can’t manage to use the mixer brush tool! I put the exact same configurations and it just doesn’t do ANYTHING!
I wonder whose faces he uses for this.
Nice tuts.
I also am not able to follow the tutorial in the Mixer Brush section. The video appears to skip a step because he chooses the “very wet” option, but doesnt explain why he selected a layer with a mask on it. Here is where me and Alec ^ are confused.
Yes, he has used a mask, so it is non-destructive.
Also, on the top tool bar check only “clean the brush after each stroke” and uncheck sample all layers and choose tablet pressure controls. Make sure u use the soft brush like in the video.
Make sure u choose very wet option from the drop down.
If I click on the video for retouching a video plays of National Dog Guide Month!!!!! And that happened with other Basix tuts of Martin today as well where other advertisements etc were playing and not only for a few seconds.
Again frustrating!!!!
I can’t get the mixer brush tool to work at all. It is definitely not as simple as it looks. I can not get it to paint the same way as it will only use one block of colour.
the mixer brush tool looks awful when i use it… it will only paint one color over the picture. what should i do?