Advance Photoshop Tutorial- Retouching photos













Hey guys today we will be learning Photo retouching in Photoshop.
#1-Use this Free Stock Image  . get more stock here

















#2-Duplicate the Layer and heal the spots using spot healing brush tool
#3-take a new layer fill it with pure grey color #808080,and set the blending mode to overlay

#4-use burn,dodge tool,set the exposure to 8-10% and paint inside the eyes on the grey layer.
















#5-use same technique for rest,(cloth,skin,hairs)to highlight and darken the areas.















#6-ones you satisfy,take a new adjustment layer (levels) - layers-new adjustment layer-levels.and adjust the values as shown
















#7-take new adjustment layer (hue/saturation) - layers-new adjustment layer-hue/saturation- increase the saturation a bit"2%"
















#8-take new adjustment layer (curves) - layers-new adjustment layer-curves- and adjust red,green,blue channel.































#9-now take a copy of heal layer(the layer on which we used spot healing brush tool)apply
   surface blur,radius"4%"threshold"21%".now apply mask on that layer,take soft brush with color black
   and paint all the areas except skin as we need smoothy skin.

#10-take new adjustment layer (Brightness/contrast) - layers-new adjustment layer-Brightness/contrast.brightness"-25%" contrast"0%"

#11-select all the layers and(ctrl+shift+alt+e) you will get the merged layer at the top

 #12-select that layer(filter-render-lightning effect)apply omni light, adjust the intensity.
#13-use this sunset sky bokeh image on the top of all the layers,blending mode overlay,opacity"50%".
get more like this here

#14-and use the same image as a background,blending mode"normal" opacity"50"

finally we are done





















Tutorial by click3d