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using photoshop scott kelby

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using photoshop scott kelby

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published by new riders the professional portrait retouching techniques for photographers using photoshop team copyright ©2011 by scott kelby creative director felix nelson technical editors cindy snyder kim doty david cuerdon associate art director jessica maldonado traffic director kim gabriel production manager dave damstra photography by scott kelby all rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the publisher except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review composed in avenir museo sling and fg grayson by kelby media group inc trademarks all terms mentioned in this book that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalized new riders cannot attest to the accuracy of this information use of a term in the book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark photoshop is a registered trademark of adobe systems inc macintosh and mac are registered trademarks of apple inc windows is a registered trademark of microsoft corporation warning and disclaimer this book is designed to provide information for photographers about retouching in adobe photoshop every effort has been made to make this book as complete and as accurate as possible but no warranty of fitness is implied the information is provided on an as-is basis the author and new riders shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book or from the use of the discs or programs that may accompany it this product is not endorsed or sponsored by adobe systems incorporated publisher of adobe photoshop isbn 13 978-0-321-72554-7 isbn 10 0-321-72554-9 987654321 www.kelbytraining.com www.newriders.com

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to my daughter kira you ve been blessed with so many of your mom s gifts i can t wait to see the amazing woman you too will become.

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop acknowledgments after writing books for 13 years now i still find that the thing that s the hardest for me to write in any book is the acknowledgments it also hands down takes me longer than any other pages in the book for me i think the reason i take these acknowledgments so seriously is because it s when i get to put down on paper how truly grateful i am to be surrounded by such great friends an incredible book team and a family that truly makes my life a joy that s why it s so hard i also know why it takes so long you type a lot slower with tears in your eyes to my remarkable wife kalebra we ve been married 21 years now and you still continue to amaze me and everyone around you i ve never met anyone more compassionate more loving more hilarious and more genuinely beautiful and i m so blessed to be going through life with you to have you as the mother of my children my business partner my private pilot chinese translator and best friend you truly are the type of woman love songs are written for and as anyone who knows me will tell you i am without a doubt the luckiest man alive to have you for my wife to my son jordan it s every dad s dream to have a relationship with his son like i have with you and i m so proud of the bright caring creative young man you ve become i can t wait to see the amazing things life has in store for you and i just want you to know that watching you grow into the person you are is one of my life s greatest joys to my precious little girl kira you have been blessed in a very special way because you are a little clone of your mom which is the most wonderful thing i could have possibly wished for you i see all her gifts reflected in your eyes and though you re still too young to have any idea how blessed you are to have kalebra as your mom one day just like jordan you will to my big brother jeff who has always been and will always be a hero to me so much of who i am and where i am is because of your influence guidance caring and love as i was growing up thank you for teaching me to always take the high road for always knowing the right thing to say at the right time and for having so much of our dad in you i m incredibly fortunate to have part of the production of my books handled in-house by my own book team at kelby media group which is led by my friend and longtime creative director felix nelson who is hands down the most creative person i ve ever met he s surrounded by some of the most talented amazing ambitious gifted and downright brilliant people i ve ever had the honor of working with thank god for kim doty my editor she is amazing and single-handedly keeps me from visiting a nearby tower and climbing to the top to throw myself off anyone catch that vague gilbert o sullivan reference there anybody no kim is just an incredibly organized upbeat focused person who keeps me calm and on track and no matter how tough the task ahead is she always says the same thing ah piece of cake and she convinces you that you can do it and then you do it i cannot begin to tell you how grateful i am to her for being my editor working with kim is cindy snyder who relentlessly tests all the stuff i write to make sure i didn t leave anything out so you ll all be able to do the things i m teaching which with a photoshop book is an absolute necessity she s like a steel trap that nothing can get through if it doesn t work just like i said it would iv

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop the look of the book comes from an amazing designer a creative powerhouse and someone whom i feel very very lucky to have designing my books jessica maldonado she always adds that little something that just takes it up a notch and i ve built up such a trust for her ideas and intuition which is why i just let her do her thing thanks jess i owe a huge debt of gratitude to my executive assistant and chief wonder woman kathy siler she runs a whole side of my business life and a big chunk of our conferences and she does it so i have time to write books spend time with my family and have a life outside of work she s such an important part of what i do that i don t know how i did anything without her thank you thank you thank you it means more than you know thanks to my best buddy our chief operating officer and father of twin little girls dave moser first for handling the business end of our book projects but mostly for always looking out for me thanks to everyone at new riders and peachpit in particular my way cool editor ted waitt my wonderful publisher nancy aldrich-ruenzel marketing maven scott cowlin and marketing diva sara jane todd and the entire team at pearson education who go out of their way to make sure that we re always working in the best interests of my readers and who work tirelessly to make sure my work gets in as many people s hands as possible thanks to my friends at adobe john nack mala sharma john loiacono terry white cari gushiken julieanne kost tom hogarty dave story bryan o neil hughes thomas nielsen russell preston brown and the amazing engineering team at adobe i don t know how you all do it gone but not forgotten barbara rice jill nakashima rye livingston addy roff bryan lamkin jennifer stern kevin connor deb whitman and karen gauthier thanks to matt kloskowski for letting me bounce ideas off of him for this book and for his input and suggestions a big high-five and thanks to corey barker who developed the cool set of eyelash brushes you guys get with the book and thanks to professional makeup artist shelley giard for all her help and insights i was very fortunate to have professional retoucher and instructor david cuerdon as technical editor for the book the entire book is much better because of his input and i m very grateful for his advice and his friendship i want to thank all the talented retouchers who i ve learned so much from over the years katrin eismann jane conner-ziser felix nelson natalia taffarel corey barker christy schuler mary duprie kevin ames dave cuerdon calvin hollywood and the community at retouchpro.com thanks to my mentors whose wisdom and whip-cracking have helped me immeasurably including john graden jack lee dave gales judy farmer and douglas poole most importantly i want to thank god and his son jesus christ for leading me to the woman of my dreams for blessing us with two amazing children for allowing me to make a living doing something i truly love for always being there when i need him for blessing me with a wonderful fulfilling and happy life and such a warm loving family to share it with v

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop other books by scott kelby the adobe photoshop lightroom 3 book for digital photographers the digital photography book volumes 1 2 3 the photoshop cs5 book for digital photographers the photoshop channels book photo recipes live behind the scenes parts 1 2 scott kelby s 7-point system for adobe photoshop photoshop down dirty tricks the iphone book the mac os x leopard book the photoshop elements book for digital photographers vi

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop about the author scott is editor publisher and co-founder of photoshop user magazine host of the top-rated weekly videocast photoshop user tv and co-host of d-town tv the weekly videocast for dslr shooters he is president of the national association of photoshop professionals napp the trade association for adobe® photoshop® users and he s president of the training education and publishing firm kelby media group inc scott is a photographer designer and award-winning author of more than 50 books including the adobe photoshop lightroom 3 book for digital photographers the adobe photoshop cs5 book for digital photographers photoshop down dirty tricks the photoshop channels book the iphone book the ipod book and the digital photography book vols 1 2 3 scott s book the digital photography book vol 1 is the best-selling book ever on digital photography in 2010 scott became the #1 best-selling author across all photography book categories from 2004­2009 he held the honor of being the world s #1 best-selling author of all computer and technology books across all categories his books have been translated into dozens of different languages including chinese russian spanish korean polish taiwanese french german italian japanese dutch swedish turkish and portuguese among others and he is a recipient of the prestigious benjamin franklin award scott is training director for the adobe photoshop seminar tour and conference technical chair for the photoshop world conference expo he s featured in a series of adobe photoshop online courses and dvds at kelbytraining.com and has been training adobe photoshop users since 1993 for more information on scott visit his daily blog photoshop insider at www.scottkelby.com scott kelby vii

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop contents chapter 1 1 naked eyes retouching eyes increasing contrast in the iris 2 darkening the outer rim of the iris 6 adding more life to the eyes 12 enhancing and/or creating catch lights 17 brightening the whites of the eyes 24 removing eye veins 32 changing eye color 35 reducing dark circles under eyes 38 making eyes larger or smaller 42 swapping one eye for the other 49 enhancing eyelashes 57 creating beautiful eyebrows 68 making fuller eyebrows 75 darkening the eyebrows 79 sharpening eyes to make them sparkle 81 chapter 2 85 under my skin retouching skin removing blemishes 86 how to avoid plastic-looking skin 89 basic quickie skin softening 90 softening skin while retaining texture 96 softening skin adding texture back in 102 high pass skin softening 108 softening skin using channels 113 reducing or removing wrinkles 119 removing hot spots 127 balancing skin tones 131 reducing stubble 136 applying digital makeup 140 creating porcelain-looking skin 151 sharpening portraits 160 chapter 3 169 face to face reshaping facial features reshaping the face and head 170 making features more symmetrical 176 sculpting the face by dodging burning 184 viii

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop contents chapter 4 191 hair retouching hair adding highlights to hair 192 removing stray hair strands 196 fixing gaps in hair 204 changing hair color 209 darkening a part line 214 hiding roots 217 chapter 5 223 lipps inc retouching the lips and mouth making lips larger 224 creating glossy lips 227 applying or tweaking lipstick 232 changing the shade of lip color 236 repairing teeth 243 whitening teeth and reducing yellowing 252 chapter 6 259 slim shady slimming and trimming overall slimming 260 slimming one person in a group shot 263 reducing a double chin thinning the face 266 thinning arms or legs 271 getting great abs 280 fixing clothes lumps bagging folds 285 chapter 7 259 taking five my 5 15 and 30-minute retouches retouching checklist 294 my five-minute retouch 296 my 15-minute retouch 310 my 30-minute retouch 324 index 343 ix

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop seven things you ll wish you had known before reading this book it s really important to me that you get a lot out of reading this book and one way i can help is to get you to read these seven quick things about the book that you ll wish later you knew now for example it s here that i tell you about where to download something important and if you skip over this eventually you ll send me an email asking where it is but by then you ll be really aggravated and well it s gonna get ugly we can skip all that and more if you take two minutes now and read these seven quick things i promise to make it worth your while #1 this book was written for photographers not photo retouchers most photographers aren t able to send their images out to a full-time high-end retoucher so we wind up doing our own portrait retouching in photoshop that s exactly who i wrote this book to help photographers who want better faster more realistic results from their own portrait retouching the key word here is photographers this isn t a book to learn how to become a high-end portrait retoucher which is a very hard job done by highly skilled and very patient professionals who take whatever time and steps are necessary to create absolutely perfect images i have immense respect for these folks who spend an average of four hours on a retouch and as much as two to three days on a single cover image however as photographers we usually don t get paid for the retouching part of our jobs so we need to get back to shooting as quickly as possible that s why i only focus on teaching you the fastest easiest techniques to get your retouching done in as little time as possible that means doing things that some high-end retouchers would definitely wrinkle their brow over but when you make your living from shooting you need to get back to shooting that s what this book is about quick efficient techniques for great-looking natural retouches that make you and your subject look great x seven things you ll wish you had known ©istockphoto/gchutka

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop #2 download the practice images so you can follow right along with me i ve made all of the photos i used here in the book available for you to download so you can follow right along with me as we work for this book though i added something extra a second practice file so you can try the same technique you just learned on a totally different image with retouching it s the repetition that builds your speed so this is another way for you to take what you ve just learned and apply it somewhere else you can download the images at www.kelbytraining.com/books /retouching see this is one of those things i was talking about that you d miss if you skipped this and went right to chapter 1 #3 you don t have to read this book in order i designed this book so you can turn right to the retouching technique you want to learn and start there i explain everything as i go step by step so if you want to learn how to sharpen your subject s eyes just turn to page 81 and in a couple of minutes you ll know how seven things you ll wish you had known xi

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop #4 the intro pages at the beginning of each chapter are not what they seem the chapter introductions are designed to give you a quick mental break between chapters and honestly they have little to do with what s in the chapter in fact they have little to do with anything but writing these quirky chapter intros has become kind of a tradition of mine i do this in all my books so if you re one of those really serious types i m begging you skip them and just go right into the chapter because they ll just get on your nerves however the short intros at the beginning of each individual technique up at the top of the page are usually pretty important if you skip over them you might wind up missing stuff that isn t mentioned in the technique itself so if you find yourself working on a technique and you re thinking to yourself why are we doing this it s probably because you skipped over that short intro #5 i included a chapter on my own start-to-finish retouching workflows but don t read it yet at the end of the book i included a special chapter detailing my retouching workflows for a 5-minute 15-minute and 30-minute retouch but please don t read it until you ve read the rest of the book first because it assumes that you ve read the book already and understand the basic concepts so it doesn t spell everything out or they would be really really long drawn-out workflows in this chapter i refer back to things you ve already learned and if you haven t learned them well you ll get kinda stuck there so do yourself a favor read the first six chapters first then do the workflows xii seven things you ll wish you had known

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop #6 do i need to do all this stuff absolutely not in fact the goal is to do as little as possible and be as subtle as possible so if you can finish off an image with just two or three techniques from the book that s fantastic if you find yourself using 20 or more techniques maybe it s time to find some better looking subjects kidding just a joke i just don t want you to think that you have to apply everything in this book to every photo start by evaluating the image and what needs to be done i always start by looking at the image and asking myself what do i wish here was different for example i wish his teeth weren t yellow and that he didn t have that big mole on his neck and all those stray hairs across his face then you turn to the pages with those techniques and apply just the ones you need retouching is one of those less is more things #7 i made you a retouching checklist one of the things photographers ask me the most is how do you know what to retouch so i made you a checklist of things to look for now you don t have to do all the things on the checklist in fact if you do perhaps retouching shouldn t be your biggest concern but at least you ll have a list to make sure that nothing that needs to be retouched slips by you i put this checklist right before the workflow chapter that s at the end of the book you ll find it on page 294 also i took it a step further by creating a custom photoshop panel so you won t even have to pull out the book the panel will be right inside photoshop you can download it at www .kelbytraining.com/books/retouching see i told ya i d make reading this worth your while seven things you ll wish you had known xiii

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professional portrait retouching techniques using photoshop xiv

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