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1. Course Intro: Hello, everyone. Welcome to my hair retouching Siri's My name is David and I've been heavily involved in the hairdressing and retouching industry for many years. Has my job required to announce the beauty of the hiring for the shop? Throughout my career, I gave me do Porto you to find the right work flow with the right technique to deal with any type of situation. Hi can be smooth, flat with volume free Z with different type of texture, dark or blonde. But when it comes to the retouching side, they're just a bunch of pixels. Now, mastering the hairdressing photography Give me your opportunity to really focus on this beautiful subject. Now, in this course, I want to share with you my knowledge and my technique and work filth did I used to tackle the most common difficulties. When we re touching, we're gonna focus on the cleanup foundation to really understand warnings to go warnings to stay. We also gonna analyze how we could art some elements to maintain more natural effect from her hair and more flawless looking. I would also share with you how we can copy areas to fix gaps or covering perfection and Of course, we're gonna tell you what souls we need to use. In order to achieve this, we're gonna focus also how we can color, correct and how we can change your nuns in luminosity within the hair with different contouring techniques. Throughout, the scores are gonna show you guys to give you the best of device and the best steeps to improve your workflow and communication with your clients and photographers. And also, we're gonna make sure to achieve a beautiful and flawless looking image that is not gonna always satisfy them most, especially you, So let's get started.
2. Image Analysis: welcome to the first lesson off, clean up and reconstruction. In this lesson, we're gonna analyze the image that we're working on and understand what type of techniques and workflow we need to use to tackle any difficulties we also gonna touch up or how important it is to communicate with your client and photographer toe. Understand what type of result they're looking for. Now let's move on the damage. Okay, Perfect. So this is our image now. Poor is very important. Before that, we start is to understand exactly what the photographers and the client I would like to achieve. No, I think about this image in these image. We got lots of traction, the left side instead on the right side, because a little bit more off smooth effect. No, Here we've got let of your movement. And I think this is probably the best image to showcase your different techniques to clean up different areas of the hair. Now let's highlights the area that we need to focus on. Now, let's seven. Look, let's start with the red one now. Dis Turner Air, Just which is the one that I'm just going to start to select, is the area for me. They disclosed to the skin. Now all these little bit of the hair it's gonna be be more difficult, Teoh. Retouch it Since the skin is Kwai is there's no enough So I'm gonna show you later what technique we can do now Let's leave it at that and maybe we can do We can also may be taking consideration some extra elements of the day. So from now we're just gonna sleep these one now What would be No, it's interesting to touch up these. Bet what we would do ticket from the right side. We're gonna take some elements and just move it towards the left and is where we're gonna cover this bet. Just quite knowing. We also gonna clean up a little bit ease if you Yeah, I think it's internal part should be enough. And it's gonna take us a little bit since it's quite Triki to do now the outside. Let's change, Carlo, Let's see what we can do. We've got here lots of texture. So we need to definitely tired these area up that's highlighted. Remember is always good to maintain as natural as possible and, um then in case you need Teoh bring you back some elements that we bring them back, but maintain and naturally square. Interesting. Because addressing really like that. Obviously, if your client wants something a little bit more cleaner than you clean more obviously, now we're gonna need to touch up the top. We're not gonna remove everything, because otherwise he looks to flake. Then we start to go down to the crown. And obviously remember, depending always a decline, what they would love to have. Um, Now we're gonna probably take these off a swell. This is the thing. Cool about external? No. Well, we also gonna touch up. It will be quite interesting to remove this little bit. Ah, here on the top of the French. So let's change Carla with this little bit. I think it would be quite nice to find some other information from another image and see if we can get some better quality fringe area. So that's why it's going border to speak with your photographer, see if you can receive some extra image. They're gonna help you with the retouch. This is going port and element because even even when you think about for ah for the bag. Grafton's If the background sounds lively, be different. In Parton, you might wanna pictures off just the background, which is really gonna help you to the retouch of the controlling area. And again. So this is another element. Make sure that you speak with them and understand war elements that have that can help you . Will you retouch? Okay. No, that's too much. Too little bit, I think. Should be enough where we just decided, um, war would be nice as well. He's Teoh touch up a little bit, internal part to emphasize the shine. Emphasized the shudders as well. Ah, I think the internal it's definitely okay. External us. Well, now that we know exactly what to do, we can decide obviously the technique that we need to use. Um, obviously, we're gonna also touch up thes surface area. Let's check another color. We deserve face area. We obviously gonna get Riedel. These play ends, texture, um, remember techniques that we're gonna show you, they're gonna want to be able to cover thes little areas like these little holes in case the clients requires that and this little bits and I think as well he on the top of the nice to remove some of this perfect. No, we got different elements to do, and I think it will definitely help us to achieve a beautiful um result are less jumping on the different techniques there we need to use in order to achieve days. So let's move to the next lesson.
3. Add Elements: welcome to the second less sun, adding element in this lesson. We're gonna find out how important is to communicate with your photographer and receive some extra image. They're gonna help you with your workflow and how important needs to do it as a first step . Now let's start perfect. Now the images were already being selected. We checked the catalogue to find the right one. We decide for these one. I mean, we'll be down. He's no perfect like we want, but definitely would be super easy for us to retouch. Now let's make sure we got the rapacity lower. And that's where we can overlay this new image on top of the underneath one that's moving the way that is gonna connect nicely. We use community to transport image. No, I think he's okay like that. I was gonna help us. Is thes tool appear which is gonna give us the opportunity to flood it down a little bit the top and merge as much as possible with the underneath? This part is the connection part, you know, smooth, you know? Okay, maybe a little bit. The corners? No, we tried to emphasize is still them flick movement into it. No, let's start to see with Hari looks now and in case we can always move a little bit Bring the opposite You back for the a mask on That's swapper We, Komen and I Now let's start to bring the elements off these new mosque It started painting in the areas that we need We're gonna paint a little bit more and then slowly we can start to obviously removed the extras. We're gonna change the brush. Let's make sure that we go the mind soft. Everything is unchecked flow. I'm gonna drop it too. 15. Let's start now. You need to play around with these, obviously, until you get the right amount that you're looking for. So sometimes he can, you know, even if you do a leader touch up or even a quick away, Sometimes you see a beautiful results straight away. So you need to play around with it of these Syria. What I mean is this bit, uh, something element is going porter to doing now, because in this case later, I can do any adjustment in case there is any imperfection in the color in the shadows and background. So doing these later. Peace now, You would really make everything easier than do it later of these elements starting come up from the underneath, Hold the city's okay, touch Deputies, What we need to think about it is sometimes we just need to to do it. Because if we do this with, say, five times every time with the different So you just need to find the right solution and and that's it. No. Later we can push this down on Little Bay, which is gonna be easier with the legal fight. Now, this little bit here, it's gonna be the area that we're gonna is gonna help us with. The connection, not thes, is also slowly be blurry. The image so later we can easily I think of your sharp into it. That's if we can trying to get rid of these very for maybe. Let's yeah, to be more here. Okay. Me Before enoughto Let's see if we can bring some elements from the under needs back up. Let's see if we change to be the blending. Um, no. So it's better to keep it. I them which is gonna help us, and I think by adding a little bit of shadow comes hopes I think of your shadow will help us. Definitely. Okay. No, we need to liquefy little beauties area just this little bit. I can remember. This is a focal moment to do it now, because everything will be very easy that sea or to the mosque. If he's okay, just remove some exists. Remove this a little bit. So any big reconstruction would be done. Obviously, always before before. Enough. There's no bad. I think it's gonna be definitely easy for me to manage. Let's see, with the beer liquefy No, we're doing in the mosque. Go back and select that image. You know, when we liquefy, we're gonna use them the brush and start to bring everything a little bit further down. Then later, Always there. We can always correct a little bit more. No, by doing these was gonna happen to musk. He will change. So we might gonna start to see a little bit more elements from the original image. And then we're gonna need to go back in the mosque and touch up again. See ours looking. We could see some elements from the US We're gonna use the brush groups. Let's use The white okay is definitely no 100%. Yet we still go few beats to do it. Really announcing sharpening. Play with the shadows, touch up the background and make sure that everything is natural looking. Am I gonna push up a little bit in the very and over the fringe? Let's move on to the next section.
4. Clone Areas: welcome to the third lesson off. Clean up a reconstruction in these lessons, we're going to see how to clone stamp some areas from one side and move is likely to the other in the way that we can cover some imperfection within the head. Now, let's jump on the image. Let's see what I'm talking about. We're gonna do know we're gonna cover these leader friend him. So we're gonna add a new layer. Are you gonna add an image? And that's where we go on extra image in top of it, we're gonna look the opacity down is where we can see a little bit of transparency. Now we gotta transport it to Martin is really can see better. Now we're gonna start to play a little bit around Wichita, period and push a little bit towards the left side. But the bottom side is going to be very important to don pressure too much. That's why we were just working on the top. Because there one is gonna be our reference and over blending part. We just want to make sure that these obviously goes on top of that element that we want to cover. No, that's your he looks and then we're gonna musket Roberto the mask. Let's start to bring these new elements into this. Let's jump up the floor. Let's try to bring a little bit more elements or C. Bolin is where we can see how is looking. Then we need to go back him forward until basically we happy with the resolved. We're going to remove a B of shut of here, gonna swap too wide. So don't worry if here we go a little bit further, because we can always come back with the mask, let's transport a little bit more. It's more easier to be shallow is coming back, which I don't mind. I think it's gonna help us with the blend. Keep it here. The series looking, Let's see with the B off, that's a pastie. Let's see, always looking. Bring back some shot of elements, which is gonna help us with them again with a blend also, because it's very important. This Liran fringe area no off the words, is gonna be easy for us to any touch up with colors, shudders, lives. That's why it's always good to do these as first, no human money to be a shadow. So let's bring back. And then later we touch up a bit more again, like we said earlier, is very important that you play around until you find the right proportion. Would you adding there were, you know, adding the CBOE bringing back some blonde here? No, let's see, for these internal parts we can push it a little B towards de outside to Matt. Push up a bit. Let's have a look what we've done. Bring some animals back. See the bottom area here to be a view off the mask If he is everything okay? We cant remove any bit that we don't need. We might be more here. It's very precise job. It takes you a little a little bit of time but once obviously you've done these in the right way is definitely gonna help you to make you workflow Very easy Afterwards, it would be very nice as well if you can double check with your client If they like these must have adjustment straightaway in this way in case they ask, you know I want to go back then it's gonna be very difficult for you. So knowing that earlier, he will really help you a lot. Let's check out from far before and after that. I'm quite happy with that auto part. Let's see if we can liquefy little bit the area to just give up a little bit more kink, liquefy again. Appreciate in a bit. We're gonna just use a bigger brush. In this case, I wanna move politically. All the hair two weekends. Question. Okay, let's bring some element back, see if we can merge them in. Because also, when you maintain more elements of the original image, you always gonna have a better quality results. So you need to play a little bit more. See, by bringing the blonde here back kind of help us a bit more. I got this new shadow. Okay, Happy reading Top. Maybe a little bit more here. Maybe not. It's later. What we gonna do is just maybe adding some extra in case we need, um, is where we could just go. Extra textual and sharpness. And gays. You want out? Obviously. A little bit more definition. No. Let's had to be of sharp. Remember to you download the action of the resources we maintain to level free in very the mosque gonna clipper because we're just gonna work from the underneath, and then we just drop it down. I'll probably see around something lower. Maybe then 50. Um, let's see, maybe 45 between 2025 years. Nearly there, I think looking for you. Okay, maybe what I would do. I would probably go in the mosque back in here on the very internal part. If we can bring back some the natural well original you will see later. As soon as we started to the next steps, Our important is to duel. These must've jobs. Maybe here a little bit more. That's a nice thing. Obviously, when you when you think about, um seeing the before and after you know the difference, you know what you've done. So obviously, for you always look a B a natural sometimes is quite good. That's what I would see the image day after. It's gonna kind of help. You could see he always important is to maintain the bottom area as natural as possible because this kind of blends in batter. That's why we use the to transform the trust form tool in their way. No, zoom far is where we can see. See we at the lead element plans nicely with the underneath. I think we have a very good point. Let's bring all these fixing together in a group. It's called it fix. That's what we don't so far. Now we can see there's something there is no 100% yet, but he will definitely be easier now for us to announce. But he could a little flick on this up. This is done. Let's jump to the next section.
5. Internal Clean Up: Welcome on the fourth lesson off, Clean up and reconstruction. In this lesson, we got a touch up. How important is to use frequency separation to clean up internal part of the hair where they touch the skin, how goodies to using selection and how good it is to draw her to maintain a softer feeding into the shape. Let's have a look what I'm talking about. Like we say, we got a touch up, hold the internal part. So which is all the area close to the skin now? Let's highlight the area there. We gonna focus on inside the new layer. Now, I was thinking to maybe don't just to work on the area. But we're just gonna maybe taking consideration as well. These a little bit here, which is really upset. It's very no clean at all, So I think we might gonna introduce that too. So this is exactly what we gonna do as a big, big, big chunk. Now, let's delete days. Let's move on the top period first not to do these area. I can't remember what we've done so far. Now what? We've done war to do this area. We can, um first apply an image. So between your layer applying image. Now, this is gonna be our new background image. Basically, here we can start with. Figured the separation. Now, when we started with the favorite separation, I'm gonna maintain everything on six. As the radio now figured, separations quite interesting is gonna just work on texture. And it's going to separate as well. The colors. So it's gonna be leader. Be easy for me to manage. Now the medium could be a little be higher, but I prefer to work on the level of six cents is gonna be a little bit more soft around the corners. Okay, let's run the frequency separation you confined. Obviously, the action to Dar Lord Guys, this was gonna be easy for you. Let's start on the top now We're gonna work on the high layer. The number two we gonna we need to make sure that the brush that we got selector is a little bit more working. Nice. White. This is the law number two, which is gonna be for the colors. Now when we select the brush and we're gonna work obviously with the clone stamp tool, everything is going to see on Howard Flow is gonna be quite high. And then we need to work on current layer. Now we start to basically clone stamp here is that she's closed to the air that we want to , um, remove. We can obviously work on the brush. There's gonna be big us the hair. Now, see, this little spot, obviously of dark sport, is going to be checked later when we're gonna work on the lower level because the hair is quite dark in the skin is quite white. Now, remember what we doing now? We're replacing texture from the left side. So when we always the work with the low, we're gonna be able to remove that a little shadow again. Um, obviously different type particular X that you can do to solve this type of problem but prefer working with figures separation because he's gonna help us later. And it's not gonna be a big deal for me to offer to go over again and just touch up t colors. Gonna remove also this part here from the very top close D group. Parton The headline No, in the dark part of his general copy detection on the dark area is where we're gonna be able to blend properly. Now, when you do cleaning up Obviously, uh, we need to have a big patients. Um, again, more time you're gonna take and obviously better is gonna be the result by obviously you need to take in consideration that time is money. Eso always analyzed the image, understand? War, yeasty resolved that you won't achieve and obviously, how long it's gonna take you depending of the steps. And obviously you will charge the Orion bound for the time where you're spending on the image. Now, the big reconstruction do you ready? Done as you saw took has a little bit of extra time and they will take us. Extra timers were later when we fix it. So take that in consideration when obviously you charge the prize for your retouching. Now we finished touching up a little bit here on the underneath. Now the difficulty separation is interesting when we work on the skin like I'm doing now. But when we get closer to the edge where we got shadows and I was the new detection next to it, it's gonna be sometimes it'll be tricky. So in the case, we might need to swap to the cloned stem. Let's see when we like we know McCloughan stem told. Let's see when we get to that point where I can show you it's going to take these off, Okay? No, When my you go now, here were you might need to just working with the letter B of different approaches. So we might gonna create a new layer and just work with the cloned stem told because there's a little bit is a bit tricky toward with frequency. So the meat disclosed this folder. Now are the new layer upside fall that we're gonna put current and below when we work with normal clone stamp tool. My need to slow down your flow so that would be too strong. Pastrami 50. I think it's too strong. Yep. Maybe around 15. 20. Start to slowly now. I would suggest to you when you do these touch up, let's make the brush. To be small as well is very precise. Since these very little hat take it another way to tackle it. Zoom in because it's goes against the direction. The head direction so is very annoying to toe. See, sometimes when we get to retouch when we see some of their know your eyes, We need to subbed out. Be more would be copy letter B over the hair next to it as well. Figures of racial born do that for you. And so you definitely need to use clone stamp to my latest and it built touch up. Sometimes with this little ones Takes longer than the big ones. Just be moving to show the No, let's carry on here on this side. See before No need to After the s, we're gonna jump back into the frequency. Separation is where we can carry on what we were doing here on this side. Likely, we don't have lots of happy on the face on this part. And but in we're gonna see big job underneath. We'll see when the hair is a little bit lighter. We don't have that problem off, um, shadow underneath. So it's gonna be little be easy to and quick as well to retouch in this way. If you medium is a letter to be higher, then the Sikhs that we just decide even if they had be dark sometimes gonna be able to cover, But again then he tends to blur a lot scheme when you work with your loan level when you work on the lower level. Now here we might need to stump again with the clone stamps, we're gonna flow down current Peloponnese where we can work. It is intended part because frequency not gonna do it. And then we just He took over again over my gonna take it you're putting to touch up here. What? We just fix it within the reconstruction level. Anybody's extra shirt of keep it it three dimensional effect. Now, when we think about in the high end result guys, all these little details make the difference and these is war. This is why your signature would be different in the other ones. So all this little detail is gonna really help you. And to me, that's just very easy. Cleanup is no, it's definitely basic. And, uh, not too tricky. One the difficult once gets when we got lots of texture. Um, we got the hair on the eyes which are gonna incorporate that into more of an advance course later on. Now it take off for this. Bigger he could see is just very quick when the hair is not too dark going on here. Always copy areas that is going to really were beautifully with wonder You're removing so always next to it Don't could be blurry areas on very sharp areas. Now here we can see there's more texture. He's also leave the baby hand How frequent separation as well can help you to remove all the steering baby has. Well, in case you don't want to see them in these coolness groups, No, the only Always do relax your eyes and always to come back to the picture. Maybe after coffee, because he will really help you. Because otherwise you know exactly what you're doing. Where you're taking off, everything will look cute. Who looks, look very, um, fake to your eyes sometimes also image. I thought this retouching doesn't look very good. Then you realize that nobody retouching it was just a row file and it's just your And then you understand that their hair sometimes or even some other part of the scheme sometimes they just okay, but because you just remove the to your eyes, they look very weird. So here now we're gonna in a second take a all these in different approach, but more. You can clean this little hair here before Annie's is gonna be Because where you're gonna have is more off, even canvas next to the area that now we're gonna Kovar so more you can do it in its more visas and better is gonna be later. Otherwise, if you go straight away with the big brush, then you're gonna have lots of repetition. The Parton, which is probably gonna happen later. But at least now we've got But they were more better, partner. Let's have a look Will be done. So far, much better. No, let's go back to the layer with the clone stamp. This is that. Weren't little guy here just reduce the distance and have to be more shut of? Remember, this is there that we done the reconstruction early, so obviously to be sharper then later with shadows is gonna help us to make it be more blurry. And he tried to hide that demarcation. Okay, now, maybe here this When you see this hair that looks like they're being cut it off There one is obviously for us as a retouching, is the point where we understand that there's been no retouching. So obviously, if you look it removed, the partner would be better. Now let's have a look from far. Here we go. The two litre shadows. When is where we can introduce the law frequency? Now we're gonna use the mixer brush. This mixer brush is an amazing tool. And the way I always keep it is that wet load. The mix is 100 then the floors are on to nt percent. Otherwise, when when you move the elements of colors, it would be too strong if he's the floor, if the floor is too high. So we might gonna you tend to keep the floor be higher when you're working with more coverage, when you really need to paint lots of lots of Colin to it. But what he does, he kind of move the color around, and he's gonna help us to reduce that dem occasion, like in a very gentle way. You're gonna see it, but legally known underneath this is the bit that it's gonna take us a big job to the now Let's see how we can tackle this. So we're gonna start with the selection. Um, so we're gonna need to use. Definitely the last little is where we can select all these edges and we're gonna clean on this. Now, let's go into the hair here. I want to just remove this little guy in this way is not gonna be repetitive. So go back into the film, like, which was saying, cleaner, tasty area where you gonna clone and better is going to be. Otherwise, you're gonna have too much repetition off distortions into the hair of the U covering. You can see frequency works quite nice as well on the clothes. She's quite nice, particularly if you won't remove as well. Um, like when you go crispy closer, you on Just to make them aware of his mood, there's good way as well roof from all this guy here. I really like to work with more brush to remove these days. A detail I think is gonna be easy for me in these ways. Okay. Okay, guys, in the camp, all this big one can go as well. The beauty of the frequency separation again. It's, um there are other tools that can give you this result. But I like the combination having the the separation off the texture and the color. Um, because sometimes, you know, you tried to copy and paste some areas, then you have the color there is just give you troubles. Then you need to fix the color. So instead, now, you know, adding the texture and then with the color, can deal later with no problem, just with the law and the mixer brush, which is gonna push the color in different direction. Whatever you want it very quickly. I used a lot in the beginning. I was no using their because you're really understood. Didn't really understand exactly how he was working. But now I'm more into it. I can't really work without. Okay. Now I think it's time to, let's see from far maybe just such more. You know, Carlos, does the dark shadow set to coming up? Let me see. Be more from far. We can start to go to the next session
6. Internal Clean Up part 2: first to start to do the selection with the last little Now we deluxe. It'll we need to do it's months ain't working exactly on the edge that we have And we're gonna keep out all these flyways and soft texture because the one maintain and harsh edge and then later I rather prefer harding some hair. See this part here? We're gonna just full of it. I prefer to add somehow later because at least I can decide the amount off flyways that I want. Now, this is kind off. Obviously you want to maintain a natural. So by maintaining some natural texture off the original image, he will give you them off self defeating. But when he gets very messy, if you you got so much texter in so much, all that has to cross each other there is very difficult for you to what she were very soft . The result. So I rather prefer them to keep their harsh and then later blurry. And I think a B o hare done dealing with all this micro micro half so we can keep going. Well, don't him. And now we need to decide what type of direction we want to go back, Sissy. Here we go. This dark hand on. Let me see if I can go towards thes side. No, follow it. This me too. Don't. Maybe that would be this way. See, I'm working around the shadows to maintain it. I think once we go read over the underneath, maybe I could be more further down once we removed all the underneath these shutters gonna help us to make you look be more natural because that's the thing we need to make sure that we select there is that once is gone. Everything look like Okay, he wasn't either. So that's that's the feeling. So we're gonna just no work across or the edge of the dress All this leader head that we left out, then we're gonna clean them afterwards. You can also, once you don't hold your selection to maintain this election with a little be off, fade into it by changing your, um but adding, like one or two levels of big social fade. But I nobody just keep him harsh. It's up. I prefer to wanting to be more hard. And then later I stuff in here. No, we're gonna keep going up. Here we go. All this selection again? In the beginning, I was just thinking to clean up all these soft, um, areas. But I thought it would be nice for you guys to see maybe by removing a big piece, which again is quite offset. Maybe you could not, um, take out most off this lesson in particular from this tool. Now, we're gonna save these, um, leader path in his way. We can always go back. No gonna click on it, and then we're gonna just name puffs. Okay, Now we're gonna select it in this way is gonna be easy for us, and we're gonna go back to the layers now, this is basically the selection we're gonna hide. It is where we don't have told this little bits around common age. Now we go back, close them toe flow high, Carter layer working on the high frequency. Now we start still small justices, lowly, the cleaning up. We always tried to get exactly the area of skin these next to this past. We don't want to ruin it. We don't want to look full quote and awful again. We're creating harsh edge. Later, we're gonna stuff now? No, just clean around here. I'm trying to keep some element of natural. They want to remove all the spots and everything. Just because he will look too hopeful seeing or we start to see big shadows from the hair that we're taking off. Since we're taking big chunks, these, um, each other's We're going to remove a later with the on the law frequency. Here we maintain these Dexter within the scheme. So we copied exactly from the area again, he would get into honey much in any retouch. So here we go. A little bit of a Christmas crispiness into the skin, which obviously he could be easily. As you see, we even with this technique, is perfecto. Clean up the skin, just moving slowly in the way that I can make sure a copy and paste exactly detection that I want. I don't want to make everything to blurry because I know that you will be like there, because at some point I'm gonna use a bigger brush and obviously the detailed destined to lose a little bit. Now, this is quite easy, guys, because we're working on an area that is very bloody. Now what we're doing now. It would be very tricky to Dio and very difficult to do in case. For example, we are working on the, um for example, on the hairline that we did before that, like we did before, would probably clean up 34 strands of hair. But then he can be a little bit more difficult if you need to take off a big chunk like we're doing now and you still don't want to ruin detector off the skin. Here. The skin is blurry, so it's for me. It's be easier. Yes, is taking as a little bit of time, but it's part of the job now. Here we can start to have a be more bigger brush and what will be quicker again, the big the big park That's gonna be the underneath. No. Here we still coping exactly the texture next to it. You would say why you don't think just big brush and go over again? It would be too much of a petitioning to the Parton. It would be too much blurring. Still like that can still maintain a little bit more off natural Dexter. No. Here he's gonna be there that we're gonna need to really go over. And then later we just remove that extra repetition. Miss, if I can take over the little one again, Kalina is the outside of this big chunk, and the better is gonna be the patent of the texture the you call creating. See, this is exactly what the favorite separation that do. Um, we can see. Um, here to be careful. Don't copy the texture from the clothes. You're my guys would think I would. How you doing? No, again, No. Worried too much about repetition or any weird texture. Important. Just now we need to get rid over the stuff and definitely need to fix the colors because I need to start to see what ever actually done. Now he looks till we just don't everything. Let me see from for okay. No, let's who enoughto Texture is gone. We need to go to the now mix brush are gonna probably jump up a little bit here because I need to be more strength. But with the underneath. And let's see what this magic is doing. Just bring it down. We just copy and modern copy. We're pushing Nicola from the area toe another. So we press on pushing for a simple ship. Here we go. The selection, which is kind of stopping us a little bit. Now these leaders shadow that we go here, remember, is the shadow from from the head. And now we're removing. So this little triangle shadow he needs to go. But obviously the shadow that we go underneath here, I want to maintain it because if there is no shadow underneath that, he will be like it looked like they just disconnected. So all these shadow Minister of State, for now we're just fixing one second and then later we're gonna just announced they make you look more natural. Let's start to do the top. He regard this off the shadows. We just pushing and see. The selection is just helping us to Don't do anything wrong on top of the at the side. You can do this without the selection, but obviously you will blur. You will bring the call on top of the hair. So the selection is an amazing talk, and he's always good to save it, in case you want to come back and do any any changing. Oh, anything like that. So instead of doing it again because it won't be as perfect. This is a shot over the next. Now here, let's see if we can bring a little bit of the existing shadow, his big job, guys. But I hope do you taking out of it most? Most of it because Thies is war. You guys need to deal when you re touching her and we re touching her. His selection when we re touching her is always let me see if I can remove the selection of get rid of this. No, I've never selection anymore. Guys from just now try to obviously remove that separation from the selection, because when we deal with ham is always these were people want or they want everything super clean, which is most of the time. That's about that one. Oh, there's some people that just a little bit more kindness, so I want to maintain a little bit of these texture. But obviously that extra still needs to look like OK, now I'm just I wanted to give you the best keeps in a device that can help you. Let's see what we don't know. That's a big magic. Now we need to maybe low down with these guy. Go back into the look, and then we try to remove this shadow. Bring it up a little bit in this way. Looks like that. Is it still a little bit of a shudder from the clothes as a reflection. But then I think it was they We need to care. Read off. Most of this triangle could see is the shutter from the hair. So he needs to kind of come, So we kind of need to think about. Okay. How will literally look like if there is not this base, So just take these off. Soft and down and again, these type off technique can be easily used. Um, in the in the top areas well on the face and cause you want to fix some headlines? No again, guys to your eyes right now, you will look quite fake because we just saw how he looked like before. Sometimes he's going nice to just show too somebody that he's even like a photographer. Just stay on, looked his image. I mean and see if they can find out I was there. Well, I probably different eyes, but But now Obviously, we got this harsh edge Can you see now with other never selection. So I want to just off now. These harshness from the selection just by pushing the color out in this way gives a beam of a blurry look to it later. When we create a bill of hair is gonna help us. Now remove The Parton. See? Is we copy it? Most of it from the same point. Now we're just removing these extra dot stripes. You will see guys that when you look the image from the outside from far or these leader details, you probably won't see it. But you know that there and personally, for example, are rather profess spending a damning attack struck. But I want to make sure they looks spot on because it is your signature. OK, no, let's clean up a little bit. These higher on the dress in this case, still can use the frequency. Probably Now I need to using a bit the clone stamp because the edge there you go frequencies. No helping. I don't wanna make sure guys that looks spot on. So just going. Nobody is. This won't make stood different. Okay, zonas looks that nothing happened. Let's see the start. He is from the previous hair going. Um, you can see that These areas that obviously we need to play around with the, um, shudder was in lights, which we're gonna do a later. No, Let's see what we done. What? To me, guys, this is a big change. You could see that everything looks would be more cleaner. Um, here we don't have any more heaviness. That shudder would be softer later, and all the external as well needs to be touched up.
7. Internal Clean Up part 3: okay? No, let me. I'm gonna just some elements because on a but some hair. So we're gonna go into brush to do that? It's going interesting. So we go to brush with including soft first. Then we go to ship dynamic, and we're gonna select size here on the level six refined or even 10 fade we're gonna keep in 300 and, uh, you can just it make it small. That's how you look like your hair. I used a number of the key time, or you're gonna have a texture into the strands were maybe gonna keep in a number of 10 the fate of keep soft. And then we put our visit the call dynamic, which, in this way it gives me a little bit variation into the color of the hair. Very little. There's moving is where when I brush, it is gonna be a little bit more easy for me to control. And let's speak up. One theory goes, should be fine. If you want a longer, you put it through the fade control a little bit higher as a number. He was short people no pretty happy with this. Keep the floor. Maybe enough in these ways, Not too harsh. And then we can start to paint a few diesel Gonna start from here. The top is very little, Little different guys because we just removed one that we didn't like. So it was We want to add something that to be natural but soft. No. Keep going down to select the color and then you create just a little hair. If it would be to use more, which is bringing up a little be number two you go and keep copping to call up the oldest little It's trends it will just give They're soft. Look, have to be honest up here. That doesn't really need much. But just because I wanna be picky, we cannot no, here these lots off transparency. So I just wanna build up a little, be more off overhang into it and still create that softness, but adding more, we could remove the external piece. But I think you've just be another nine minutes. So I think like that is nice. We just need to emphasised by drawing some her into this In this way it gets kind of thicker instead then thing and transparent. Then later we're gonna play with B or burning in this way, we can have a little bit more less bright areas in internal. If you makers, I heard there's no good, just go back and always tried to, particularly the dark. One story was to start with dark area starts, and then when he fades, he kind of gives that extra depth into it. In the remember hair is is any regular, um, material. So when you when you do it, don't make it too perfect. You can see all these kinks very weird shapes, but there is the one day maintains everything natural, so don't be too precise when you do the so give. It was the extra softness that's white. I used my smoothing the letter B higher because that's move the fact that can help me to control. Otherwise it would be too difficult. Let's see what we've done. People put a little be thickness in there. It just looks also well, be more dark. The word about now, if he looks quite fake and painted because later we're gonna mask it. So it's gonna be softer, that stuff now, these area to of any too much now remember now the hair basically is flicking in front of us, so these had needs to go down and then up on exactly the same way. So you don't need to push it too much. So always think about it. Full of the waves now has a as well head dresser for me, kind of nor how the hair is traveling about war. Exactly. The headdresses want to do in this case seems to know my work, but so full of them full of them Don't make them look like doing something that days. No, right. That's why he kind of helped me as well, having this knowledge to know exactly how to deal we did and why the hey look sometimes waffle because people maybe they don't know how he needs to go. So we need to follow these directions now he I just want to create a little bit more crispiness. So I think a little bit more strength because this is no, it's flicking up. But then I just wanna obviously, softly how the harsh edge that we just create, So we need to break it down a little. Bba hiding some extra strength, which is gonna be an alternation of dark lights. Obviously rotate your your picture because you finally will be easy to use your tablet. I was using a pen tablet, so it's be easy for me now to rotate the image on his way with my hand. I can full of the flow, be easier, and then you bring it back, going to play around with it. I was only out sometimes to see what you're doing. No. Getting quite nice personally. Let's see just studying some extra. There's a little extra light. Too much you want. Always the guys. You can do these as much as you want the binding off easily How much time you want to spend this world on it and let's see if we can musk in now. Now when you must get see what happened. The head strength is still there, but it's softer. It's kind off the mask. You see. He helped us to make it more diffused and scouted. So is know as a harsh as it was before and gives you on intensify, it will you can do. You can just take your woody anti peace and just make another one copy a piece and this week gets to be thicker seem. But it still has this cutting effect, which he keeps everything quite soft. That's why it's very important to musket and obviously what you can do. You can aswell blur it now. We knew when you blow, you can do the Blair. Now you can do the Blair at the very end, really up to you. Now I'm going to just go back to my normal brush, cause just no, a race of some little bit. No, that's combined these into one. We cannot go into the blur, and in case you want to do and now are going, obviously clip the layer and then you just Blair basically would. You need to blow mainly. It's obviously just the edge. These were just gets b'more soft effect again. You can do this is the beginning. You can do the very end really up to you. Now Let's zoom out is where we can see little be war we've done. There's a big, um, big, big step. So let's see. Well, that was very interesting, I think was nice to remove. It has a little bit because even if was still that it was looking to strange. Um, so, guys, that's what we've done. This is You can see the beautiful separation, the beauty of our being here create your are sh edge. And then you rebuild something in there that you find, um, more interesting. So I think very happy with the result. And now definitely we can start to go to the next session.
8. External Clean Up: welcome to the fifth lesson of cleanup of reconstruction. In this lesson, we're gonna find out how to deal with the external edges. We're going to see how important it is to use close them to win. Instead, the favorite separation and also important, is to create some harsh edge. And then we're going to see how we can soft them out and keep them a little bit more natural by drawing somehow. Now, let's jump on the image. Perfect. No, What we have is a well, the internal adjustment on later, we're just gonna play a lot a little bit around with shadows and dodging and burning. No other new group. We're gonna call it these external adjustment. No, we basically go to do the same thing we've done on the internal about on the outside is very to work with the clone stem tool. He's gonna help us more than the, um, frequently separation. So let's start with a new layer we cannot probably work with. The selection is where you're gonna make everything a little bit more easy and cleaner. Remember the same concept. We need to obviously leave out harsh edge, and then we're gonna soften it out once everything has been done, we also want to maintain a little be more of a natural effect. So we know we could try to Martinez Mawr element. It's possible, obviously, or the natural image he has better. Maybe two carried off in this way. And then in case we need to bring back some elements, we can always erase them. Just gonna work for full of these curves of the hair you can see now the head here, they're flicking towards the inside. So this is probably the easiest part. When you've got really a movement which is quite solid, you just need to are lying the edge. And then when you go your selection, it will be easy for us to to deal with this. I was in always started, Girl was would be more of a messy areas here. So maybe we're gonna work through in this way cutting off this big hair. Then we gold way up and then we're gonna close our selection. You can see this kind off cleaning process. It takes as long of time. So we need a little bit of patient. Let's select the the path I will probably save it. It's maybe call it both to selected. Hi, this election common. Hey, judge. And we're gonna play with the Close them to remember Now we're gonna need to work on, um, on a current and below actually confuse and flow We're gonna lose a love flow of again We copy the background So there's no big texture Always do We don't wanna too much definition is gonna be easy for us to manage in this way and then it slowly we start to clone the external part and then we just stump it on the background. It's very easy, guys. Um, you can go to be tricky when you get strong shadows on the background. Andi, with these big contrast, so obviously is gonna be a little bit more disputed. Blend I already know. You can see. Looks better and cleaner. Always lead internal as well. Here. It could be a little bit cleaner as well, but again, we no doubt the technique, so we can definitely play around with them and achieve a result that we like. Okay, now we're gonna keep everything quite harsh and then later, when we draw the hair is gonna be easy. for us to keep it soft. Maybe he I want to just take off a little bit more. That's to remove this election we create again are the new said action. If someone maybe remove these seeds, there is too much going on and that rather prefer having to be more strong edge than theory . Diesel crazy bits. I go back. Let's don't need to save it. So which is gonna go shoot away in the clone stamp tool? See how the beauty of this election There you go. We're gonna keep going, obviously. Um, on the top, that's check the read. Don't leave anything out. No, let's keep going on the top. Now, here. We probably don't need to, um odd the, um, selection. So we're just gonna use another layer, just in case. It's just going to use a small brush just to remove these little flyaways you could see technique wise. You probably going probably go in a few options. You don't really have a lot of them, but it's the way how you use them. The flow that you use the type of brush, um, the tricks that you can use, maybe again, by using this election will be a little bit easier for me to don't mess around, but be a little bit more specific and precise in my cleaning process. What you can also do is obviously created just an entire selection or the hair off the oxide, which sometimes can help if you have large of lots of things that is going on. But be honest here is very specific. You got areas where it is very easy and areas that it is a little bit more of a mess. So I rather prefer working in this way. Now, here we can see that is a bit more off of mess. So we're probably gonna need Teoh use the selection in a second. So maybe let's start to use the last always full of the area days will be more harsh. Obviously here is gonna look a big cut it off. Does it have a chunk? But then, by driving some hair later is gonna be easier. Sometimes guys, we can forget the, um, this election. Sometimes we hide them. But then we forgot that we just hide the selection. So remember, he sometimes can be easy to forget. Now, here we go. some had, You can tell that we basically claimed the edge. So we need to obviously, to remove these leader destructions we're gonna go back into with the cloned stem tool and then we're just gonna remove slowly. So what was We need to make sure that we fall over the direction of the hair in this way we know gonna create a distortion into the P. Excels, but everything we look a little bit more floorless. Small brush is needed in this case when you work in this type of way so you could be better in case you call some very light hair Went up with the dark one. Maybe you can put your modem darkened, which just gonna help you to clean and better way the very light pieces. We're also gonna fill this recap. Okay? No, let's get going. You know where we're going to get to the top? We gonna fix their leader call a alteration from the previous reconstruction. So we probably gonna use, you know, the last little register of a quick selection of the outside, then probably later would draw some hair, just still emphasized the skink and give him more of a soft feeling into it. No, we can close this election. Who was same way Hi this election, Big brush lo opacity. And then we start to remove it. CIA tend to copy the background from the left side instead in the top of because sometimes again, you're gonna have some shadows and lights. So you always gonna need to try to find a solution. That's why I want so putting a bit higher that brightness of my desktop. Did you? No. We got a little bit more than better feeling. Let's see. Okay, let's go ahead. Now with these one, we go different option. Obviously, we can just remove the one that we don't like, But But there is a little bit. So I'm probably going to continue that a soft edge on the left and just gonna remove these big mess on the top again. I preferred to work with the last source, remove everything, and then later, when we draw the hair, just drove back some fuel details, trends. Remember the theories always. That way you remove where you don't like, and then you bring it back. Would you like Oh, in case you can bring it back because you don't have it. You will just create it, Um, which we can do by using different tricks security I have seen in the previous section. Once you find your method, once you hope you guys get like, a few information and tips that is going to really help you to speed up your workflow. Because of this, it during my career as a retouching. All these little things help me a lot. Select the bath. We're gonna keep doing exactly the same. Even before I was doing with this cleaning with our selection, for example, Um, upside in selected, actually. And without this election, it's tricky because you just saw how I can make a mistake very easily. Father never selection. It started with this election. Nothing's gonna go wrong because you selected where you like in Israel is gonna be easy to avoid to go back and forward. So, basically, when you when you clean up the edge thing outside of the edges, technically is always this divide in two step the first step, which is the one that we're doing now removing. And then the second step, it would be integrate Some details, see if I bring elements back. It's just no happy. So probably just going to draw a late and that's a and so yeah, two sections One we remove the 2nd 1 be at and in case you really have some detail that you think quite nice You want to maintain them, you can keep it now who was tried to remove these little here? They look like there's just being cut it off. So you need to What? I'm what I have guys is going. I set up on my keyboard where basically allow me to have a quick and workflow. So with my left hand, I've got on my key birds. Ah, few letters Just press straightaway brings me back to the tools that I use quite often. So make sure that you organize your keyboard as well, because you will really help you to speed it up. Now we will be a mess here, So we need to go back with the last total to our selection. And then we do the cleaning up. So again, remember, think about well. You normally do the type of work that you do. Organize your workflow, organize your method in this way you can stick credit and everything is gonna be easy for you. So otherwise, when you need to tackle any image if you don't have a guidance if you don't create, um up apart in the u normal full of it's gonna be very tricky for you every time. Really looking forward to see how the humid just gonna end up. That's the kind of thing in the beginning, they so many things to them. They saw anything to do that we don't really know how we will look like. So that's why step by step, piece by piece, we start to build up a very nice image. When you see the before enough, they just want to see an announcing off. Were you doing perfect? Okay, let's have a look from far. Let's see. Well, we've see what we've done. Okay. When three happy. We got a little bit more harsh edge right now, but is gonna help us now for the next step. So we're gonna come back in a second
9. External Clean Up part 2: No. What we need to do is set up a brush and ship dynamic called dynamic, smoothing and faith. So we're ready to start to drop our hair. We really know how to set it up. So it was the same way. Now we need to break down the, um the harsh edge that we just created. Obviously. Here we got this flake, which it looks obviously quite heavy. So what we need to do, obviously, is to create or this little yeah, coming through. And then what I would do as well as try to just bring back some little element of the original image. Just, um, very how side of it. But yeah, here. We definitely need to draw lots of details, lots of hair to break down, or this strong hush hedge of the always simple scholar from different areas. Remember, the flick tends to go slowly be in, so we need to replicate the emotion, turn around a little bit your image this way. Sometimes it would be easy for my hand to work in this direction, for example, So by moving the rotate, the image would be easier for me. Remember? Now is gonna look y e hush, um, the type of detail they're really creating. But then later, by masking we really know that it's gonna look a bit softer square curiously slader peace here. So you can see when you look at it. Even in the original image, he looks quite, um, chunky. There is thes shadows, strong shadows into it. So it's very interesting. Sometimes out details and photography comes out Now I just want to connect a little bit more. Top here, changed the sides just to create a little bit off different lymph and thickness. This latest trends, remember the hair always tend to be quite irregular in forms and shapes. So don't worry. Sometimes you know you just to a strive that maybe look of quite strangers. No. Perfect, because technically, they're no perfect sometimes. But what is important is to fall of a pattern for love The flow of the head. I was a chick a little bit. Nobody gonna bring some soft elements back in. Sometimes you know, we don't but bring these elements. It just helps you be kind of connected nicely. We would have done so. He's why Don't try, you know, maybe with a B off less floor. In this way, I can create a little bit more of a blurry feelings into it. Metric. Maybe it would be too. Maybe 10. Because anyway, later, we're gonna blur a little bit. Is this part you're gonna help us? Let's go back to in to the layer We were drawing her Lets me move on a little bit when we come back in case here, there is this little kink. So I'm following this leader curve. I just wanna create the soft ing regularity reading department. Now, guys won't again. Um, it's quite interesting. Important the way all how tend to, um, communicate with them with the clientele. When when I do a job like these, when these lots off, um, things to do lots of reconstruction and rebuilds of the hair. Obviously, he will probably take me twice the time that a normal image with no big, big, big changes we'll take. So you need to let them understand, explain to them, or you are going to do in the time they will take you because first of all, they will appreciate because, you know, if you if you just start and at some point. Just tell them, you know this can be done. No, um, you know, I need some more time. So these obviously it's gonna have extra costs. So I think for me, obviously doesn't mind is my view is just be very clear with them, OK? You to do these? I need to the d C season days. He would take me this time this time and this time. So I will probably charge you the no. 30% more than normal, 40% more than the normal. Oh, if you do how our If you normally get paid up poor the time for for the Howard that you're working on an image and obviously it will be a little be easy for you. But if you don't do this, don't treat old image in the same way. Okay, that's maybe add a little be more. Details him. Now, let's see how it's going on the top area. He I'm kind off happy, obviously. Now, in these area, we need to create a softer, the most often feeding into it. So I'm gonna rebuild some strands and again when you look at these image days to so many details that could be improved. Obviously, Um, obviously, in this situation for me is important. Showcase you guys all the different techniques. Um, Then again, for example, for these image my client Did you really ask me to do much, for example? So all the details now that we are adding some of them in the very regional work, and I never I didn't do it, I assume. Does this kind of approve of how you can push a little? Be more an image to juvenile, different type of results, that this is the little friend that now to my eye, it's to my xyz is always being light days, you know? No, I don't see any more that difference or what we've done in the very beginning or our journey with these image. So which is good thing I mean, now for the rest of seems okay. Now, we just need to touch up a little bit more deep top area. Now, remember here they had coming down from the crown, so we're just gonna soft curves like in the original image. There were already few of them, but now they're just gonna be a little bit more soft. And the really suggest you guys to yet to use a very high, um, smoothing investment a drug use helps you to control. Otherwise, you need to go back and forward, back and forward. It's a bit too long. Let's fix the bottom to the top. Very. Um, I'm OK with this. Here we go, the softer king king toe. So we're just gonna follow it, and then we almost done okay? No, let's have a look. From far what we've done, there's been major changing in some areas. Let's, um maybe ever look again, a little bit more of these area, which is the area that we had obviously bigger responsibility to take off a big piece. So we need to make sure they looks good. Sometimes we kind of scared off adding to my chair, because then we feel like we're not. We're building up again. Too much mess. Pretend it's kind of Okay, let's have a look now with the mask is quite nice. Let me double it. Not you bet. Sometimes if you just have one is no enough. So about having to to helps you. So this is the before and after guys on the external edge and I think it's quite interesting what we've done, so I will probably keep like that. He's always obviously space for improvement in case you need. Um, maybe we day. So now we can start to work on the serve face, and this is probably the best way off working the external areas, guys. So let's jump to the next section.
10. Surface Clean Up: welcome to the six lesson off cleanup reconstruction. In this lesson, we're going to see how to deal with freeze hier on the surface. So we're gonna find out what type of tool and what I particularly we need to use, you know, that achieve a beautiful, soft, smooth effect on the house surface. Let's jump on the image and a seat warm talking about Perfect. No, In this lesson, we're gonna work on the surface, um, to make sure that we don't have any more the freeze nous. So we create a new group. I'm gonna call the surface adjustment and no agree. The new layer we move on the left side for surface cleaning up. What I mean is obviously removing all these little lighter hair, they create a little bit of a contrast. Now, these type of cleaning up it could be done in different types of away. One attend to you straightaway is the using the spot healing brush. But you can give you a very nice and quick ah result. What? Where is the cool thing about this? You just go over with the brush and it's quite easy. Now I've show you different options No, you can keep the mode on normal and type of content aware which is the classic way. But what I found very interesting is to use them on dark and mode in particular when you work on top, off light ahead there, sitting specifically on top of dark areas. So when you when you remove it, see what it does in maintains the big sells the dark pixels, it just removes the light ones. So it helps you to, um, avoid to create too much extractions. Um, and again, the beauty with the normal ever look see, sometimes it doesn't do the job. Instead, by working with the dark in, it's gonna be little be easy for me to just work specifically on top of the lighter areas where you need to do. Sometimes you need to go over a few times. Um, but then I think for this kind of job, because he's very, very tricky sometimes to do. And do you remember in the beginning for me was, um, very annoying because there's always gonna be a repetition in the Parton's. So So you need to find the right solution, and this is could be the one and I use very often as a first step. And then, in case I don't ever know the result that I wonder you gonna use different techniques. Um, no. See what it does in particular when you work with dark areas, remember, later we're going to create a contouring effect. So the dark areas there gonna be a little bit more dark. So it kind of also feel the little imperfection in case there are just few. Sometimes obviously this spot healing brush. You can leave a little bit off excelling effect, but you can see it's very nice and quick solution for this type of what I suggested to Don't go straight away or no the entire hair. But work, um, work step by step and the in Gezi leaves some a little bit. Strange result. Try to go in in the opposite way. So you first take the little be off the hair off, and then you go diagonally or vertically. So just play around with different directions. Were slowly you kind off try to fix that area. But again, it is very interesting for me toward credits technique when I got this type of texture because it does the job in a very be quick, and it's very easy to use this one and gives you got the opposite thing where you've got darker on top of ah, very lie to her and you want to just remove the dark. You will keep the modem lighting, so you just want their make sure you keep everything on content aware. So far, the shop has got these amazing tools, and during the years, they really ah, improved it. And personally, I think is it's very great tool to use in this kind of situation. I was They keep the brush as close as possible to de hair side. No. Here there is this little piece, um abu Probably no. Go with the cloned stem toe with the spot healing brush, so I would probably probably go with the clone stem toe. So let's swap current and below. Mary flow is in 20% and piece by piece. Any to remove these little element. That kind of gives a B over destruction. Obviously another tool to remove these little flyways on internal serve face. What you need to do is as well you can still use the clones Temple scrum stem told she's gonna help, you know, in case you can really find the right solution. So my tendency would be swapping around between he spot healing rush and the cloned stem tool. So a little bit like a frequency separation. You work with frequency separation, but then you've gone a tentative in case you can find the results. Are you looking for? We dare type of tool. So always have on a tentative because in case one doesn't work, we need to find out another one. And with these one is quite easy for me. Then I started take off for the big areas and then slowly I need to remove all that detail day. He gives the feeling there has been removed when them again, Another key point when we re touching her east to obviously, um, make sure that we don't have the structure in the England. Now you can see scenes opened this basically since I opened this, uh, picture, I saw these leader hair basically from nowhere. And it was just but to my eye on, I didn't really like it, So I already knew that I had to remove a So all these little imperfection. They're kind of keeps the attention away from the subject or from the areas that need to have more focus. They need to go. That's why when we talking about retouching, it's more off announcing a new image. Then destroy or making yours. So we weren't always maintained. That beauty of the natural effect Let's move on to the top area. We go back to the spot healing brush, sometimes in particular when you're working very dark areas. It's a little be easy to have amazing results, so you can even go straight of I over the entire piece. And it does the job very quick quickly, Trust me went when I found out them the cool resolved by using these tools on Darken. He was amazing. You can even use the normal healing brush with these, um, type of setting so that several local he goes, which is basically it's similar to the spot healing, but is a little be more precise now. Were you gonna find all this evil normal because now we working more of a medium shade. It's no really dark and light, so if you can find really the result that you want see the clone them. The spot healing brush is a bit. That's a result right now. But in case you come, you cannot cheaper. Would you want you might wanna swap back to the clones stem tool. Now, in this case, they have very straight. So I tend to work a little bit more vertically when I've got the most difficult area to to touch up because in this way kind of preserves the the dark area. There we go with industry here because you see, you can have the strength is light Strategas Ilias that'll be dark because there's a depth underneath. These were the kind of preserved the feeling because now we've got less contrasts off blonde and dark. So it's better to working his way. No, let's go back into the darkened because now we call it a bit more interest. CEO Quick is for us to do this later. Touch up now sometimes will happen when you we go again. A contrast. There's no very strong like dark, dark, dark like back in blood. But they say, um, with this pointing brush, we might can end up tohave a slowly shadow on the other. We just done, and I'm gonna show you in a second. What? I mean gonna show you how we can also fix it a bit. Because obviously is an amazing tool, Azazel. The tools they always have a pro and con by the speed and the result that gives you I think it's pretty good. Then later, with the with the contouring here, these ever would be a little bit more shadows. So it's perfect and that I love the idea again to preserve the darker bits. Because in the beginning, when I was trying to deal with these type of situation, I was always destroying the party. So I was like, Yes, I want to remove these happy. I don't want to remove the shot them on the underneath and, uh, finding out thes little swap of dark and modes. You have been a lot. I received this Big one sometimes does it, and then you need to go back and kind of wanted to replicate that part in into it. Now, I think sometimes if you want him like a very, very clean cling result, I think this the clones them Dole probably is the best tool, but you need to be very careful because you want to make sure that you really for love the flow, the hair flow because otherwise you will see the imperfection, so basically gives you better result once you've done it properly. But then, if you do as soon as you do a mistake, you can definitely see straight away with the club's temple. So he kind of doesn't give you, ah, like an option. So would you do it properly or not so that we're not into using neighbors that you might want? You really want tohave on? Amazing result again, Sometimes even with spot Ellen brush, I can achieve it a settlement in some natural effect, obviously into it also, because all this district, these things type of destructions they they they give you, um, the feeling off. It's no done well, but technically it's kind of normal, obviously having all this soft split ends so buying maintain a lead, be of them. Some gives it more of a natural feeling to the to the head. But obviously, if the client runs something very polished, they all needs to go. I got no the clone stamp, but just good to do a little bit of touch up. Just quite nice to use afterwards. He definitely is much better now. No, Like I was saying to you see, when them When you see the before enough that you can see this is softer shadow of areas where there has been removed In case you wanna that stopped that because you don't like it . You can't really see it by now. If you would be more peaking, imprecise, Just chapters. Now, what we can do is on top of this layer, we're gonna add an adjustment, and we're gonna add a curves. And these curves were gonna just bring it up slowly. Very. Let's here because so basically we kind of doing ah dodging just in the area. Slowly be It is very shift. That's off the shadow. We try to bend a little bit more into the natural is not too much. Otherwise we will have the opposite. You can always custom your process as well, but again, it's very soft. Um difference that don't don't get too crazy, widow. And you just need a slide to be off extra lighting to it and clipper, because by Clippinger, you just focus on the air, so he's even quick. Quicker? Okay, so this when you want to remove their free Z split ends, um, or from the hair surface and again we can definitely see the improvement. This is quite softer version of this technique that sometimes you work with image that really difficult to do. Let's have a look what we've done so far with all this massive adjustment. These are These are our cleanup job, guys. So must have improvement in the image. Now I think it's time to start to play around with luminosity.
11. Luminosity: Welcome to the seventh lesson of clean up and reconstruction. In this lesson, we're gonna see what techniques we can use to announce the luminosity within the hair and how important needs to use dodging and burning to even out areas of shadows. Heirs of light. Let's see on an image what I'm talking about, okay, now we need to do is to emphasize the luminosity, um, shadows creatively over controlling into the hair, basically to make the help pop out. Okay, Um, I wouldn't work too much in the color side because we're gonna see these in the next sections. Um, we I'm pretty happy with what we have with this beautiful blonde. So we just want emphasize this beauty. Now, the different types obviously options. Now, what I want to do, I want to use a B of dodging and burning to fix some little imperfection within the light and dark. But dodging and burning we go so black and white layer, which you can help us to kind of see more the difference contrasting. Which is kind off for me. I'm not gonna use it now because a tent is just on the skin. The black and white. Let's start with the lights. Cindy's where we can soften it out some shut of areas and perfect them. We just want to make sure that the brushes set it up or from the basic set up. So nothing. We're gonna keep the flow. Ah, later below where usedto have Russia's. Well, let's keep on to I want to stuff now this stuff to shadow remember that we remove, uh, this big piece of hair. So now we got this off, the shadow of which is gonna just help us to create that three. The effect in this case maybe because I'm working on the skin on other prefer using the black and white layer. So remember, guys to download the actions in this way, you can have to set up that I'm working. Not there's lots of things have been quite interesting that you can use so dodging and burning completely set up. It's a good one because you want to be of noise as well. You cannot did. Now, here we go. See these little, um, lights board dark areas on the left. So no one even out a little bit this area. So now I'm just lighting up, being more some dark appeases. And then I'm gonna bring some dark into the light ones instead. Dodging and burning is kind of thing that is useful. Nor just for this game tomorrow for these type of situations. Now, on a ducking down these area might need the floor a little bit. Yeah, the miss if 1% is enough. This is doing good job. Maybe just 2%. See, now I'm kind off trying to create a be more of a blend and have a bit more of a soft feeling into it in his way. Plans nicely with areas next to it before and after. We don't have that brightness. He has no right. So we're gonna move on still with the burn and just emphasize more that shot of him. Remember, we copied areas from the right side. So now we could be more of a harsh edge. So by creating the soft shadows into it, it just makes it look. Could be more natural. Let's see, maybe freaking out a little bit more underneath this flick, just jump up a little bit of float, then maybe ever moved the excess. You just need to swap around with white and, um, black color was worked black suffering out. Okay, No, here we go. Some light and dark pieces. So we wanna blend them too much to float. I started off, announced his light areas, but I think it be of burning now. We will be interesting, obviously, to create more of a softer transition. Okay, so you kind of want to replicate some soft feelings into it. Sometimes you can also play around with the colors with the, um, low frequency. Remember, do low frequency. In this case, in the mixed brush, we're gonna be able to transport this shadow feather down and more softer way that sometimes is a good way to do as well. Now I like it. Will we have? So it's just need tiny bear of adjustments or just a dodging and burning would do the job because obviously the low frequency he will b a b more be more strong. So you don't want ruin the color, so I won't avoid that. So are rather prefer working with dodging and burning this kind of situation. But when we don't have too much contrast within the colors, then we can use the the mixed brush and the low frequency, which you're gonna see later in the next. Ah, sessions. My God, my idea, guys, is to give you as much as possible off what I do daily with my ing retouching process. Assume I hope he's gonna help you, even just to give you extra tips for who already knows what he's doing. So I'm happy to share. Would you mind my approach? He regard this leader areas and we just had to be more depth just helping with the blend docking down. Some areas always help you with blends. There is a nice trick. Don't let me have a look. One second to the very selection can help, But sometimes no notice teas together, but isn't section. I know it was like in the other side. Let me see if we can. Selecting sometimes can help us. Just gonna probably work with no selection incorporates the background as well. So just gonna be careful to don't go over working with my burning to just blend in a little bit more. Remember what we said the these new um, flick was a little bit lighter, so I'm just trying to add soft depth thing to it blends a bit better, and we go definitely a better results offer. The The Fringer is bending quite nice assault, which is a good point. No, let's have a look. See most of the imperfections that gone just with a simple touch up of dodging and burning , You can always come back as well. Remember, we know creating anything, um that you can't go back. That's why it is important to do this massive adjustment off removing pieces as a beginning and make sure that all right, because afterwards everything was so crazy. Now I will introduce you to these luminosity Mosque, which is going the way that I really like to work on. Ah, once you click on the action evil, you go in channel Ah, you will have different types off layers with different types of mosques. This is basically a different type of, um, levels of lights dark and meet tones. Um, depending on their really you want to focus. Let's see if we want Teoh and see if you want to go in the dark sides of the shadows. You got four types. If you want to really emphasize just e areas where the shadow is very deep You need to go in super dark if you want to Just emphasized the overall shadows and dark of the hair You can see the master start to change Now let's go Maybe on the super dark Gonna click and select the mask So common and click Gonna go back in that year's gonna create a new group Are gonna call a luminosity And in here are gonna add an adjustment Which is gonna be the curves adjustment and automatically gonna have the selection to my mosque So what I'm doing Have a look I'm bringing down the, um curves and automatically are gonna have a very beautiful bespoke shadow When you look the mosque you can see where is basically working Now if you don't want obviously the eyes , the nose and the lips Since you have a strong shadows in there as well you're just going in the in the mask, you remove it. Okay? Sometimes he's going eyes as well. It just gives it beyond that. But if you want to just work exactly only how you were removed, the areas that you don't like. But seeing the muscular you working on, and the type of mask that gives you is very beautifully done. This is very soft and that different options, depending on how much steps you want to add. No, we select. Always. We select the channels off the background layers. So now we go some soft elements from the original images. I'm just trying now to remove them a little bit. So I'm working with the brush on the with black on top of the mosque to remove that softer imperfections are on the edge is that we just removed because the China was created. Created two types off, um, of masks, the original and the and the new background a year. So I'm just internship. That's nice thing of doing life I really like. I still work with luminosity and also suggested Teoh to dio um for skiing Or overall image creates a very nice, beautiful contrast that it's completely different than working with the contrast and brightness tool. But it's very sports specifically specific and soft because you saw the mosque. Now let's have a look. If we can find some lights, it is very emphasize would be more in the lights are gonna use the super light because you got always the four levels. Now, if you just use the lights normal one, it will give you lights. Overall, let's use the maybe the bride lights. We got this election. We're gonna add an adjustment. Steel curves. Now, let's have a look what he does now when you look at it, see, Is Brian up us? Where? The scheme. So now we're gonna go back into the masking is where we can see where we're working. See, the beauty of it is very soft musk. In this case, I'm removing the scheme because I want to just focus on the hat. You probably think it's very soft while you doing all these two just to maybe dodging in case I love these effects. So my dodging would be very, um he's gonna have very brush feeling into it. So these will be very, very soft to see. The luminous effect on top of these detail is very soft. Removing also the background because gonna brian up a little beef, we leave it like that. And again, you gotta have everything in the Indy action, so feel free to try and play around with it. see it. Just give me the soft pop In case you want, You can also, um, copy and paste and other curbs like days is where you go A little bit more strong feeling Let's see the before and after See, the contrast is just adding super shine in case you like a little bit more of extra shine Oh, brightness Almost like a soft Um, like a brilliance effect Let's several look with a very simple way I'm gonna take the pain , the white color and with my brush I'm just going to start to go over or these very light areas that I want to emphasize Obviously is going to be everything on a new last year Does gonna technically go just on the light areas Gonna click, um, on the on the layer And I'm gonna open the layer style Gonna go on underlying layer And I'm gonna break it The dark part by clicking on top of it And now I'm playing around and moving into soft light Subtitles would be softer obviously Now, by moving the dark of decide the amount of it, See, everything's quite bright and Bobby No, in a very quick way Now what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna just select one second to see what I have worked. Because sometimes because you've been working with them a soft brush, you're gonna have some imperfection on the outside. So now, just so this election are gonna remove the selection and working with the erase tool to eliminate just some extra, um, brightness on the edges. But I found a very, very quick solution again. Create a layer white brush paint on top of it and then you pray around with them brush style and remember softer light. We've done all these in literally five minutes. It doesn't take too long. Since we have all the process, it's already done. Let's have a look. The overall image war we've done so far. So we've done a massive improvement. Um, we started from different types off. Clean up a reconstruction by rebuilding in some better feeling to the hair. Ah would use it by using different type of techniques. Combination clone stamp told combination of frequent separation playing around with spotting brush to clean itself. Face all these techniques, you can use it to clean extra, the internal filling the gaps like we were saying, depending on the result that you're looking for what your clients wants. So now we know what type of techniques we can you know we can use. What I want to do now is I want to run another layer, adding an image as a last touch up, which is quite interesting. Gonna make us more layer this where you can go back And I think the liquefy it is where we can play around with the shadow with the shapes are so I'm gonna just cradle my perspective or shot of proportion I think a little bit more volume on the crown The squeeze in this lolly bee, this area over wave announcing the waiver. You just full of the flow by pushing in out pushing will be in like you were saying the fringe area. We wanted to kind off reduce this volume of it, so we just squeeze in a little bit. And I think this just kind of thing that client will tell you are much off. Just many ones toe have on on the images. So you always discussed it with them. Now, I'm just gonna make sure that these Fleek it looks quite natural since with lots of adjustment on it. So I'm just that not the one that you strong for leak. I'm gonna be softer. So I'm working with my taste. Enough. No, let's have a look before and after that, everything looks a little bit more proportionate. They play around Perfect. That's never look again Now good will be interesting to add a little Be off. What is it be of shark? So gonna run the shop in action Tournament in everything on three point reached my favorite being Then I play around with your passage in I'm gonna just keep my mask from blackness American emphasized Just years there are once again I'm gonna focus on the areas that I want to make them sharpened So the top area tend to attempt to prefer a little bit more blurry and then just emphasized these area off the brightness with shock Me Then we softer attend to always keep around between 30% on bond, 60% Never keep on at 100 We other beer blurs are just gonna add simply the ah layer. And I prefer to work with the with the blur tool because I can work precisely on the areas that are warm. Andi tends Tobler, the dark areas, obviously the areas that we also added some hair in particular in this kind of flick, Remember, we didn't blur. It's on. I'm doing out because you can do it straight away or later. Now, maybe settle adding sharp on the fringe area. Like I said in the beginning of probably at the Bill blur because I think the focal point, it will be definitely the left side. Um, which is gonna help us again to emphasize this beauty blurring on the dark areas and the curves. Okay, guys, again, this is approach to ah, emphasize the hat. This is Ah, this is an image for hair competition. So this kindof results. Obviously, they need to be, um, spot honest, since they're going to be judged by headdresses, for example. Um, that's why all my works, the old folks and this type off works. Eso My job is to really emphasize the beauty over the as much as they can. Um, very happy with all this image hoping you guys like it now we can jump to the next session , um, to start to play around a little bit with color and play in different way by using the techniques that you just learned. Thank you.
Davide Cirillo, Hair and Beauty Retoucher
