- [Instructor] All right, let's move to our next round
of retouching.
So we'll create a new layer, shift command N on a Mac,
shift control N on Windows.
Name this one R2 for retouch two.
And here I'll grab one of my healing tools again.
We can try a healing brush, sample all layers,
and then left bracket key makes that smaller,
and then option or alt click, to set your source area.
And just again, trying to sort of clean up this part
of the image a little bit.
If ever we run into an issue where we kind of feel like
it's bleeding together, or getting sort of a weird color
pattern, what we want to do is go
and use a clone stamp tool.
So I'll see what I can do with the healing brush
kind of for starters.
And I'm guessing what that's going to do for us
is give us a decent result, but really what we need to do
is go back and do a little cloning on top of this.
So I'm just option or alt clicking, setting my source area.
I'm aware that the area where the hair line is,
isn't perfect, but that's just okay right now
because I'm going to fix that in just a second.
I'm also looking for any other little areas,
that I think hey, might need a little cleaning up
while I'm here.
And with the texture on the skin, I'm trying to be careful
not to completely get rid of the texture,
but I'm just looking for any shadows or any highlights,
and trying to bring some of those down.
So option or alt clicking to set my source area,
and then sort of paint over those different parts
that we have.
Okay well let's do a little bit of clone work.
So if we press the S key or choose the clone stamp tool,
and if we go up to the options bar and say all layers,
and then if we take our opacity down, either by dragging
the slider or you can just click a number.
So eight goes to 80%, 10 goes to 10%,
brush, you want a brush, no hardness,
a nice small brush.
Option or alt click a nice source area
and this can just help to paint over a little
of that discoloration that happens sometimes
when you're healing.
And it can just soften edges up a little bit,
help things look a little more natural.
So sometimes it's nice to just do a little bit of that,
change the brush size, maybe really get in there,
and kind of do a little bit more of this.
Let me just go a little bit more quickly here.
A litter higher opacity so I just tap three on the keyboard
so now I'm at 30%, and just looking to kind of change
this little hairline here a little bit.
Bring up a little more of this.
And sometimes it's nice to do when you have clone stamp
and you're using a bit of a lower opacity,
is you can kind of go over skin in a couple areas
and what that will do for you, even at like 10%,
is it will just soften out the texture a little bit.
So if you notice that you have an area where the texture
is a little bit too strong, you can paint over it
like we're doing here.
And I'll just soften things out a little bit.
Okay well I don't want to much to the forehead up there,
and just want a little bit of a different look
in that area.
Okay great, well next I mentioned that we need to do
a little more work on the next down here too.
So let's grab our healing brush, and with the healing brush,
we will change the brush size, right bracket,
it makes it bigger, option or alt click
and then come back and paint over this.
And one of the reasons why I need to do this
with the healing brush is before we did spot healing,
and that just randomly selects an area,
and sometimes when you want to get a little more precise,
or make something look a little bit better,
you want to use a tool were you're actually
setting the source area.
So you can see I set a source area, paint over a shadow,
set a source area, and paint over it.
And I'm constantly, almost every time, I'm clicking,
I'm resetting my source area.
And the reason is that I want to make sure
that I'm not creating any noticeable patterns
or repeating patterns, or repeating textures,
so I'm kina building my own texture
each time that I do this.
And a lot of times people forget to retouch the neck
and it's not that the neck's that important,
it's even out of focus here, but,
what I've noticed is that you don't want to bring
anyone's eye down to that area.
You want, in this case, we really want to go to the face,
and so here, what I'm looking to do is just that.
And so I'm trying to rebuild in some textures there,
and I think that's looking a lot better.
Zoom out so we can see if it's working.
And just clean up any other little things
that you might have here.
Now what about where we have a big shadow like this.
You kind of see the light comes in here,
and cuts across that .
I'm going to want to fix that.
So that's definitely something that I'll want to fix.
But why don't we pause right here,
and then continue doing some more work
and we'll do that in the next movie.