Tuesday, December 02, 2008

CoffeeShop Tutorial: Retouching - Hot Spots and Dark Shadows


I am a huge fan of Scott Kelby's books on photo-editing (I refer to an old edition, "The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers" quite often). His books are full of great tips/tricks and have been invaluable for my Photoshop and Photoshop Elements education. They are the only photo-editing books I have ever purchased.

I wanted to share with you a great retouching tip to remove those annoying hot spots and dark shadows on portraits. The dark shadows tip is actually mine, but the hot spot tip is directly from Mr. Kelby's book. The "new" healing tools are really valuable for skin repair, but the old classic clone tool is perfect for this type of retouching process. This method works great to reduce deep wrinkles without completely removing them and making an 80 year old look 20. Unless you want that look of course!!!

12 comments:

  1. You have to go in and adjust the pixels of the image manually through the html. I hope this helps - you have MORE than helped me with all of your actions and tutorials - it's the least I can do! :-)

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  2. Again and again I thank you. Can't wait for the Powder Room action

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  3. Very helpful! Thanks once again, Rita!

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  4. Nice tutorial, check out my free downloads and feel free to promo them for your readers: http://makelightreal.com/create/

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  5. Love the tut but couldn't get the powder room to work in PSE 7. Is there something different to do? Thanks! My picture was all blurry after I just ran the action.

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  6. Awesome! Thanks for sharing this!

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  7. thanks! shall go and try this now =)

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  8. I hope it when I edit my photos it is as easy as you make it look. Thanks for sharing your secrets.

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  9. It says this tutorial has been deleted or expired. :( Is there anyway to still get this tutorial? I would love to use it.

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  10. I don't know what happened to the file, but I just made the image larger so you can see the tutorial! Rita

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  11. I'm wondering if this post has been removed. I can't see it anymore… except for the introduction. :-/

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  12. I think this link is no good anymore. Cannot find the tutorial and I was really hoping to read it. This is where I've been having problems. Would you mind reposting? thanks!

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Rita