Lynda - Learning Photoshop Portrait Retouching

Want to improve your portraits, but can't afford to spend hours obsessing over distractions and discoloration? In this course, Chris Orwig shares techniques that can help you use Photoshop to bring out the best in your portrait subjects in a pinch. He explains how to remove distractions from the background of an image, as well as unwanted logos, jewelry, and even lint. He also shows how to shape and sculpt your portrait subjects, improve skin, eyes, teeth, and hair, and use multiple frames. To wrap up, he offers bonus tips for retouching black-and-white portraits and applying creative effects, plus a few advanced challenges for testing your ability to clean up a background and improve skin.
Topics include:
Cleaning up the background
Removing distractions with the Spot Healing Brush
Removing logos, jewelry, and lint
Sculpting with Liquify
Smoothing skin
Removing unflattering distortion
Changing the face with Face-Aware Liquify
Removing shadows and wrinkles
Improving eyes
Whitening teeth
Changing makeup
Using multiple frames