TGJ3M_Digital_Imaging_retouching

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=Retouching= Picture re-touching is a valuable tool in your arsenal as a graphic designer. [|Typical salaries]of GOOD re-touchers working a salaried position can expect to pull down between $50,000-$75,000 a year. In this set of tutorials I'll ask you to teach yourself a variety of techniques in which you can retouch an individual to reduce 'undesirable' elements from the photograph. Note, after you can do this, clients can be family members as well friends/strangers paying you real wages for re-touching.

Retouching often involves:
 * changing/enhancing eye colour
 * applying/thickening/altering/natural features (eyelashes, hair etc...)

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=Activity=

A) Tinting eyes
Turn this: into this:

First of all, open up the image below (click through to google drive and **download the picture - don't just "save-as"**).
 * Step 1**

Now we want to make a selection of the eye itself. To do this we will just use the elliptical Marquee tool(M). When the tool is selected, drag an ellipse around the iris, like so:
 * Step 2**

We need to be careful with the selection of the eye, because in its current state, when we want to colourize, the eye-lid will also be coloured. Therefore we need to **de-select the area where the eyelid and hair has been selected**. To do this we will simple use the polygonal lasso tool(L), or regular lasso tool (While **holding the ALT button on your keyboard**, left click around the area of the eye-lid and make the following selection:
 * Step 3**



Now onto the fun part, deciding what colour you would like to make your eye! Up top, choose **Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Color Balance**
 * Step 4**



This makes an adjustment layer that has a little balance symbol and a black thumbnail. Except if you look closely the black thumbnail has a white dot in it. That's the selection we just made - which is a little hole in our mask. When we adjust the colour settings to 0 cyan/red, +72 magenta/green and 0 yellow/blue we get a decent colour of green for the eye. Notice the problem with our selection if it's not perfect though? The beauty of working with masks as we saw before is that we can alter them. Using a BRUSH, either paint in BLACK OR WHITE on the image and you'll get more or less of the eye in green as you need. Now that is colouring at its most basic level, if you use some initiative, you might thing... well that doesn't really blend in well...For that reason, I'm going to ask you to change two things. First, click on the black thumbnail. Change the feather option to about 5. This softens the edges of our selection. We want our colours to come though, so we're going to change our blend mode ([|explained in this great article]) to COLOUR. This "punches" the green colour but keeps blacks and whites ok.
 * Step 5**


 * Set the opacity of this layer to 50%.**

We want to apply this effect to the other eye now. Simply, we just SELECT THE COLOUR BALANCE LAYER, select the default brush, zoom in on the other eye and WITH A WHITE BRUSH SELECTED brush the other eye. Voila, it's green now as well.
 * Step 6**

Now, notice the blacks of the pupil don't come out all that well though? One trick is to dupl**icate your adjustment layer** and change this new (top one) layer from Colour blend mode to **Overlay** - this will ignore light colours but multiply darks. We will change the opacity of the Overlay layer (top layer) to 50% and keep the Colour layer (the middle layer) to 50%
 * Step 7**



Voila, we're done!!!



Thickening eyelashes and fixing hair
Transform this photo:



Into this one:


 * Step 1**


 * Keep working on your file from part A**

So make 2 new layers (**CTRL + Shift + N**) and name them "upperlashes" and "lowerlashes".
 * Step 2**

To start: click on your brush tool. Set it to size 3 (by hitting [ and ] you can decrease and increase the size of the brush - try a brush size of 1 pixel). Change the colour of the brush to match her hair (**#171815**) (you get this by clicking on the foreground colour in the bottom of the tool panel).



Click on the brush panel icon (#1 in the picture below). Notice your brush by default is a round brush (probably). It gives the profile you can see in #2. Instead, we want something that will look a bit more like a lash - so click on the #3 (round point size 25). **Readjust the size of the brush to be size 2**

Now we're going to brush on some eyelashes.

Repeat these steps over and over again (maybe 10 lashes) until you're REASONABLY happy with the overall result. Don't fret - we're not done yet - don't expect it to be realistic yet!!!!


 * Step 3**

Now, because we stroke every eyelash with Brush tool we want to smooth a little bit edges of drawn eyelashes. So, click on upperlashes layer and go to the top menu and **filter>blur>Gaussian Blur** and set the values to about **2.1 pixels** depending on what you've done. Notice the lashes are starting to look a lot more realistic.




 * Step 4**

To add some variability and some "pointiness" to the lashes we're going to squish them around a bit. To do so we're going to grab the smudge tool

Grab the tips of the lashes and quickly pull up. This gives them a tip as they'd have in reality.



== =Studio Lighting=

Before we start, you’ll need to do a few things in preparation:
 * 1) Setup your studio strobe on its stand, set the key to 60 power and the fill to 40 power make sure they works.
 * 2) Place your subject 5-10 feet away from the backdrop.
 * 3) Choose a [|portrait style] and place your lights accordingly
 * 4) You should know how to connect your strobe to the camera and make it fire by way of remote trigger, pc sync cable, slaved to your on-camera flash, or by way of an in-camera system. Ask me if you don't remember how.
 * 5) Settings: Set your camera to manual mode, and use the 16/160 rule. Your aperture (F-stop) to 16, shutter speed to 1/160th of a second and your ISO to 100.
 * 6) Take a test shot and begin adjusting shutter speed and aperture accordingly (typically drop your f-stop a step or two, and possibly your shutter speed "up" a step or two to 1/180 or 1/200.

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Assignment #4 - Retouching yourself or your partner
You are to shoot yourself or your partner and adjust eye colour and/or eyelashes and/or lip tint or any other features you want in creating a printable portrait of yourself. To do so, create an 8x10 300ppi blank document in photoshop. Once done save the PSD, and create a 1.5 MB JPG.

Submit both the PSD and the JPG.

Evaluation:

 * **CATEGORY** || **4** || **3** || **2** || **1** ||
 * **Content (photographic skills)** || Superior and insightful selections for content, good focus, proper settings. || Good choices in content selection, good focus, proper settings. || Generally satisfactory content selection. Often focused and/or other settings adjusted properly. || Content has been barely addressed or addressed poorly. Lack of focus or inappropriate use of adjustments ||
 * **Retouching style choices** || Exceptional retouching of content in a stylistic fashion || Expected retouching of content || The retouching leaves something to be desired though generally the content has been manipulated || Retouching quality is poor, little care/time is taken to change the original photo. ||
 * **Use of Time** || Used time well during each class period (as shown by observation by teacher, and documentation of progress in journal) with no reminders. || Used time well during most class periods (as shown by observation by teacher, and documentation of progress in journal) with no reminders. || Used time well (as shown by observation by teacher and documentation of progress in journal), but required reminders on one or more occasions to do so. || Used time poorly (as shown by observation by teacher and/or documentation of progress in journal) in spite of several reminders to do so. ||



Practical Assignment #5 - Sell that product!
You are creating an ad for a magazine. You will shoot all aspects of whatever it is you're planning on selling (make it realistic - i.e. you can't sell an elephant). The product does NOT have to be real, it can be imaginary. You can either create the product from scratch and make a little model, or photoshop it in separately. You can shoot people, products or both.

Your workup is going to be put on an 8"x10" 220 dpi (print quality) photo that you could use as a portfolio entry piece

Choose appropriate fonts and messaging to go on top of the piece. Please be mindful we're using only stock work with clear free copyright!

__I want a submission of your PSD and a 1200kB JPG for this assignment please.__

Evaluation:

 * **CATEGORY** || **4** || **3** || **2** || **1** ||
 * **Content (photographic skills)** || Superior and insightful selections for content, good focus, proper settings. || Good choices in content selection, good focus, proper settings. || Generally satisfactory content selection. Often focused and/or other settings adjusted properly. || Content has been barely addressed or addressed poorly. Lack of focus or inappropriate use of adjustments ||
 * **Presentation**
 * (arrangement & messaging)** || Stylistic choice in tones, arrangement and colour choices in presenting the product show no errors in judgment || Overall the ad is well constructed, but the presentation is somewhat lacking. || Generally the ad is satisfactorily constructed, but the presentation is lacking in many areas. || The ad is incomplete, or shows signs of obvious neglect in presentation. ||
 * **Use of Time** || Used time well during each class period (as shown by observation by teacher, and documentation of progress in journal) with no reminders. || Used time well during most class periods (as shown by observation by teacher, and documentation of progress in journal) with no reminders. || Used time well (as shown by observation by teacher and documentation of progress in journal), but required reminders on one or more occasions to do so. || Used time poorly (as shown by observation by teacher and/or documentation of progress in journal) in spite of several reminders to do so. ||

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