Continue to leverage the preparation, organization, and clean edges built using, the silo and two pass clipping process. Retouch with creative front of mind, focusing on color control and manipulation for the athlete's apparel. Using hue/saturation and curves, enjoy creating your own look for a lifestyle image. Separate color from light and dark adjustments for complete control. Learn how to convert a white athletic shirt to a realistic black. Manipulate color and luminosity seeing color across a range of tonal ranges. Use Frequency Separation 2.0 for advanced texture cleanup, applying final texture tweaks during the color change process.
Advancing towards the final stages of the lifestyle image retouch, focus on the perimeter outline of the athlete in relationship to the background of the image. Work to create a clean, refined, high end extraction for stand out results. Learn a couple of tricks from high end retoucher, Sef McCull...
The critical and technical construction of the image has been the majority of the focus. Transition into the establishing story and mood through grading the lifestyle image. Moving towards final touches, focus on adding contrast and manipulating saturation. Use curves and the targeted adjustment ...
Congratulations! You've completed the Commercial Retouching course with high end retoucher, Sef McCullough. In this final video, work with Sef to finalize the lifestyle image. Follow his markup to fix any distraction and complete the color grade for a finished, deliverable image. Thank you for pu...
