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 McCullough that will expedite your workflow and provide the highest quality results in subject and background integration. Apply Frequency Separation, the silo mask, leverage Photoshop's Lasso Tool, feathering, the mixer brush, channel masks, curves, the paint brush and Content Aware Fill for a clean separation of subject and background.
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...