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Finishing Touches with Color and Gradients- Part 3 of 3

Photoshop, Post-Production, Retouching, Styling Mar 23 , Episode 262

Final Touches

In the past two episodes I’ve covered all of the basic editing techniques for retouching and some color correcting for a high fashion style image. Today I’ll finish it up by editing the colors using adjustment layers, blend modes, and gradients.Building these effects slowly with many different layers will give you the chance to go back and make subtle changes later, and help achieve a softer look. Also see how to add in linear gradients, then crop and sharpen the image to complete it for the web.

Episode Timeline

0:50- Review of yesterday
1:45- How levels affect color in your shadows and highlights
3:00- Changing our color using blend modes on a lower opacity
4:00- Using a Gradient Map
5:10- Channel mixer
6:00- Linear gradient to darken areas
7:50- Building up effects to get the look we’re going for
8:45- Pen tool to make selections
10:35- Hue and saturation
12:20- Cropping the image
12:55- Painting in her shoulder
13:50- Unsharp Mask
14:25- Final touches

Gear Used in This Episode

Wacom Intuos 4 Small

Adobe Photoshop CS6

15" Macbook PRO

Sony NEX 5N

Audio Technica AT2020USB Microphone

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http://www.melaniemcniven.com/ Melanie

It’s been so good to consolidate what we learn in the pro tutorials. Thanks
Sebastian Ortiz

Great Tutorial, Aaron. The image came out fantastic!!
Anna DeLuna

This whole tutorial is just awesome! I learned a lot of new little things that I never really thought of before!
http://www.facebook.com/dctuck Daniel Tuck

Awesome series Aaron – I’m going to have to watch them all again, taking notes at the same time, you’ve covered so much!! So many new tips and techniques to apply to my photos – can’t wait to put them in to practice
Jon.

Another most excellent tutorial Aaron. Happy
Birthday to the phlearage !! Man – A year already, damn that flew past.
Learning loads and up skilling nicely thanks to your site. Keep up the good
work !!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joacim-Roboman-Schwartz/100001190769681 Joacim Roboman Schwartz

When it comes to sharpening, I’ve learned from others that you can use Unsharp mask and High pass on the same layer, just enought until some halos shows up and use the Blend If option to get rid of those.
mariadol

I am so impressed! Thank you very much Aaron.
You managed to cover so many interesting things. And as for your technique
about skin retouch (I mean using a brush and new layer) it saves so much time! I
also did this thing before, but I used completely different technique with
blur, green ot red channel and with high-pass and finally with soft lights. So
I did millions of operations to achieve the same effect that you did in a
minute. So
thank you very much!!!!
http://twitter.com/Jameswarwood James Warwood

A year has gone so fast! Congrats! Heres to the next year!
Martin

Helt fantastiskt vad du ger mig inspiration! Folk brukar säga att jag är bra i Photoshop, men när jag har sett det du gör så känner jag mig som en nolla! Men på ett positivt sätt såklart! Du är kung! Jag ska beställa lite material av dig tror jag. Nu har jag insett att du har talang på riktigt! Den här episoden var helt klart bäst av alla du har lagt ut! Jag satt och log för mig själv och drog genast igång Photoshop! Tack för bra web-tv!

Mvh
Martin
Markus

Why are you writhing in Swedish on a US website with a US host? I mean i like what you say but i dont know if our host does…. Have a nice one! =)