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Difficulty: Advanced , Length: 1:50
• Advanced Selections
• Image Sizing and Compositing
• Creating highlights and shadows
• Blend If
• Skin Retouching
• Color Theory

On top of being a very detailed composite image, we also focus on skin retouching on a broad scale, perfect for full body images.

You will learn how to color skin and backgrounds, and make everything blend together using a color palette. This tutorial also covers color theory, and how to use colors to your advantage. There are many things to think about when creating an image, and color is a big one.

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In this advanced Photoshop Tutorial, we focus on compositing images together to form a full body. As you can imagine, it is pretty tough to capture a photo like this straight out of camera. In fact, I have no idea how you would do it. That is where Photoshop comes in.

Photo Shoot

This photo shoot involved digging a ditch and placing the model in it. We didn’t dig 6 feet deep, and a bit of pre planning helped in making less work for everyone. Basically, we needed to decide ahead of time where the “cut point” was going to be. It is fairly obvious that the ground line is the best place in this image. What that means, is that we can photograph what is under the ground, and what is above the ground separately.

In this tutorial we go into depth to explain how the photos were taken, and how they will be best composited together. We do cover advanced skin retouching as well, on a zoomed out scale. There are different types of skin retouching. One involves getting very close to every pore of the subject and making the details perfect. We do teach this method in the Phlearn PRO Skin Retouch tutorial. For this tutorial, we are making sure that the subject’s skin looks great from viewing distance. While small details are still important, the overall color and light levels make more of a difference here.

Color Theory

This tutorial also covers color theory, and how to use colors to your advantage. There are many things to think about when creating an image, and color is a big one. I suggest using a color wheel to figure out your color palette ahead of time if possible. If not, you can always change colors in Photoshop.

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Advanced Selections

We cover great techniques for making advanced selections in Photoshop. Using those selections to cut our subject out of her background is necessary, especially because we are using a different sky.

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Detail Painting

Sometimes the best way to create something in Photoshop is to paint it with the paint brush. There are some great tricks when you are doing this sort of thing. First off, using customized brushes will make anything you paint look more organic.

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More I met Aaron at B&H in NYC for a free lesson on retouching a portrait and I was completely blown away by his skills, his style and -of course- enthusiasm! Then I follow the guy on twitter and he announces that he's launching "something" called Phlearn! I give it a try and I became addicted to "phlearn" something new almost every day. Then, he launched the first Phlearn PRO and I became addicted once again. Nothing is left out, he tells you EVERYTHING he knows while he's doing it! You see him doing the stuff step by step, explaining it to you and then you do it and magic happens!! I actually keep notes with the minutes and seconds of the videos of stuff I like to keep for future references (like how to apply some make up or how to put light on a fairy's wings) :D

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More I have been a follower of Aaron's work well before Phlearn ever took shape. I was overjoyed when Phlearn was born. The website had single handedly revolutionised my way of learning photoshop. No more scouring for videos on youtube to learn or to find something interesting. Now I had a website where I could visit and learn something new every day. No re-hashed lessons like many other vloggers create...it was 100% original content.

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Random Tips

Want to see the exact size of the brush when you are painting painting in PS. This is not turned on by default. To change this, go to “Edit” >> “Preferences” >> “Display and Cursors”. Set the settings for the cursors to Brush Size.