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Recreating missing details

Recreating missing details - Photoshop Tutorial

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Recreating missing details

In this exercise, we are going to take care of this guy's shiny forehead and it's actually much worse than shiny, by the way,. If you zoom in on it you can see that we've got this blown highlight right here in the top corner, but it's surrounded by all these low saturation posterized pixels and it's just not acceptable. So we have a little bit of work ahead of us. But this will give you a sense for how to reconstruct details inside of your photographic images, in case things go wrong. All right, I am going to go ahead and zoom back out. We want to start with a good forehead and the good forehead in this image belongs to the woman over here in the left-hand side. So go ahead and draw a generous selection around that forehead, using the rectangle marquee tool, we will be masking it in the place, so you don't need a terribly accurate selection to start with. Then make sure the couple layer is selected at the bottom of the stack and press Ctrl+Alt+J or Command+Option+J on the Mac in order…

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