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Retouching

Retouching - Photoshop Tutorial

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Retouching

When preparing a file to send to any of the Nick plugins, it's a good idea to send a file that's as clean as it can possibly be. If we look at this file closely, it actually looks pretty good. We Zoom into it even and start panning around, chances are, we're not going to find too many spots that need retouching in here. And as I look around here, there really doesn't seem to be much of anything. So I'm going to go ahead and Zoom out, and just open this up in one of my favorite plugins, Silver Effects Pro 2. For me, when I'm converting an image to black and white, I like to go really dark and crunchy. If we look at some of the presets in here, for example, you can see that we can do some pretty dramatic things with our black and white image. So for example here, the sky has gone almost completely black, the clouds are really bright and poppy, and so on. This is a little bit overkill. But what happens when we start picking some of these presets is sensor spots become really, really…

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