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Creating a luminous black-and-white portrait, part 2

Creating a luminous black-and-white portrait, part 2

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Creating a luminous black-and-white portrait, part 2

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- The next step in our work flow is to export this imagine to Photoshop. The quickest and best way to do that is to press Command E on a Mac or Control E on Windows. That is a shortcut you want to write down. You want to know that one because it allows us to really quickly bring the imagine over. And once you're in Photoshop, it might be a good idea to do a little bit of touch-up work if you need to. Press the J key and Shift J, until you have the spot healing brush. I don't want to do a ton of this, but just clean up a few little things. And often in portraits, it's a good idea to do just some light retouching because you notice things in still portraits that you wouldn't notice is real life. So, just minimizing a few little variations that we have here, no big deal here. And I'm actually just doing this right on the background layer. Because it really isn't that significant of work. If you have more heavy lifting that you're going to do, more significant retouching, well, I'd do…

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