From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Recreating missing details - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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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White reveals, black conceals6m 45s
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Layer masking tips and tricks5m 8s
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Generating a layer mask with Color Range5m 38s
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The Masks panel's bad options5m 18s
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The Masks panel's good options3m 50s
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Creating and feathering a vector mask3m 42s
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Combining pixel and vector masks3m 50s
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Working with path outlines7m 10s
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Combining paths into a single vector mask7m 52s
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Sharpening detail, reducing color noise4m 27s
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Recreating missing details8m 49s
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Masking glass5m 50s
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Refining a jagged Magic Wand mask5m 53s
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Masking multiple layers at one time5m 15s
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Establishing a knockout layer6m 6s
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Clipping and compositing tricks7m 37s
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The synthesis of masking and compositing1m 36s
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