Hair Retouching Techniques Tutorial in Photoshop

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http://retouchphotos.net/how-to-retouch-photos-tutorials.html

Get the full tutorial here:
http://marketplace.tutsplus.com/item/hair-retouching-techniques-tutorial/2361...

A 60 minute video tutorial covering 8 different essential techniques for editing and retouching hair!
I'll be using tools such as the Liquify tool, high pass filter, layer modes, custom brushes (included in the zip file!), layer masks, the puppet tool, and more. The video is 1200×900 resolution, so you can see everything crispy and clearly, as well as fully commentated throughout, describing all the techniques used. The tutorial is made for everyone! If you know the basic way around Photoshop, following the instructions shouldn't be to hard!

This tutorial is not aimed at teaching you to arrive at a set destination, but rather the techniques involved in these operations, and how to creatively use them yourself in any way you want!
Techniques covered:
You do not need to be a Photoshop Genius to follow this tutorial! All techniques are covered in sufficient depth, for those relatively new to retouching. Hair cleaning. Hair lighting enhancement. Adding shine. Changing and adding color. Adding highlights. Creating hair from scratch. Copying hair from a different photo. How to select and mask hair. Mixing techniques together. And more!

Through these techniques, you'll learn how to not only retouch hair, but how to change it radically to fit your needs!

To make it all relevant, I'll be working with photos by professional photography agency Fantasy Fotos (http://fantasyfotos.zenfolio.com/).

Along with the video, you also get a Photoshop file with all the layers shown in the video, so you can see how it works in practice! (note files in Photoshop are lower resolution and watermarked)
Music in preview courtesy of Alexander Blu (http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/946)

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Education

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• hair retouching
• hair
• photo retouching
• photoshop
• video tutorial
• photography
• photo manipulation
• model
• recolouring
• hair colour
• creating hair
• masking
• mp4
• retouching

[drfye]

@TokyoZeplin

.................then of course there is the film industry which also seems to have been making some relativly recent leaps in CGI and artwork . So I don't know, I think we will have to just wait and see what they do next. hahahaha.........I am certainly no expert on any of this but I think in 10-15 years we are going to see some major advancements in the entertainment industry and the way products are marketed to us.

[drfye]

@TokyoZeplin I think perhaps sooner than 30 years, this is a shot in the dark but I think we are going to see some major advancement in 10-15 years, i think your right about technological advancement still being a fair way off but I figure as long as there is proft in it for the companies that utilize this technlogy we will keep seeing strides in software, hardware and technics . I mean if I am not mistaken gaming is a multi billion dollar industry in North America alone .................

[TokyoZeplin]

@drfye well see, on animation we are far less advanced than with modelling. It's still very easy to spot that movements, and especially facial animations, are made in animation software. I remember a guy in the game industry saying a few years ago, that we could have a computer game that looked like a movie in just 5 years. But it might still be another 30 before the animation would catch up with the modelling. It's just much harder.

[drfye]

@TokyoZeplin

ya that is what i was thinking of, i can imagine how much money would be saved by advertising companies or whoever when they don't have to pay for a model, for a make-up artist, person who fits the outfit to the model, lighting specialist, photographer etc and simply build a virtual representation of a person to model their product. Television commercials are another area of advertising we could really see an explosion of this kind of , i suppose you would call it CGI.

[TokyoZeplin]

@drfye tons of ads will continue to use real people, as the point of the ads are real people. Cosmetic products would be a prime example. Chances are any ads with "artificial" people will have to be clearly labelled as such. Once it becomes common, it's also likely to be seen as the "cheap" option, compared to using actual people.

[drfye]

@TokyoZeplin

10-15 years and may just be less. I do wonder how marketing and people's general impressions of beauty will change when we reach that point since we will no longer be using "real" people, especially since ads and marketing are quite often setting trends in pop culture and social circles or will things stay relativly the same. It is an interesting concept and one i suppose we shall see evolve over the next few years.

[TokyoZeplin]

@drfye I'd estimate that in 10-15 years, the standard render bar and model detail level of 3D animation would be decent enough to start actually just using renders instead of people. Hop on google, some people already create models that are so good, you can't really tell if they're real or not.

[drfye]

@TokyoZeplin

it is indeed an interesting door that technology has opened up in the world of marketing. hmm, for the orginal picture to get to the point of such distortion that a label has to be put on it does make me wonder if at some point in the near future they will stop using real people as models altogether.

[TokyoZeplin]

@drfye This is practically how all advertising is done :) In France for instance, ad companies now have to add a message saying the image has been retouched, due to distorting body images.

[drfye]

interesting.... i believe this is how a lot of advertising is done, they touch up the photo's or subjects digitally before it is realeased.