BEHIND THE LAYERS: Advanced Hair Retouching In Photoshop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2020
- I wanted to explore the limits of retouching and inspire people along the way by walking through my layers on difficult images! We’ll go through them step by step and show you how I achieved the final image. I hope this inspires people in their own work to overcome what they believe is impossible.
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Wow, this is an amazing tut. I'm officially blown away with the flyaway technique. The great thing about your tuts, is these techniques can be applied to other uses. Thank you for your clear teaching and creating this video. Such a big help. I think this will advance my PS/retouching skills significantly.
Thank you Pratik !!
I've loved watching your journey so much Pratik!
That means the world to me! I know somewhere on some hard drive I have some old graphics I made back in our forum days for you too!
A perfect work as always!! Thank you very much for sharing! :D
Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much Pratik for all those tips and step by step tutorial! God bless you and good luck!
Truly amazing video .....Thank you so much for sharing, and please keep making detailed videos like this from now on .
Best tutorial on retouching hair I've ever watched! Thank you
Thank you so much! I aim to bring more fun content to the channel with lots of education.
Thank you so much for sharing your retouching process! Your method of drawing flyaways was a finding to me. I will definitely try it!
I am so glad to hear that!
You are providing very valuable tutorials- Thank you!
Love this, thank you so much for sharing!
This was absolutely amazing, and exactly what I was looking for while trying to find something to learn high-end hair retouching!! Thank you for taking the time to share!
You are welcome :D
This is pure gold!!! I would definitely watching even is a longer video. I kinda knew some of the technics, I tried them before but not on your level. I always failed because lack of experience, but you master them to whole different dimension. This is when talent, experience and patience comes in. I learnt a lot from you and now I got more confidence, because you motivate me! And your voice is so calming, I would listen you all day long! Great video! Thank you so so much Pratik!!!
super ! Thanks for the technique on edge fly aways ! Genius !
Super welcome friend!
I learned a lot from this video. Great tutorial!👍
Wooow, thank you so much for sharing this whole process. The hair is really difficult to work, but your techniques are awesome. you gave me some great ideas to use in future works with tools i already know. pure gold. cheers from Chile 🇨🇱
This was absolutely incredible. It was great watching your process and now I've downloaded the file to try it out for myself!
Thank you for all the work you put in to share your knowledge!
Thank you Tejas for being here for it!
Terrific show!
I learned so much from this tutorial, I have so many problems with hair but couldn't find anything in depth. thanks so much, you're God sent! Would love to watch how you retouch curly hair and afro.
thank you! so much help
Brilliant! Thanks Pratik!
Cheers Richard!
Sensational, Pratik!
This was so great to watch! I was glued to the screen throughout. Thank you for sharing Pratik. I have a newfound respect for hair retouching. It's crazy complicated and detailed.
I am glad you had a chance to check it out! Miss you friend!
@@pratiknaikedu I can't tell you how happy this message made me. I may have only met you in person once but I do consider you a large presence in my life. Thank you for all that you do for the community and for being such a genuine human with such a big and giving heart. I so look forward to the day we can hang out again. Keep well and keep up the amazing work!
This was enlightening. I usually don´t touch much hair for fear or of messing it up more, but this looks great and inspiring. I´ll give it a try. Thanks
Thank you brother
You’re a beautiful soul, thank you!
thank you for sharing the methods, very useful 🙏
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Many Many Thanks!
You are welcome!
amazing!!! very interesting is see how you work on this picture from scratch
I like this photo, I use photoshop from 2001 but i learn so much from you'r videos, thnx bro 😀
Thanks for sharing the technique🙏🏼
You are welcome, hope you enjoyed it!
beautiful ❤
Amazing video!
amazing!
Great tutorial. I loved the way you use patch tool. Thank you for sharing your retouching technique.
Thanks for checking it out! You are welcome!
Amazing !!!
Thank you Michael
I learned so much from you ✌️✌️
I learned a lot ! Thank You !
I'm so glad to hear that, thank you for checking it out!
Best show.
lovely informative video. amazed how much focus this would require :D
Hello. Pratik Naik. I am photographer where live in Korea. I'm watching almost all your educational tutorials and learning photo retouching. I'm also using the plug-in you made. Thank you for leading me to do the intermediate level of retouching through you. Especially your action is very useful with RA RETOUCH PANEL, most of the photos are being completed.
Thanks for this Pratik, Regards from Mexico.
You are welcome Antonio! Enjoy!
Amazing 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I bought ur course and this both learn a lot.
may I ask, how do u deal with the skin which intentionally having hair on the face? I find it hard to retouch skin.
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No words .. Thanks a Lot 💓
Very welcome :)
Hi Pratik! Was really interesting to see your approach to this. I think you should also consider making concise versions of these long form videos to be posted alongside these deep dive ones. It would really help those of us who've already learnt from your series, been retouching for long, and still want to learn through the process of your retouch on individual images. :)
Good idea :)
Tedious work for sure. Im guessing a full day to retouch this type of image.
48:00 - great tip!
Excellent Pratik
Thank you Ram!
@@pratiknaikedu Are you going to review affinity photo?
Great.. i think you should add this video to your Retouching series. If possible?
1000 likes and thx pratik , please make more videos
wow, thanx for sharing this tutorial and tif file, i will study it from bottom and up. how long time would this total edit take? (skin and hair)
Amazing work. Does it say somewhere in the video how long it took?
Thanks a lot For sharing the technique with us Pratik :) before this, I was also having problem with retouching hairs. This video also makes us wonder that high-end retoucher guys spend that much of time on every project? I also want to ask you that have you thought of making your infinite panels available for students who are studying photography? because they can't afford it at the current value. If you could just make a version of the panel with limited access like adobe does for students and teachers? that would help a lot. I can ask you this because I teach at two different photography schools and students ask me the same question.
it helped a lot!! I will send you the result about what I am dealing with later when it it complete! Thank you!! Just wanna ask how much time did you spend on this retouch~?
Amazing Pratik! I have a question: why using the clone at first stage to remove flying hair instead of the healing brush tool?
That's a great question! When we use the healing brush for the same areas, the healing brush likes to produce the "average" result of each stroke. So with complex areas, it tends to create more problems later. Since the clone only copies and pastes, I coincidentally go through each area faster. It's completely opposite in comparison to skin work. The best option is to try both on the image so you can see first hand how they both react to the same area. The tools themselves have their own identity based on these responses to different textures and contrast areas.
thank you bhaiya :D
Hello! Thank you for this tutorial! ( : Maybe you can answer me a question? Did you forst retouch hair and second skin? Maybe you can told me all your steps of retouching? Couse since this tutorial I imagine that at first I need take care of the skin and then hair.
One thing I did not quite understand, Pratik, was at 17:41 when you are using the clone wide brush, is that the same brush as the smaller clone brush you used earlier? Just wider? Or is this a custom brush that you named clone wide, with certain brush characteristics? Thank you this was a wonderful tutorial
What brush settings are being used for the clone tool? always 0% hardness? and I see air brush style buildup is turned on. Are you using shape dynamics, transfer, buildup, ...? Like is there any pressure sensitivity going on?
Hello Pratik..Hope you're doing well. Loving these Tutorials. FYI at 14:12 Blend Modes of the Clone Brush does work. The reason it didn't work in your instance is that you chose Lighten instead of Darken and in lighten Brush mode you tried cloning a lighter colour hair instead of a Darker colour hair. What you're telling the brush is to Lighten a hair, but it's already light and therefore it didn't affect it.
Hey Raymond. If you open up an image and the layer itself is set to the normal blend mode, changing the blend mode on the clone brush doesn't work. I just tried it again in both scenarios. I set it to "lighten" and picked a dark color and brushed over a light color, the clone brush would still work as though it's set on normal mode. Give it a try. The layer mode overrides the clone brush blend mode. In fact, regardless of the blending mode the clone brush is in, it will still act as though it's on normal. Even if you select "pin light" or some crazy mode, you'll see it does nothing specific to that blend mode.
@@pratiknaikedu Okay I see where I got confused. It doesn't work on a Blank layer where there's no image or Pixels. The Clone Brush blend mode only works on a Layer that has the image or copy of the image or has pixels (that you have cloned or painted on or healed previously).. So if you have already created many cloned pixels on a new layer, and you want to go over those pixels to correct them or make them a bit more blended, the brush blend mode will work. Also if you clone on the Image or Duplicated layer it will also work.
I have done hair and have been using the brushes blend mode without realising that it was working because I was going over already created pixels...or sometimes I was fixing the Duplicate image hair (not new blank layer) that's why I thought it should work because I have done it many times..
I can show you a video of what I mean if I still have confused you
Hey Pratik,
thank you so much for posting this man, any chance I can share this on Fstoppers please? I won't be publishing any of the images but I was hoping to use the thumbnail for the lead image if possible please?
That's really kind of you! I'm asking her just now and I'll get back to you soon! If you can, e-mail me through the contact page so I can ensure you get the response.
@@pratiknaikedu Awesome thank you so much, doing that now :).
Buscaba plata y encontré oro!!!
Limited with time over here. Is there a tutorial or anything that shows how this was color graded?
Hi Pratik, What is the Hardness setting on your Clone Brush ? Thanks.
Hi! I used a 0% hardness brush on these, it ended up fitting better for me than 100% hardness.
@@pratiknaikedu Thanks for your help.
If this was for a client, and they were expecting the results of your final image. How would you price it? would you know it would take roughly 20 hours? Or would you charge a set ammount? If you said it would take about 15 hours. and then said you need another 5, how would you deal with that?
Amazing work btw! and I'm sure big companies would pay whatever for the results you give :)
Probably around $60 an hour. Fortunately you'll rarely see this in a big budget type of client setting, the hair stylist will typically nail down the flyaways with the hair prep. I intentionally picked this image because of the excess. But usually when not doing it for education purposes, I could cut this time down in half since I can deliver 95% of the same quality in much less of a time period too.
@@pratiknaikedu Thank you Pratik! Great info! :D
Sorry mr naik but the file in the link is already retouched. And we can't train or work on it
When you open the PSD file simply delete all the layers. It is not flattened. :)
I mean, Tiff file. Just open it up in Photoshop.
Next Marvel Superhero.....
Bro I have question, can I download this file u have put in description and get the original image, can I retouch this image in my way and then can I post it in my portfolio, of course I will credit the photographer, AM I allowed to do this??
Also I will make sure to credit the model, make up artist and the hair stylist as well! SO AM I ALLOWED TO DO IT in this case???
Please reply me bro.
@@tahaali2199Hi Taha, you are not allowed to use it in your portfolio, it is only for practice for personal use. Thanks for checking in!
it's a shame you can't teach you're not factual you don't go from start to finish. it's such a shame
compliment you turned bad hair into a bad wig ! well there is a reason why you don't find real high end retouchers doing TH-cam videos and promoting software like you do .... but amateur are for sure impressed by this horrible job.
Ok boomer
But you can do better with zero proof of your abilities 😂
Pls make d vid shorter and be direct. This was more of those boring history class. 55mins of giving an overview without giving d direct approach🤦👎