While AI automation grows within the open ecosystem, true digital competence requires creative control. This quick video focuses on manual, non-destructive skin retouching in Photoshop to achieve natural results without the synthetic “uncanny valley” look of AI presets.
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Thank you for sharing your Photoshop touchup techniques- I have been using this software since the early 1990s and feel like there’s more I don’t know than I do! I should try using curves more, it’s a bit of guesswork, but here you show you can do more fine tuning than with brightness and contrast.
The clone tool is one of my all time favorites- I use it often to remix images where say I want to add my own title for a film poster, and to remove distractions too. It takes much practice but you get very close to the image.
And I have never used the camera roll filter, I can’t wait to explore it.
Thank you for sharing your expertise.
I bet if anyone wants to know how to do some kind of image/photo edit that Arren might be able to show you.
Wow. Hearing that from someone who has been using Photoshop since the early 90s is such a massive honor. You’ve literally seen the software evolve from its roots as I began to use this in the version of CS5 (Released in 2010)
And I love that you’re using the Clone Stamp for poster titles, that takes real patience and a sharp eye !
Definitely explore into the Camera Raw Filter when you have time. It saves so much time compared to stacking dozens of adjustment layers.
Thanks sir !