in this video I'm going to show you two of my top editing techniques
that I use in almost all of my portrait photos
Hi guys my name is Eustace
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let's do this
First technique I'm going to show you how to add shine to your image and make your image pop
I'm going to add a new layer I'm going to go down here
then I'll go on my tools here and select the brush tool
I'll go on brushes here and then I'm going to select the hard brush
I'll make the brush a little bit smaller using the brackets on the keyboard
I'll just paint like that
so I'll go on this layer
I'll just double click here and then the layer style is going to pop up
I'm going to go on underlining layer here
I'm going to drag this triangle this side somewhere here
and then I'm going to alternate on the keyboard
and then I'm going to drag the other part of the triangle to break this triangle
I'm going to drag it this side
I'm going to let go somewhere here and then I'm going to click OK
I'll go to filter
blur
and then gaussian blur
just type 70 here
and then I'm going to click OK
I'm going to go to my brushes here and then select the soft round brush
I'll make the brush a little bit bigger and then I'll just paint this part
I'll make the brush a little bit bigger again and then I'll just paint this part
I'm going to paint even this part I'm going to paint even this part like that
I'll reduce the opacity to
20 percent
this is our before this is our after
I'm going to go to my tools here
then I'm going to select the curvature pen tool
I'm going to go on my image I'll make a point here and then
I'll make another point here in the middle of this line
I'll make another point here and then I'll drag it up like this
and then I'll just click here
I'll join this line I'll click here to join it
and then I'll make another point here and then I'll drag it out like this
I'm going to go inside my selection
right click and then I'm going to select make selection
so I'm going to use the radius of one and then click OK
I'm going to go on adjustment layer here and then I'm going to select curves
let me push it here
I'll make a point in the middle of the curve I'll push it up so that I can brighten this part
I'm going to go to filter
blur
and then gaussian blur
I'm going to use the radius of one hundred just going to type one hundred here
and then I'm going to click OK
let me close this
this is our before this is our after
I'm going to make a point here and then I'll make another point somewhere here
I'll make a point in the middle and then I'll push it up
I'll just click here I'll make a point here
and then I'll make a point in the middle
and then I'll drag it down like that
I'm going to go inside my selection
right click
and then I'm going to select make selection
radius one
and then click OK
I'm going to go to adjustment layers here and then I'm going to select the curves
I'm going to make a point in the middle of the curve
I'll drag it down like that to make my selection darker
I'll drag it down
and then I'm going to go to filter
blur
and then I'll select the gaussian blur
I'm going to use the radius of hundred
I'm going to click OK
let me close this
so this is our before this is our after
this is our before this is our after
so let me put these adjustments into a group
I'm going to select this curves then I'm going to hold shift on the keyboard
then I'm going to select layer 1
hold ctrl plus G on the keyboard to put them into a group
and this is our before this is our after
this is our before this is our after
so if you feel like the effect is too much you can just open the folder
you reduce the opacity of the curve like this
so this is our before this is our after
this is our before this is our after
so the next thing that I'm going to do I'm just going to color grade the image
I'm going to go to adjustment layer
and then I'm going to select color lookup
I'm going to go to load 3D lut I'm going to select load 3D lut
so I'm going to use my WEDDING PRO LUTs PACK
I'll put the link in the description below
if you're interested in my Wedding LUTs Pack
I'm going to start with the champagne
so this is our before this is our after
I'm going want to reduce the opacity to 50 percent
so this is our before this is our after
I'm going to go back to load 3D Lut I'm going to select load 3D Lut
I'm going to use the crisp brown
so this is our before this is our after
I'm going to go to load 3D lut and then I'm going to select load 3D lut
then I'm going to select the fountain
so this is our before this our after
I'm going to go back to load 3D lut then I'm going to select maybe one tree
so this is our before this is our after
I'm going to go back to load 3D lut then load 3d lut
and then I'm going to select sticker
so this is our before this is our after
I'm going to go back to load 3D lut load 3D lut
I'm going to use the fountain for this photo
I'm going to use the fountain
I'm going to use this one
so this is our before this is our after
I'm going to put these adjustments into a group
I'm going to select the color lookup then I'm going to hold shift
and then I'm going to select this folder
I'm going to hold control plus G on the keyboard to put these adjustments into a group
so this is our before all the adjustments this is our after
this is our before this is our after
if you feel like the effect is too much you can just go back to these adjustments
these adjustments and reduce the opacity
so in this other technique I'm just going to show you how to make specific colors stand out more
so I'm going to go down here on this adjustment layer
and then I'm going to select selective color I'm going to select the layer mask
and then I'm going to hold ctrl plus I on the keyboard to invert the layer mask
I'm going to go on my tools then I'll select the brush tool
since the layer mask here is black
I'm going to set my foreground color to white I can just click on this icon to switch between
the foreground color and the background color or I can just press X on the keyboard
I'm going to make the brush a little bit bigger using the brackets on the keyboard
and then I'll just paint here
you can't see the effect because I haven't done anything to this adjustment layer
I'm just painting on the color that I want to change
so I want to change this color I'll paint even this part
I want to change even this color
you can see here it's changing I'll just paint like that
and then I'm going to double click on this icon
I'm going to go to colors here
I'll change from reds to yellows and then I'll just drag this
only the places that I was painting
are the places that are changing I'm going to take it down like this
I'm going to change the colors to reds and then I can make it like that
can make it like that
so this is our before this is our after
this is our before this is our after
so this is the color that I want to target
the blues
so I'm going to go down on this adjustment layer then I'm going to select the selective color
I'm going to select the layer mask
and then I'm going to hold ctrl plus I on the keyboard to invert it
and then I'm going to go to my tools then with the brush selected
I'm going to set the foreground color to white and then I'll just paint here
you can't see the effect because I haven't changed the colors just yet
and then I'm going to paint in this part like that
you can see here it's changing so I'll make the brush a little
bit smaller using the brackets on the keyboard
then I'll just paint like that
and then I'm going to go on this icon I'll just double click on it
and then I'm going to change from reds to blues so I'm going to drag it this side
so you can see it's changing now
then the magenta
change it to this
the yellows
I'll drag the the yellows down to negative hundred
so this is our before this is our after
this is our before this is our after
let me close this
this is our before this is our after
so this is the process
you can go ahead
if you want you can change this color you can even change this other color here
so I'm going to put these adjustments into a group
so I'm going to select the selective color 2
and then I'm going to hold ctrl
and then I'm going to select
the selective color one
and then I'm going to hold ctrl plus G on the keyboard
to put them into a group like this
so this is our before this is our after
this is our before this is our after
the next thing that I'm going to do
I'm just going to color grade the image I'm going to go down on this adjustment layer
and then I'm going to select color lookup
and then I'm going to go to load 3D lut then I'm going to select the load 3D lut
this time I'm going to color grade this image
using my VINTAGE 2.0 LUTs PACK so I'm going to select the Corduroy
if you feel like the effect is too much just reduce the opacity to maybe 50 percent
this is our before this is our after
I'm going to go back to load 3D lut then I'm going to select the load 3D lut
and then I'm going to select the signature seven
so this is our before this is our after
if you feel like the effect is too much you can just reduce the opacity
so I'm going to go to load 3D lut then I'm going to select the load 3D lut
and then I'm going to select the EK ONE
okay
let me close it
so this is our before this is our after
this is our before this is our after
I'm going to select the color lookup one then I'm going to hold shift
then I'm going to select this group
and then I'm going to hold ctrl plus G on the keyboard to put these adjustments into a group
ctrl G
and then this is our before this is our after
this is our before this is our after
so if you want to retouch fast and level up your retouching skills
you should check out my RETOUCHING ACTIONS PACK
the link will be in the description below
if you want to learn how to retouch using the frequency separation at the mixer brush
you should check this video on top
and if you want to learn how to retouch using my retouching actions pack
you should check this video down here
I'll see you
in the next one!!!