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So today we are going to be retouching a product photo.
It's going to be quite simple,
but I think it's going to be quite necessary for someone who is considering
retouching their own product photos.
Now let's go into Photoshop and get right into it because I usually use a Wacom
tablet or graphics tablets, uh, when I'm doing editing.
And it's definitely something to consider.
If you're going to be doing a lot of retouching,
it just makes your life a lot more easier. It's a lot more ergonomic. Um,
you can do the same thing using a mouse, obviously, but like I say,
it's a lot more easier and a lot less stressful on your wrist and hands. Um,
this one is about a hundred years old. To be honest,
you can pick these up pretty cheap on, uh, Ebay, uh, or similar,
uh, just to get you started. Okay. So this is our image here,
straight out of the camera. And if we look at this a little bit closer,
we can see that we have a little bit of work to do before, you know, we,
we should really post this out or send this out to, um, to a client.
So if we were to zoom in close so we can see,
we have quite a lot of cleaning up to do,
and this is what I'm going to be focusing on today.
So there are some scuffs on this jar right here,
and we've got a bit of cleaning up over here to do as well. If we come down,
we can see, we have a little bit of an issue here where the ink had
smudged on the, uh, logo right here.
And again, just some general tidying up to do so.
This is how the image is.
And we want to take this up and make this a lot more presentable for yourself or
for the client. So I'm going to be using some retouching tools today.
So what I'm going to do is start from here.
One of my favorite tools is the patch tool.
So if we select the patch tool and come here, lets just zoom in to here,
we can see where these scuffs are.
We're going to try to remove some of those so lets start on this side right
here. So I'm going to come over here with the patch tool,
and I'm going to just draw a selection around the area that I want to
fix. So with that selected, all I'm going to do is drag this across.
Now I'm dragging this across to an area that is quite similar,
quite similar in texture, quite similar in lighting as well.
And that's going to make the transition or,
or the resolution process a lot easier. So virtual release that here we can see,
we've just gotten rid of that little scuff mark right here.
Let's bring this across here and we're going to do the same. Now,
what do you also have to be mindful of is that you don't take too much of a big
chunk at any one time or any, or too much of a big bite.
So if we're just select this whole thing and just try to fix that in a oner,
it probably won't look as good as if we were to take our time and just go for a
small selection and maybe just this part of it.
And we're going to drag this across here and going to take this selection
and so forth. So we can see that tidying up really nicely.
Let's try another tool, uh, from, from here, the spot healing brush,
for example, and this you're not really sampling what it does.
It does it automatically. So if we have a mark here, we're just gonna apply, um,
an appropriate sized brush for this one. So something that is slightly bigger,
again, we're trying to make it easy on the software so you can, um,
calculate what it is that it needs to do.
So we're just going to draw across that and that's gone.
It's another one here w draw across that and it's gone. And this is quite quick,
especially if you're using the tablet with the pen,
all you're doing is one brush stroke,
and you're gone one brush stroke, and you're good to go.
So let's just come over here and just clean up some of this.
And you going to go around the image and to see if there's anything that needs
touching up or retouching?
So let's come down here again.
We can just use the spot healing brush to get rid of most
of these blemishes on the product right here. Okay.
So let's come in a little bit closer and we can see, we have a,
more of a tricky situation in here with the E on this logo
right here, for some reason, the ink got smudged,
and this is pretty much all over the place. So we have to try to, you know,
bring that back to some sort of a former glory.
So again, what I'm going to start with here,
and there is no right or wrong way, or, you know,
you can just figure out what might be the best solution to use,
and go ahead for that.
But I'll show you a few different options that we can use here.
So I'm going for the patch tool again, here,
select the area that I want to remove or fix,
and I'm dragging it to an area that looks decent or looks good.
And we can see we've gotten rid of most of that. And the texture has remained,
and that's quite important at this point to retain the texture
in the area that you're moving it to. I'm going to show you an alternative, uh,
method of cleaning this up.
And that is by using the brush tool.
So what I'm going to do is essentially take a color or sample a color,
which you do by holding down option and making a selection.
So I'm going to see like a color from here. Now, if you go down to pixel level,
there can be quite a few different colors just within this space right here,
but I won't get into all of that.
I've just selected a color sample the color from here.
And I'm just going to use the brush I'm at about 60%.
I'm bringing it down to 50% and I'm just going to brush in here.
Sure. Essentially,
I've got a paintbrush with a color on it and I'm just painting it here.
Now, the disadvantage about doing this is that it does not retain your texture.
So you have to use it sparingly and you have to kind of know where and when to
use this. It does not retain texture.
It just takes one color and it painted over whatever it is
that youre painting it over. But, um,
if we come up here again and it's going to sample down and it's very important
to keep sampling from different areas as you move,
because the colors may be slightly different.
So I'm just trying to what I'm going to do as well as increase the hardness on
this brush so that the edges are a bit harder
so that where we can have an edge on what it is that we, um,
we're painting in here. And we just try to reform this as much as we can.
I'm going to sample down here, let's attack this bottom portion of the E.
And I'm just going to try to bring that in. Just restore that to where,
where it was. So its kind of gotten rid of the smudge areas,
but what we want to do is kinda bring back this dark ink.
So there's grayish ink im going to sample again,
using the brush tool this grayish ink and was going to paint back in
this area right here. Just paint that back in again,
opacity is at 50% should always start low. And if,
if you need to apply another brush stroke, then you can do that.
im just going to paint in some more here just to add some definition back
into the ink and just there's this middle portion right here. Okay.
Well for it.
And what we can then do is go back and re-sample here and just sharpen it
up. Don't on this bottom edge right here, up at the top. Again,
we need to do some in here. Okay.
And I can say, you can do this with the most,
but it's a lot more easier using a pen, especially when you're making a.
Detailed retouches like this. All right. So that's.
Not looking too terrible. And I mean,
you can really finesse this and go into a much more detailed
with this one here. But what we want to do now is then move over here.
So what we can see can use the same method. We've lost this one right here,
and we can definitely use that same method about painting this back in.
But what I'm going to also do is show you another little trick right here.
So what we're going to do is get our selection tool,
use the L for the lasso tool.
And I'm going to select this one because we have the same digit on this side.
So we can kind of get away with this little trick right here.
We right click on this and save the layer or create a layer
via copy.
And that just creates what we've just selected it as another copy.
And if we go.
To move that.
So we can see what we were just moving this across.
So we can then move this across here.
And that.
Works. You don't even have to do anything else to that. Um, right there,
we're going to do just drop that down,
that layer down to approximately 90% so that it
blends in just a little bit more. And we can just leave that as is.
I'm going to go ahead and, um, just merge those two layers,
right?
So we're looking a lot better than where we are coming from.
There's some more bits and pieces down here that we really need to tidy up.
Sometimes you don't see this when you're shooting and you have a little bit of
respite when it comes to the retouching these,
it's going to go for the spot healing brush.
I want.
To quickly tidy these up. And like I say,
you can go into a lot finer details..
The thing about retouching is that when you remove something, you know,
big or blaringly obvious,
then the little things start becoming more obvious,
and then you can be here for ages till they get every tiny scratch out
of your image. Okay. So now if we zoom in on this a little bit more,
and we do the before and after,
so this is after the cleanup and we'll go back to the before,
and this is definitely looking way better than when we actually started.
And your clients will definitely thank you for taking the time out to go
ahead and make this image as best as it can be.
And that is pretty much it guys. So, I mean,
you can kind of avoid a lot of this or most of this by making sure that your
product arrives or your product that you're shooting is in pristine condition.
And sometimes these things happen beyond your control,
and that is what you have to work with.
So let's say that that is what you have to work with,
then that is a way out of it, but that is it for today's video.
Thank you for joining me on this one, catch you on the next one. Peace.