hey guys! welcome back to my channel. I am doing the mom thing today in the office
we can literally see Clara asleep in the background but I just wanted to intro
this video for you really quick before you start to see the Photoshop tutorial.
you're gonna be learning not only how to swap ahead in a group photo, but change
the direction of someone's eyes! which can really come in handy as wedding
photographers when we take a lot of group photos and not everybody's looking...
always, so this is a game changer I hope that you guys learned something and
enjoyed this video style. if you enjoy this style of video and you want to see
more- Anthony is willing to come back and make this a series so please leave your
Photoshop suggestions in the comment section below I'll see you guys as usual
over in the photo boss Facebook group and of course I'll see you next week bye
guys. hello everyone! my name is Anthony Bolognese. I am a fashion lifestyle and
event photographer and from what everybody in my photography Network
keeps telling me I'm pretty good at Photoshop. so today we're gonna be taking
one of Joy's wedding photos and using it to show how you can replace the face of
somebody in a group photo so long as you have another face of theirs to choose
from in this image the bridesmaid on the far right blinked and this is a super
common occurrence in group photos like this what might not be super common is
that this is the only other image we have from this setting to take that face
from and she's looking off to her left so you guys are in for some work today
we're first going to use our quick selection tool and select your new face
and hair from the other image I would rather select too much intermit down
instead of just selecting the face and having to redo the process to take more
information from the new photo once I've done that I'll go to the Select menu up
top and click invert or hit command shift I if you're into shortcuts and on
a Mac and that'll select everything else from this image other than what I just
chose out of her face and hair I'll try to hit delete and then remember that I
need to rest or as the layer because I never ever ever remember to rasterize
until Photoshop reminds me that I have to so now I'm left with the floating
head but at least her eyes are open I'll show me that around until I'm happy
with the rough placement and I'll get to work on her eyes very quickly before I
do that I'll take the eraser brush and just kind of clean up the edges of her
head clean up the hair and make it a little bit less poofy for this part
we're going to try the quick selection tool again but the programs brain wants
to select too much so let's go with the lasso tool just for more precision will
select the iris of one of her eyes and and move it over so that she's looking
at us now after we've got that centered we noticed that this dead space exists
where her iris used to be no worries we'll just select our brush tool hold
alt and click on their remaining whites of her eye and then use that color to
fill in the other side there will be a lot of color selecting and brushing to
basically paint her eye socket back to life and make it so that the pixel
gradient is invisible when zoomed out as you can see during this process there's
a lot of hard edges and that's something that you're gonna want to take care of
so you want that gradient to be nice and smooth but you still want there to be a
rough jump between the iris and the white of her eyes now as hilarious as it
would be to say we're done now it's time to do the same thing to the other eye
lasso tool brush pick your colors and paint your way to direct eye contact
as I mentioned the software you can get that gradient between her iris and the
whites of her eyes the more convincing this Photoshop job will look it's not
gonna look like there's so many hard edges and it's not gonna look
photoshopped
I'm taking a decent chunk of time to make sure that the shape of her iris is
correct as well as that gradient I don't want there to be any too dark spots or
too light spots
now that we've done that and zoomed out I realized that I kind of over
compensated and now she's looking a little bit too far to the right I very
easily could have just cut the first part out where I messed up but Photoshop
work can be the most tedious part of the photography process and I don't want
anybody to be discouraged about not getting it right the first try I've been
doing this for five years I still get it wrong just like this so that's just
something that is a reality in the life of a photographer especially someone who
chooses to actually edit their photos in this way so it's the same process again
will lasso each iris once more adjusted a tiny bit back to the right and get her
looking at us some people have died by the mentality that perfect is the enemy
of good I only believe that in certain circumstances Photoshop is not one of
those circumstances so perfection is definitely something that I strive for
zooming out and viewing the photo from it's full 100% perspective the way the
client is actually going to be seeing it is the greatest gauge of perfection for
me so if there's anything that I see wrong looking at it at its full size I
know that my job's not done
now once you zoom out to 100% you can't see any of those little little details
switching back and forth between the two I do notice that I've also added a lot
of volume to her hair which is an accidental bonus I'm sure she'll be
happy about that I do realize that I'm not super super
happy with the placement of her head now so now that the eye detail is done I can
work on the larger scale issues with her hair and the alignment of her skin
between the two versions of her head and kind of work on those details so we'll
take the eraser brush and kind of paint out those details get the more of her
chest showing feature that little necklace
that she has on and kind of clean up those edges
the little blurriness below her ear I'll erase all that and kind of clean up that
edge I want to make sure that the earring is still distinguishable
I also want to click the smudge tool and kind of blend the skin tone just between
the shadows in those two versions of that image so looking back between the
two I see a little bit more of an issue with her hair I'm just on the right
there so I'm gonna go in and take care of that with the eraser tool once more
and as soon as that is smoothed out I believe this image to be done and just
like that and about 10 minutes of real-time editing
we've gone from a blooper to a sellable image thanks for watching again my name
is Anthony Bolognese and if you liked this tutorial check out my channel
Anthony Bolognese where I take requests for tutorials and will edit your photos
in a video just like this just to show you how to do it yourself I also provide
Photoshop editing services like this for other photographers who are too busy or
don't yet know how to do it themselves I want to thank joy again for having me
create this video for your channel if you want to see more content like this
leave her a comment and let her know I love doing it I love fixing people's
photos and kind of teaching them how to make the most out of the images that
they have created thanks guys and I hope to see you again soon when are you gonna
start photoshopping for me you guys are pulling your weight around here someday
right I can be my in-house Photoshop er deal alright guys thank you so much for
watching please excuse my messy office and inability to record myself without a
tripod share inside the comment section what you'd like to learn in Photoshop
because Anthony is willing to come back make more tutorials what would be most
helpful for you guys throw it in the comment section below and I'll see you
next week