8 Lightroom to Photoshop for Retouching

Lesson overview

Photoshop is renowned for its retouching capabilities—you can use it for everything from intricate portrait refinements to larger-scale content removal and repositioning. So when your desire to change the reality of a photo exceeds the abilities of Lightroom’s Spot Removal tool, you can send the photo over to Photoshop for more serious pixel-pushing voodoo.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use Photoshop to:

  • Remove objects using the Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, and Patch tools.

  • Remove objects using the Content-Aware Fill command.

  • Reposition objects using the Content-Aware Move tool.

  • Resize your image using the Content-Aware Scale command.

  • Smooth skin without losing ...

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