Photoshop CS3: Essential Skills

retouching projects

Mark Galer

essential skills

~   Develop skills using layers, adjustment layers, channels and layer masks.

~   Retouch and enhance images using the following techniques and tools:

–   Lens Correction Filter and Warp

–   Adjustment layers and layer masks

–   Target tones

–   Healing Brush, Clone Stamp Tool and Stamp Tool

–   Shadow/Highlight adjustment

–   High Pass, Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen.

Correcting perspective – Project 1

Many photographers prematurely jump to the conclusion that Photoshop is solely a tool for distorting reality or fabricating an alternative reality (the expression ‘it’s been photoshopped’ still ...