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Ageing the Face I: Gray Hair
Summary:
You'll find thousands of videos about making people younger on the internet but to age someone is something different. Kate Breuer shows how to do it.
The main point of this first of three parts is to gray the hair. Kate uses different techniques and adjustment layers to gray the hair and make it look old. Gray hair is the first step to an aged person.
In the second part, Kate is going to explain how to add wrinkles and how to make the characteristic parts of the face look sagging. The final part will be about aging the image itself and make it look like it lay in a photo box for years and years.
After all three parts you'll be abgle to age a person and a face!
Renaissance Look
Summary:
Rüdiger Schestag created a German series of videos explaining how to create an antique painted look from your photos. Kate Breuer recorded the Photoshop part in English.
In this tutorial she uses the photograph Rüdiger Schestag used in the German version and follows his steps, explaining which steps are necessary to make your photos look like they were on old canvas. She explains how to get rid of flying hair and skin flaws and how to optimize the mood of the photograph. In addition, she explains how to add lights, shadows and structure. At the end of those steps the result is a wonderful Renaissance Portrait.
Fog Creation
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Fog can make every place more mystical. Learn how to create fog using simple photoshop techniques from photographer Kate Breuer.
Kate Breuer first adds some loose fog with a pencil. Afterwards she adds some denser fog using one of the render filters from Photoshop.
By combining this techniques she creates realistic fog that adds to the atmosphere of the image.
Whitening the Skin
Summary:
Learn how to create the porcelain like skin you see in the magazines with some easy techniques from photographer Kate Breuer.
Kate Breuer will show you two possible ways to achieve the wanted look. At first, she will show you how to do it in Lightroom using only the possibilities a Raw conversion offers.
In addition, she will switch to Adobe Photoshop and show you how to get nice results in photoshop, where you can't use the same way as in Lightroom or another Raw-Converter.
She uses a little trick to acomplish the goal of a white skin.
Watch this video and learn the technique to create a skin like this yourself!
The Gaussian Blur
Summary:
The Gaussian Blur filter is probably the filter with the most prejudices about it. Nonetheless, it can be a useful tool.
In this video, Kate Breuer shows, what the Gaussian Blur filter does and what it can be used for.
The first step is skin retouching. She blures the image using the Gaussian Blur at a layer, she converted for smart filters. Afterwards, she adds some noise, to make the skin look like it still has pores.
In addition, Kate Breuer shows a way to use the Gaussian Blur as a tool to add contrast and glamour to an image, as you know it from magazines.
Glazy Spots
Summary:
Without a professional make-up artist, getting glazy spots is absolutely normal. When not usind matte powder or when the location is how, the model will get glazy spots when sweating a bit.
In this video, Kate Breuer shows, how to get rid of them with Photoshop. She shows different techniques, to eliminate those flaws in your pictures.
One of those techniques is the double RAW conversion, where Kate creates two RAW conversions, one for the glazy spots, one for the rest of the image.
Another technique is using the on-board possibilities of Adobe Photoshop, e.g. the stamp tool at decreased opacity.
Pencil Effect
Summary:
If you want to convert a photography into a drawing, but are unable to draw properly, this is the right video for you. In this video, Kate Breuer show the technique.
She starts from a normal photograph and shows, how to create a drawing from it, only by using the Photoshop on-board techniques and filters.
She creates a black & white edition and two different colored editions, using opacity and layer masks. In addition, she explains, what is important about the original photograph to achieve a result, that looks real.
Learn how to do this with only a few easy steps and make others look at your photo-based drawings with amazement.
Digital Powdering
Summary:
Retouching the skin is one of those topics, where every retoucher is of a different opinion, on what the best solution is. There are many ways to do it - each of them with different advantages and disadvantages.
In this video Kate Breuer shows an efficient and good-looking way to smoothen the skin. At the beginning of her video she shows, how to get rid of the pimbles and acne. Next step is the technique of digital powdering.
Digital Powdering is a combination of two filters and the layer's blending mode. It smoothens the skin without loosing the structur of the pores. The result is nearly perfect skin without having to retouch for more than a few minutes.
Retouching the Male Body II
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In this tutorial Photoshop expert Kate Breuer shows us, how to retouch a male body.
In this second part, Kate Breuer shows some techniques to work out the muscles. In addition, she explains, how to create some atmosphere and how to use vignettes to guide the viewer through your image.
In the end, you will learn, how to use the Niksoftware filters to add the last final look to your image.
Retouching the Male Body I
Summary:
In this tutorial Photoshop expert Kate Breuer shows us, how to retouch a male body.
In this first part, Kate Breuer shows some quick techniques saving you hours of dodging and burning. In addition, she explains, how to emphasize the micro contrast of your image to create a more plastic look.