Image Editing & Retouching
Content-Aware Fill, Done Properly
Content-aware fill is the Photoshop feature that fills a selected area with pixels sampled from elsewhere in the same image. Retouchers use it to remove a stray...
Imogen Clarke
Stills, retouching and real-time 3D. Writes about color management, asset pipelines and getting heavy visual work into a browser.
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Image Editing & Retouching
A Practical Guide to Generative Fill
Generative fill is the family of AI-powered editing tools that add, remove or extend image content from a selection and, optionally, a short text prompt. Adobe'...
Image Editing & Retouching
How to Get AI Subject Selection Right
AI subject selection is the family of one-click tools that use machine learning to find the main person or object in a photo and isolate it for you. In Photosho...
Image Editing & Retouching
Hair and Fine-Edge Selections: What Actually Works
Hair and fine-edge selections are the part of a cut-out that decides whether anyone believes it. A product with a hard edge can be traced with a pen path in min...
Image Editing & Retouching
Curves and Levels: The Decisions That Matter
Curves and levels are the two tonal adjustment tools that sit underneath almost every professional image edit. Levels sets three things: the black point, the wh...
Image Editing & Retouching
Blend Modes: What Actually Works
Blend modes are the settings that decide how a layer's pixels combine with the layers beneath it. Set a layer to Multiply and it can only darken what is underne...
Image Editing & Retouching
Dodge and Burn Retouching, Done Properly
Dodge and burn retouching is the practice of selectively lightening (dodging) and darkening (burning) parts of a photograph to shape form, even out skin and add...
Image Editing & Retouching
How to Get Healing Brush and Clone Stamp Right
The healing brush and clone stamp are the two tools that do most of the quiet work in professional retouching. They remove dust from a product shot, lift a stra...
Image Editing & Retouching
Product Color Variants: What Actually Works
Product color variants are images of the same item in each of its colorways, produced by digitally recoloring one photograph instead of shooting every version....
Image Editing & Retouching
Removing Reflections and Glare: What Actually Works
Removing reflections and glare is one of the most requested jobs in product and portrait retouching, and one of the most often overdone. A stainless steel kettl...
Image Editing & Retouching
Jewelry Retouching, Done Properly
Jewelry retouching is the work of turning a raw product capture of a ring, pendant, bracelet or pair of earrings into an image that shows the piece clearly and...
Image Editing & Retouching
How to Get Super Resolution and Image Upscaling Right
Super resolution and image upscaling are the techniques used to increase an image's pixel dimensions so it can be printed larger, cropped harder or displayed on...
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