Comments on: VIDEO : Bert Retouches a Portrait of Erika

By: Pieter

Pieter — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:42:37 +0000

Great video Bert,
thanks for sharing your tricks with us!

By: tobibu

tobibu — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:49:05 +0000

Hi,

I’m not quite sure about the patch-tool, but for operators who use the clone stamp or the healing brush: You dont’t need to make a copy of your original picture. You can just create a new layer, make sure “use all layers” or “use all layers below” is active and this way you can paint into a new empty layer.

In this case it is an ease to erase your stampings at any time later or mask them. As well as you will save quite some memory in terms of RAM and file size to.

Greets from Germany,

excellent job though

tobibu

By: Kevin Lanier

Kevin Lanier — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:30:22 +0000

Hey…….Bert……do you have the post processing (or can you make) a post processing preset for me (save it) and email me or tell me where I can download it. This is the post processing of Erica. Thanks, Kevin

By: Arnaud

Arnaud — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:00:16 +0000

Thanks for the screencast, it’s great to have the explanation of why you’re doing something along with how.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:00:37 +0000

Never actually used the patch tool before (only the healing and spot removal tools). Tried it on a couple of images (especially under the eyes) and it wonderfully well. Thanks for the tip

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:23:15 +0000

Bert, I like your post processing style a lot, and I do similar adjustments as well.
I really like boosting the black levels, as well giving the picture a warmer tone.

By: pepin

pepin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:36:06 +0000

Hi Bert!

Thanks for the screencast. I’ve been wondering how your PP workflow goes.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:23:15 +0000

Great tutorial Bert. I have not tried the patch tool so it was very informative. I especially liked what it did with the shadows under the eyes.

Great work. Lime is always a must stop on my daily routine.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:29:14 +0000

Many thanks for sharing this! I did not know about the patch tools or healing brush in PS. It will be very handy when the spot removal in LR is not enough.

By: One Mojito later

One Mojito later — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:08:31 +0000

Nice to see how you post process your image Bert. I never used the patch tool that way and find it very interesting. The healing brush usually does a great job except in high contrast areas where it becomes smudgy.
Interesting to note is the difference in vignetting and post crop vignetting. Matt Kloskowski made an interesting video on it. You’ll see that is not only the vignetting as such (prr or post-crop) but also that way the vignetting is done.
http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2009/video-tip-the-truth-behind-vignetting-and-edge-darkening/