From the course: Photoshop and Lightroom: Portrait Retouching in the Age of AI

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Creating an awesome portrait from start to finish

Creating an awesome portrait from start to finish

- [Instructor] In this movie, we are going big. We're going to dig deep into a workflow, which will involve some advanced techniques and tips. We'll look at how we can change the shape of the hat, how we can darken the hat, darken the background, darken the shirt, how we can use AI to improve the eyes, how we can add a little bit of clarity and also do kind of this fun contrast look. Now we're going to do all of that which will entail creating a lot of layers, but a lot of these we'll create and then flatten. So let's dig in and let me show you what we'll be doing here. On the hat, what I want to do is, I want to select the top portion of the hat. So I'll grab my little lasso tool here and I'm going to make a rough little selection of this area. And then I'll go to AI and say, "Hey AI, can you help me out? I have this little puffy part of the hat that I want to get rid of. Can you somehow cover this up and create for me a clean or good edge?" And so we'll just click through some of…

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