I used your method the other day. Easy to do and worked like a charm. Highly recommended. Aaron, all your videos are great, BTW. Used bend if for the first time yesterday after watching your video on that and accomplished exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks!
Another idea, thanks to you I learned a lot but when I get in front of my pictures I don't always know what should I do if I know how to. So maybe some video explaining where to look ? What and why change?
Great tutorials as always. What comes to the mic, it doesn't matter much to me as it doesn't impact the actual content of the tutorials, which remain outstanding. It's just a different way of sound recording and in a way a nice nod to the early days of Phlearn. Having said that, I didn't find anything at all wrong with the audio before, and in that respect the mic is an unnecessary extra element. As long there's a clear sound - and there is - I don't care how it's done.
Enjoying the video. Great stuff. I have a follow on. After you do all of this work in your new layer, what if your Background layer was a Smart Object from a raw file, and you made some kind of change, maybe using ACR. How do you get your new layer to match the new skin tones? Or do you get to start over with the retouching?
I didn't think the audio quality was bad but the new mic is a little richer. I noticed it right off and you seemed a little more stationary and a little less animated in this one. It was like you were more aware of the mic and trying to stay "in range." One of your awesome super powers is your fun and relaxed presentation style. I wouldn't trade any of that for a little better audio quality.
I did not know about the existence of the fade command, so I'd love to see its application in different types of projects. Not sure about its usefulness here though. Layer masking after completely covering the wrinkles would pretty much do the same thing faster, in addition to giving you more control to go back and forth between different levels of opacity. I'm still gonna try it out though :).
+Mart van Alem Layer masking would require all wrinkles to be faded to the same degree, or a constant change in opacity/flow when painting in with back and white, or each wrinkle dealt with on many separate layers. How is that better? Phlearn method is superior, I feel.
Hi, I love this channel, you have fantastic tutorials and I would like to ask if you have or would do an episode of the whole process from taking a photo (set up based on conditions) to post production of the same photo either using Lightroom or Photoshop.
Thank you for the great video as always. How about using opacity (or fill?) and use a different layer for every wrinkle? This way we again have more control but can also go back and readjust if we want to. Is fade better than opacity.
Does it automatically give the option to sample once you’ve selected the brush or is there something you need to press to be able to sample? Once sampled so you need to press something before selecting your wrinkle area? Thanks, great vid.
Hey Aaron, keep the mic - looks industrious! I don't see the links or info about the mic or the XLR to USB converter. Can you put that somewhere? BTW, great tutorial!
Hey Aaron - great advice as ever. Would you suggest the same technique for removing wrinkles from clothing, (I shoot a lot of historical outfits and corsetry for example), or is there a slightly faster method for larger areas of wrinkles on non-skin subjects? (Since we are so good at noticing when skin looks fake, as you point out). Thanks!
I duplicate the BG layer and on the new layer I use the healing brush to remove all wrinkles. I then go to the channels palette and make a selection of the red copy, go back to the duplicated layer and place a mask on the layer. The red channel make a perfect mask and fades away 75% of the wrinkles but doesn't look fake.
Glad I found this tutorial. But... that Edit/Fade Healing Brush never worked for me. Nothing happens. I'm on Mac Photoshop CC 2018. So instead, I had to adjust the opacity on that healing brush layer. Looks to be same result as that non-functional healing brush fade.
Idea for an episode (something a little different): How to use photoshop to edit pictures of your home, to try out different styles before remodelling; new colors on walls, new table tops in the citchen, remove cabinets or part of a wall, put in a skylight etc. Whatever you can immagine.
Love the video, don't like the big intrusive mic. Feels like its in the way, also audio gets louder and quieter depending on where you look. Use a lapel mic!
Use a Lavalier Lapel microphone. Great audio quality and shouldn't pick up background sounds. just run the wire underneath the shirt and use a color short to match the mic, usually black.
Most people will not care about seeing the microphone as long as the audio is good. They might, however, keep bugging you to tell them what kind it is. And, rather than XLR, consider simply using the Rode Podcaster. I like mine.
Sound is so much better without all the room echo. Don't mind the mic there at all. Didn't you have a smaller desktop mic in the videos from your house that still sounded good? It would be less distracting if it was smaller but the sound quality makes up for it if a smaller one can't keep up.
Fade healing brush tool doesn't appear on Photoshop v23.5 and the Fade tool under the edit menu is greyed out. I tried resetting the photoshop preferences and reboot, but no luck. Anyone else having this problem?
Hello.. Sir i saw your all tutorials and also learn lot. i have account on fiverr.com and now i got order of making vector file but i don't have Adobe illustrator, so can you Please mention a link of illustrator from where i can download ?
+ALPHA DESIGN Creative Studio As always in Photoshop, there are many ways to do things. People learn about Fade here used in one context and apply in their own. This approach also gives a bit more control and nuance as each wrinkle gets an individual opacity adjustment vs all receiving the same from layer opacity.
Great tutorial, BUT what if there's a lot of discoloration there too? When I use the healing brush tool it just copies the skin from the starting point, and sometimes it copies some of the wrinkles too and ends up with a different color; It doesn't look nowhere near as perfect as your work... It looks like discontinued copied and pasted images, not smooth at all and in different colors.
1. Great tutorial, just what I needed 2. Don't care about the microphone; most of the video is screen sharing and it's obviously not visible then. Noisy audio is like having dust spots on your sensor/image -- it shows the same lack of care about those viewing your work.
Ad Microphone - I think there are lots of high quality microphones you can have "mounted" on your t-shirt. This is great. Must be awesome audio output. But isnt the show more about images/photoshop than about the voice? Of course the voice is very important - makes the atmosphere etc. However I think if you just had a small one on your t-shirt, it can be edited nearly to the same quality level. So the conclusion is - yeah - no matter it is a nice, high quality thing - I think it distracts a bit. Cheers :)
