Photoshop CS5: Athletic Retouching Projects

Add energy, motion, and strength to portraits and shots of athletes in action, using Photoshop CS5.In Photoshop CS5: Athletic Retouching Projects, Chris Orwig demonstrates how to use Photoshop CS5 to add energy, motion, and strength to portraits and shots of athletes in action. This course covers removing blemishes from the subject and the background, adding motion blur, enhancing muscle tone, and making adjustments to photos shot in outdoor lighting conditions. Sections on underwater portraits and working with multiples subjects are also included. Exercise files accompany the course. Topics include: Creating and combining multiple exposures Repositioning subjects Enhancing color and tone Removing unwanted background elements Simplifying with selections Improving composition with cropping Toning with the High Dynamic Range (HDR) Pro toolset Enhancing eyes Changing shape and sculpting muscles with Liquify Increasing height Sharpening and creating final layer comps