From the course: Enhancing an Environmental Portrait of a Model in Photoshop

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Removing blemishes and organizing the layers

Removing blemishes and organizing the layers - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Enhancing an Environmental Portrait of a Model in Photoshop

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Removing blemishes and organizing the layers

- In this brief movie, we will be re-touching away a few small blemishes and we'll also organize our layers. In order to re-touch away the two areas that I want to work on, it will work best if we merge all of our underlying layers to the topmost layer. To do that, we can press a shortcut key combination, which is "shift + opt + cmd + E" on a Mac, "shift + alt + ctrl + E" on Windows. Let's go ahead and double click this layer name. We'll call this "Cleanup-2." Next, we're gonna use our lasso tool, you can find that over here or you can click the "L" key to select it. We're gonna add just a little bit of feathering here, maybe one pixel. Then let's make a lasso selection around the foot, which is sticking out right here. I want to get rid of that foot. I also want to get rid of the highlight in the background. So hold down the "Shift" key and make another selection around this highlight which we have here, reflection or whatever it is, and then let's go to our option where we can fill…

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