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so hello and welcome everyone to noble , desktops first YouTube live stream my , name is Dan Rodney and I'm a course , developer and an instructor her eat , noble desktop for the past W years , we'vie been teaching all sorts of design , and code related technologies so we , teach things like Web Design and various , Adobe applications so we teach how to , create web page show to retouch photos , so we teach Photo shop Illustrator , Intestinal sorts of the Adobe apps as , well as how to create websites with HTML , CSS and JavaScript those are the kind of , things that we teach and you can take , course sin person in New York City or , you can attend them live online as well , and you could do a screen share in and , watch the instructor computer as they're , demonstrating and kind of join the class , virtually we also have wonderful work , books which are step-by-step learning , guides and that's a great way to learn , in addition to our classes today we're , going to be doing demonstration on old , Photo shop restoration of old photo , restoration using Photo shop so we're , going to take a look at Arnold photo and , we're going to restore it we're going to , color correct it and make it look better , so that's going to be the goal for today , we have some written instructions so , that you can practice this later on you , don'thieve to do this during the live , stream I'm not expecting you to follow , along as I'm demonstrating because we , already have the instructions all , written down for you so into the chat we , have posted the link to the goodies page , and that is also in the course in the , video description below the video as , well and so you can go to the goodies , page at any points and scroll down to , the old photo restoration and download , the handout as well as the class files , and let me actually'll do a screen , share here switch over to my screen and , show you that so let me switch over so , let's say you go to that page Noble , Desktop comm slash goodies just scroll , down here and you can get the , instructions for CC which is , basically the same asks if you're , still using C's it should pretty much be , similar but we also have separate C's , instructions Justin case they were , different , downloads your set of instructions which , is PDF as well as the class files and , in those instructions are every step of , doing what we're going to be showing , today so that said I'veal ready , downloaded the class file sand I'm ready , to go so let's get started put that , off-screen there alright so let's take , look at the final example of what we're , going to do today in the files that you , download we have two versions the , starter image and the finished image so , let's open those two things up I'm going , to open those up in Photo shop , all right so this is the original image , that we're starting with just going to , go to fit this on screen and same thing , with this one fit that one onscreen as , wellie get these as large as possible , for you so this is the before and after , so we still wan tit to feel like an old , photo we still want to respect the age , we don't want it to necessarily feel , like brand-new photo we want people to , know that it's an older photo but we , want it to look better than what we're , starting with here so we're going to , need to do some clearing out of these , block blobs and blotches in various , places and we're also going to need to , color correct it as well so the contrast , is kind of lacking we want to boost the , contrast and there's just lots of dust , and scratches this is a really beat-up , old image so we want to improve a lot of , those dust and scratches and also if you , notice in the final we have given it a , nicer color as well so it's kind of got , Little bit of a brownish tone but we , wanted to give iota nicer warmer richer , brown a nice sepia tone so so we like , that that color a little bit better than , the origin also so we'll retouch it , color correct it adjust the contrast and , overall make it look better but while , still respecting the heritage of this , original old photo so that's the goal , what we're going to do so I'm going to , go ahead and close that and to get , started with this the first thing that , we want to do is to not work on the , background directly we want to work on a , separate copy of the layer because it's , important to see the before and the , after to see our progress and make sure , that we're going in the right direction , and the best way find to do that is to , work on a copy and be able to hide and , show the work that you'redone so you , can quickly compare the work you'vie done , to the original so instead of working on , the background we're going to work on a , copy of that now you can do that by , going up to layer new layer via copy or , the keystroke for that is command J or , on Windows that'scuttle J and I think if , J is jump copy to a new layer so , that's going to jump a copy to a new , layer now that we have that new layer , we can give that a better name something , like remove blob sand we're going to , start by retouching away the major blobs , kind of these three this top part this , one which is the biggest one and there's , a little blue one down here on the , bottom left on this guy's cheek so we'll , get rid of those fir stand then we'll do , the color and getting rid of kind of the , rest of the stuff so so we're going to , see a variety of ways that you can , tackle these blobs so we're going to , zoom in up on this one fir stand the , first way we're going to do is by , selecting it and letting Photo shop get , rid of it , Photocopies pretty amazing at getting , rid of stuff for you and we'll see a , Photo shop can do our work for us so we , just ha veto select this area first and , then we can tell Hotshot get rid of , it when you're doing the selection for , this oh and now in the latest Photo shop , W they're really pushing their new , select and mask feature don't really , want to do that right now so I'm going , to say close that so that it dozen't , bother me again that was their way of , saying hey there's a new feature IN , so now that that'sot of the way I have , this lasso selection here and Id on't , have to be super super close you know , you don't ha veto be very very tight and , accurate you want to when making this , selection be a little bit away from the , edge you want to make sure that you have , all of the stuff that you want to remove , and just overlap the kind of good stuff , by just a little bit but you want to , make sure that you have entirely , selected the bad stuff and then , Photo shop is going to look around and , take the surrounding stuff and kind of , fill in this space with surrounding , stuff so we're going to fill using edit , fill now I know in the menu here they , show this key stroke which has been , around for a long time shift fend the , thing about it five is who's going to , remember versus versus fit's , kind of hard to remember that but , there's a better keyboard shortcut that , they don't actually mention her ewe , mentioned this in our handout for you , but it's shift delete or if you'Reno , windows shift backspace so you can hit , shift delete or shift backspace to get , to this dialog or of course if you don't , remember that key , joke you can say edit fill so we're , going to let Worshipful this area , for us the default here should be , content-aware but if it wan't with , something else we want to make sure that , we choose content aware and so this is , going to be aware of the content it's , going to figure out hey what should be , there based on surrounding stuff and it , often works well if there's kind of , similar stuff all the way around that it , can kind of absorb in and pull into this , and it's actually pretty darn genius so , I'm going to click OK and when I , deselect we see that did a really darn , amazing job it is quite amazing how well , this often works so when you want to get , rid of things you can go in and say your , edit fill just click OK and it just , magically kind of looks around sucks it , in mixes it IPA little bit and really , does a tremendous job actually a lot of , the time so for example over here this , is a huge blob that we can go in and get , rid of we round choose this and because , you do this quite a bit that's why I , mention that keyboard shortcut of using , shift deletes to bring up the fill , dialog because you can just hit shift , delete or on windows shift backspace and , just hit your return or Enter key and , Dishtowel go in and figure out what , to put there now let's say it did't , give you the best result right away it , will make multiple guesses that are , different so if you do it again shift , delete again or in Windows shift , backspace hit return again it will make , a second guess so you can keep doing , that multiple times if at first you , don'succeed try try again , until you get something that you like , and alto of times I ha veto say it is , just utterly amazing and works really , really well but let's say it just USN't , doing it for you let's say it'snot , doing your job in this case it actually , does an amazing job but I'm going to , back up to when I just had made my lasso , here if it's not doing a good job , there's other ways we can help out , Photo shop and tell it what to do , so let's see other ways because it's a , great example of when you might want to , do other things and we we don't know , what your old photo is going to be like , it could be having totally different , issues than this particular image so we , want you to have a variety of techniques , that you can employ for your imagery we , don't know what's going to work well in , your imagery so down here where we have , the healing tools hidden here behind the , Spot Healing Brush there is a patch tool , and the patch tool will take a selection , and you can go somewhere else and use , some other content to come back and , patch this it's kind of like copy paste , blend is kind of the way that it works , so you select the source of the problem , so right up here notice it's set to , source now the patch up here right now , is set to normal but that content-aware , type technology tutorship has is , actually better kind of surprised that , the patch tool dozen'default to , content-aware many versions ago , Photo shop only had a normal patch tool , it then became content-aware , and in every other case Photo shop , defaults to being content aware because , normally that technology is just much , smarter than the older technologies but , for whatever reason they don't default , to content we're not exactly sure , so why they're doing that so when you , choose content aware it's going to do , generally better quality for you so if , you drag this selection somewhere else , the cool thing about this is it unlike , the content where fill you get to choose , what goes in there so you can choose hey , I want some of the darker stuff or I , want some of the lighter stuff now it's , still going to do a blending so you , don't know until you let go exactly how , this is going to look but you're getting , a pretty darn good idea of you know , somewhat how it's going to look in terms , of the textural quality and you know you , have control over what'seagoing to be put , there so if Inlet go it's going to blend , in the edges and make sure that you , don'see those but it takes the texture , of what you were putting into there and , blends it in so let me undo that again , so if I come and I take some of this , stuff , watch the texture that I'm going to get , and it's going to blend that texture in , but it's going to keep the edges kind of , soft and fuzzy even though I did't have , an actual feathered selection even , though this was a crisp edge selection , the goal of the patch tool is to not see , edge sit's going to try to blend it in , and make it look natural in that space , so let's go back so you get to choose so , the time that Will use this is when , the content-aware fill dozen't guess , properly if I want more control this is , going to give me more control I can , choose better what's going to go into , that space but content-aware fill is so , quick and easy to use that I will , typically choose that first just to see , how well it works and if it dozen't work , well then I'll go to the patch tool but , it's just so quick to choose count the , content-aware fill and see if it works , so you can just choose it shift delete , or edit fill hit OK and it typically , does a pretty darn amazing job we can , also get rid of this little guy right , here shift delete hit return so quick , and easy to do those kind of things , let's get rid of this one last blob , right here select that shift delete hit , okay , gets rid of Ito mean that's just an , amazing job right there so good the what , is doing there so content where Phil , generally probably the best at getting , into those things but it's not always , perfect and so it'since to know that , you have a backup in the patch tool if , you need that alright so if I show or if , I hide and show this layer we can see , the before and the after so we just , removed couple of those things if , there's an area that you don't like when , you see that if you're thinking Inuit's , not exactly what I want you can go back , in and try it again so for example if I , want to select this area and let the , content aware fill work I'm going to hit , my shift delete and hit , okay and see if it does a better Job , think like that , a little bit better this time all right , so I just want to take care of those , first kind of big blobs the biggest ones , first and then we're going to comeback , in and take care of all the little stuff , in a moment but before we do that I'd , like to see a bit better contrast and , the improved color so the next thing , we're going to do is to remove the , current color and then apply my own , color instead so for that don't want , to destructively change the color of one , of these layers I want to use adjustment , layers instead so instead of using image , adjustments for which you'Dave to , select the layer and do image , adjustment sand then run these , destructively we're going to do layer , adjustment sand you could do layer , adjustment sup here through the layer , menu choose adjustment layer and do it , this way or you can also do that in the , layers menu down here at the bottom , right you can go to this little button , down at the bottom middle click on that , button and choose your adjustment layers , there as well so the main difference is , when you choose the adjustment layer , through the bottom menu that it just , creates the adjustment layer and it , dozen't ask you any questions by default , if I undo that and go in and do it , through the menu up here the difference , of doing it here through the menu is it , when I choose it through the menu it , says hey let me show you the options , first before I go ahead and create it so , it gives you the chance to name ahead , of time instead of afterwards so we want , to actually do this adjustment layer , called a gradient map so a gradient map , is going to map a gradient of colors to , the existing light to dark so let's see , what's going on wit ha gradient map this , is going to convert to black and white , so it creates my convert to black and , white layer and you can choose different , gradients to map to your existing tonal , range so what happens is they'll take , one color and map Otto your dark's and , the other color and map Otto , highlights so in this case if you're , doing the red to green the red is going , to the shadow sand the green is going to , the highlights that's kind of funky it , invert sit because we'vie gone from kind , oaf light to a dark color if we do , violet to orange the violets being put , into the shadows and the orange is being , put into the highlight sin this case , we're just using it to go from black to , white so the difference is that it's , mapping pure neutral black and a neutral , white whereas before it was not a , neutral black it was a little bit of fit , was Little bit warm kind of a brown so , that layer just converts the black and , white and there are various different , ways of converting to black and white , this Andersen't really change anything , about the image except kind of take away , the color there's other ways you could , also create an hue/saturation layer and , just pull out the saturation so there's , a variety of ways that you could do this , with different layers any of them can , work just fine now that we have ab lack , and white image I now want to apply my , own new color so layer new adjustment , layer and again there's a lot of ways , you can adjust color in this case I like , color balance because it's , straightforward to use and it's easy to , kind of visualize what you're going to , get you can get similar results with , things like curves or levels but color , balance in this case is just little , more straightforward kind of obvious of , how it works so we're going to choose , color balance oh actually forgot , before we change the calorie realize I , want to change contrast first because , now that have it as black and white , I want to bump up the contrast because , the contrast USN'ts good now why do I , want to do contrast before color well , because when you adjust contrast it can , potentially change your color when you , boost contrast you boost color , saturation when you decrease contrast , you decrease color saturation so ideally , it's a good idea to do your contrast , first and then do color correction there , are some tricks you can use to avoid , that shift but we're not going to get , into those today , so first I'm going to do a curves , adjustment to do the contrast and then , we'll do the color okay so each time I , do anew adjustment layer I'm making , sure that my current layer is selected , so that the new one gets put on top so , I'm going to choose curve sand that's , going to go on top of the convert to , black and white layer so I'm going to , say adjust contrast so within curves , let's make this bigger so we can all see , iota little bit better there you get , what's called a histogram and the , histogram is an illustration of where , tones are in your image so where you , have Peaks that means you have pixels , within that tonal range so at the bottom , we see a black point on the left and a , white point on the right so we go from , shadows to highlights as we go across , the bottom of the curve where we don't , see Peaks that means we don't have , pixels so up here in the highlights , tweak trail off close tithe highlights , but we kind of have some Peaks very very , close to the highlights and that would , be things like these kind of light , Gray's and there's a pretty big peak , which means a lot of pixels right here , in a fairly bright area not white , because that would be all the way over , on the right but fairly bright things , there's a pretty big peak and that's , because there's a lot of light areas , probably around here and that's what's , causing that peak and then we have some , other Peaks down here in kind of the , mid-range of like% gray wood right be , right in the middle and we have lot of , those tones here but we have no peaks , down here in the shadow sand that's what , we want to fix we want to pull this , black point over and change what is , black because right now potential pixels , that we could have over here are black , but we don't have any pixels there we , have pixels over here this is this is , the brightness of our current pixels and , right now that current brightness is set , to this kind of like% gray as I pull , this over we're changing the definition , and noway different set of pixels are , forced into blackness so now our tonal , range from highlight to shadow is now , spread across the pixels we actually , have instead of some of that tonal range , being wasted , pixels that don't exist in our , particular image so I'going to pull , this over and as soon as you kind of hit , some of those pixels generally that's , when you want to stop so if you think , about this is like your Beach as soon as , you hit the beach you want to stop you , don't want to beat yourself to high up , on the beach if you go too far too much , of your image is going to be forced into , black and you're going to destroy detail , because now anything from this black , point to the left is now all forced into , black and there'Son detail whatsoever , anything is to the right of the black , point is going to be lighter than black , and therefore is going to have some , detail it's going to go from between the , black tithe white so once you have a , good white and black point and I think , the white point is pretty good in this , case if I did bring it over here and , forced some things to go white it would , brighten up the image but Think that , for the most Patti kind of like the , where the highlights are for the most , part in terms of the brightest white so , I'm going to leave that alone what comes , in between though like I have Good , white and a good black but what comes in , between I think could use a little , adjustment some of the mid-tones are , maybe a little bit Turkish NOW have , some good blacks but some of the other , mid-tones that come in between the white , and the black could be changed think , want to make them lighter so if you put , a point on the mid the middle part of , the curve if you drag down you're going , to make the mid-tones darker and if you , pull up you're going to make the , mid-tones lighter so I'm going to drag , up to make them brighter now where you , put that point you can put it , technically any place between the white , and the black point but if you put it , more towards the shadows you're going to , be affecting those more now you can put , multiple points here so you could for , example you could affect the highlights , here and these shadow sand kind of deal , with those separately but what you want , to be very careful of is flat lining your , curve you never want that to be flat , straight across because you're going to , get these big gray areas that don'look , good , certainly don'twat to invert your , curve and you also want to be careful , ab outdoing too too straight up of a , curve because you'll get too much , contrast so I'm going to put my point up , her ea little bit more towards the , highlight sand I'm going to pull the ma , bit brighter and just a little bit , brighter I can see the before and after , by hiding and showing that layer and for , the most part the main change that I'vie , done here is not to brighten up the , whole photo but really to darken the , dark area sand that was my goalie kind , of liked the mid-tones for the most part , I just wanted to give more punch to the , shadows so I think that work swell OK so , now now I can do the color change that I , wanted to do so we can go back to layer , adjustment layer sand just to give you a , little tip here the layer menu up here , when you're choosing things this way it , gives you this new layer dialog gives , you these options if you prefer to use , the button down here at the bottom of , the layers pan eland you'd like to get , the options to name ahead of time you , can do that normally when you go into , this menu and you choose something like , color balance it's just going to create , it and then you could name it or choose , options later but if you want to get , that dialog while you're creating it , just hold the option key on the Mac or , alt on Windows and then when you choose , it from this menu you will also get , those options but you have to choose it , before you go into the menu when I just , did it there I held it after I opened up , the menu if I hold it first so I'm , holding option on the Mac or alt on , Windows and then I go into the menu and , I choose it then I will get this dialog , of these various options that I can , choose ahead of time but if you forget , to set it ahead of time it's okay you , can still create it and do it afterwards , I can still go in here and call this , sepia tone and make the change all right , so the reason I chose color balance is , because here you literally see the color , change right in front of you you see , going more blue or more red and when you , think of a brown Browns have it warmth , so they have a red color and they also , have some yellow warmth as well think , about the Sun sun's orange that's yellow , and red so I think that will great kind , of create a nice feeling to this so I'll , start by pushing over towards the red a , little bit but the nit does have like a , little bit of pinkish , tinge to it so we can counteract that by , going in with some yellow and you get to , choose what your balance is here so you , know do you want Togo really yellow or , do you want to go more towards the red , and the further you go with this color , shift the more pronounced the color is , going to be I want to keep this just , subtle so I'm going to stay towards the , middle here so it's subtle change , like a little bit more of the re din , here let's see the before and the after , I don't want to majorly change the color , but do wan tit to have that kind of , nice warm sepia maybe Little more , yellow maybe it seemed a bit more red , give it a little bit more color there , think that's kind of nice okay still , that nice kind of old photo feeling to , it so we're starting to get more layers , here and we want to keep ourselves , organized as we'reworking so we're , going to start to group our layers , together into logical sections so we can , hide and show them all at the same time , so I'm going to shift-click to select , all of these layers so the important , part of that was the top one was , selected or the bottom one it dozen't , matter which one but you wan tone of the , end layer is selected and then , shift-click the other end and all the , in-between layers are going to be , selected and then we can group all those , layers together by going to layer group , layers the keyboard shortcut is the same , as other Adobe apps if you're used to , Illustrator or Indiscriminate G on Mac , or ctr G on Windows G is in group so we , can still twirl open that group to see , what's inside of it or we can close it , up but the nice thing about having a , group is that we can hide it with one , eyeball and show it with one eyeball so , now we can see the converting the black , and white the contrast and sepia tone , all with one click we just double click , on that group to give it a name and I'm , going to call this color and contrast , there we goo'd also like to group all , of my retouching together even though I , like the color in contrast to be , separate so I'm going to select that , group and then shift click the remove , blob sand I'm going to group that , together because the removing of the , blobs is part of my retouching that I'm , done so again we can choose from the , menu group layers or we can simply hit , the keyboard shortcut command G or on , windows control G and I'm going to call , this photo restoration okay so now we , can hide everything that we'vie done and , show everything we'vie done all with one , click , while we're doing this just couple , tips about hiding and showing totally , like to use groups and I use groups to , manage my files they make it easy to , hide and show things but some cool tips , if you drag through the eyeballs you can , hide and show multiple layers by , dragging through the eyeballs for the , longest time I thought had to click , each and every one of these individual , eyeball sand I could not believe when , somebody finally said you know you could , just drag through that right like no I , did not know that I could just drag , through there I don'TKO why I did't , think of that , and that's actually that's a tip for all , the Adobe apps whether it's eyeballs or , locking like if you have Illustrator , In Design and there's locks you can drag , through the locks or you can drag , through the eyeball sand it's just a , great way to quickly hide and show a , bunch of layers even if they're not , groupers't matter what they are , that's a cool little tip another good , tip as well if you want to hide and show , bunch of things is is option click on , the Mac or alt click on windows so if , option-click or alt-click on a layer , it's going to hide all the other layers , if I option or alt-click again it's , going to review all the other layers so , it's basically a toggle to hide or show , just the one layer that you're clicking , on so if I alt or option click on this , it'seagoing to hide all the other layers , or show them by doing it for that layer , OK so that's Ito still like to use my , groups because it'just a little , quicker to do no keyboard shortcuts or , anything and it'singly one button , so great tips to know but but you still , want to use folders okay so next we have , more blobs to remove more improvements , to make on this photo so we could keep , working on this remove blob slayer keep , doing every touching and you know if you , feel confident of what you're doing you , could certainly do that but sometimes , you like to keep a history within your , documents and I don'mean the history , panel because the history panel only , remember is the last certain number of , things that you'vie done you can check , out how many things it's going to , remember for you I believe that's , under performance yeah so here by default , Photo shop remembers the last things , that you'vie done used to only remember , the last W but they up that eventually , you can increase that from W will take , up more RAM though so if you don't have , a whole lot of RAM then you might not , want to keep that super high especially , if you'reworking with large files the , bigger your file is the more ram they , take up and the more history states you , have the more RAM those take up so but , you could increase that if you wants you , so it remembers the last things but , it only remembers those while you have , the file open when you close it , your history goes away so for example , I'going to save this document as a , Worshipful so this is my old photo , Dan retouched'm going to save iotas a , Photo shop file so it saves all the , layers and editabilityinto the file I'm , going to save that always maximize , compatibility because that's going to , make it more compatible with other Adobe , applications or older versions of , Photo shop so it's Good thing to always , leave Ono just say don'ts how again so , I don'see this dialog ever again , because I always want to do it click OK , so let's say close that file and then , I want to reopen that back up so let me , open it back up notice my history is , gone my layers are still there all of , that stuff is good so I can go back in , and tweak any of the settings here for , my adjustment layers that's why we use , an adjustment layer it's so that we can , go back in and , make changes that's why we do adjustment , layers instead of image adjustments if , you do image adjustments through the , image adjustments menu those are , destructive they permanently change the , layer that you are editing and you can't , go back and change your mind later on , adjustment layers lets you change your , mind later on so since we're not having , a history that's saved in our file and , and also history is linear so even if , you did have it you'd have to undo all , the things you did you can't just go , back and undo one thing so we use layers , as much as possible to keep anon linear , history if you will so I'm going to , duplicate the remove blobs layer so they , can do some of my retouching on that and , we're going to do the duplicate the same , way we did it before by layer new layer , via copy command Just get used to that , command J keystroke or on Windows ctr J , you just want to jump a copy to a new , layer pretty frequently whenever you're , doing something that you maybe want to , be able to restore back to an earlier , version of the image and so I'm going to , say remove more blob snow do I , technically ha veto do this not , necessarily technically speaking but if , I do work and then Decide I don't like , Ito could always just delete or or just , temporarily hide that layer and I'd , still have all the old work that I'd , done on this remove blobs layer and so , I'm kind of building that history into , my file if I do want to go back to an , early version can so I'm going to make , sure that this layer is selected so I'm , working on that layer and actually I'm , going to call this remove dust and , scratches because we are going to remove , some of those blobs but we're going to , do some of the dust and scratches first , because there'just a lot a little , scratches and everything all over that , so there is a filter called dust and , scratches it's under noise because they , kind of consider Otto be noise over the , image and we can remove those dust and , scratches now depending on the image you , may or may not have good success with , this filter and don'think of this as , being your final thing that you're going , to do that's going to just fix your , photo completely perfectly and you don't , have to do any work you can use it to , help you out but don'truly on it on it , to do everything so what does this do , well there's a radius amount which is , basically how much dust and scratches is , going to remove and you can see the , immediate problem is if you go too high , you have no detail you're like look , great Dustin scratches you're like , but also Loki have no photo left so , you'vie gone too much so you got to be , careful it's kind of like a blur that , respects edges right it's not a like a , Gaussian blur which will blur out , everything smoothly that's kind of the , interesting thing about it is it does , try to keep some crisp edge sit's trying , to blur out the non important details so , you want to be careful and go with a , fairly low radius because you don't want , to obliterate all your detail but let's , just say I go with a radius it's a , little too high because it is it's , removing too much of my detail but let's , just say for right now that I keep that , we want to show Want to show you what , threshold does so threshold is the , question of does this actually affect , everything or just certain parts of the , image threshold is like when you go into , a door there's something called the , threshold when you cross the threshold , you were either outside or you were , inside in the case of Dustin scratches , you're either removing the dust and , scratches from a part of the image or , you're not so when does it meet the , threshold of remove dust and scratches , from this area or not so when you say , zero levels what are these things called , levels if you think about tonality you , think from white to black there's all , these steps or levels from white through , all the shades of gray ultimately to , Blackwell by default there are , levels of difference from white to black , so when you say zero levels anything , that has any level of difference it says , that's Austin scratch let's remove it , so there's Avery low threshold for what , is Austin scratch basically thinks , everything is a Dustin scratch and it , tries to remove everything if you up the , threshold now things need at least W , levels of different , so from one pixel to another you'vie kind , of upped the threshold so now some , things are not going to meet that , threshold and that means it won't apply , dust and scratches to everything some , things won't get the dust and scratch , removal which means you're going to keep , some details the higher the threshold , the more you need to meet that threshold , for it to work that means fewer and , fewer things are going to get dust and , scratches so here everything gets it and , as you go up fewer and fewer things are , getting that it's still doing the amount , to your image still the amount of blur , that you're doing but how much of your , image do you see it in so you want to be , really careful ab outdoing a super low , threshold because that'just going to , obliterate tons of detail you want to , pop this up a little bit so that you're , keeping some of the finer details again , with radius you don't want to go to much , because it is going to obliterate a lot , of details so you want to keep a fairly , low radius generally and you want to , have the threshold definitely higher , than zero you want to bump that up and , so you just have to play around with , this Little bit depending on your , particular image I'm you zoom in so you , guys can see this bit better so now if , I'm hiding and showing the result with , the preview checkbox here the goal of , this is that I want to see that for the , most part I'm keeping a lot of the finer , details but I'm losing a lot of dust and , scratches that's the goal here , so if you're losing too many of the fine , details you want to adjust things maybe , you want to boost up the threshold so , less stuff is being affected or if , there's too much blur you might need to , bump the radius down so it's not doing , as much of a blur also keep in mind that , right now I don'thieve any selections so , it's doing this to the entire image you , might have some parts which can , withstand a lot of dust and scratches , like the background is already very , artificially blurred and soft so there's , really no detail that I need to keep , there I can apply much heavier handed , dust and scratches to the backgrounds , then I can the face which has more , detail so right now I'm doing an overall , dust and scratches but that dozen'mean , that ha veto always do it to the whole , image I can make a selection before I do , this , so let's keep this kind of low I'm just , doing this as a light initial Passover , the image just to remove the first wave , and I'm going to click okay now the next , time maybe I can go in with something a , little bit heavier handed so I'm going , to start by selecting all but then , selecting certain parts that think , have detail that I want to keep so using , my lasso and I want to have a soft edge , here so I'going to go up to my feather , amount in my lasso tool so it's actually , going to change the lasso that each time , I make a lasso it's going to have a soft , feathered edge so I'll set something , like W pixels gives me kind of a nice , little bit of softness here I'm going to , hold option as I drag around the eye , this would be alt if you're on Windows , so you hold option or alt to subtract , from your selection and what I'm , thinking about is deselecting areas that , have sharp detail that I want to keep so , anything that's kind of important like , maybe like the mouth this this guy's , face over down here you know I want to , keep the details that are there the the , background here of the chair you know , that's kind of got some interesting , sharp details that I don't want to lose , sou'm deselecting those so basically , everything is selected except that , particular those particular areas that , I'm deselecting can deselect the , buttons maybe don't want to remove the , button detail because like the buttons , that are here so I'm still doing most of , the image I'm just thinking about hey , what don't I want to do I don'twat to , do this stuff so that's why I'm removing , it from the selection okay so I'vie got , most of the image selected except for , those few little parts and then it can , go back into dust and scratches and , maybe do Little bit more zoom in so we , can take a closer look now notice as I , do this I'm going to crank up the , settings kind of a lot here just so we , can really see , that it's going to have kind of a big , change but notice it dozen'Tod Otto , some areas those areas that ID selected , right so that'SA good thing so it'snot , affecting the eyes is not affecting the , mouth it's affecting the other parts so , maybe we can do a little bit more in , this case but you still don't want to do , a ton because you don't want to lose the , detail of the too much detail of the , original bu tit is helping to some , extent it's getting rid of some of the , stuff gets rid of some of those white , parts they're helping me out a little , bit for anything else beyond that really , you're going to want to go in and do , selective areas of just a couple areas , so let's say for example the backgrounds , I could take a whole area like this , notice my feather is still pixels so , I have a nice soft edge so it dozen't , create a crisp edge selection and then I , can go back in and I can do a dust and , scratches Justin that area and in this , Case can afford to do more application , now Id on't want to have a really low , threshold because that is going to , obliterate texture so I still do want to , have the threshold up but I can getaway , with a bigger radius to fill in those , white spaces so you just want to play , around don't have it too low or else it , loses too much texture and hopefully , this is coming through in the screen cast , in terms of the quality there hopefully , you can see that that kind of , obliterates the texture if you keep it , up if you give it too high now you're , not applying Dustin scratches to those , areas so you have to find just the right , amount for your particular image what's , the right threshold that fills in those , gaps for you without eliminating your , texture you can do that on an area by , area basis , so I can select an area and apply more , or less depending on that area now when , you go up to the top of the filter menu , notice that Dustin scratches is there if , you want to reapply the last amount you , just did you can just choose that and it , will just reapply the same amount that , you just did but you might not like the , exact same amount so let me undo that so , a neat little trick is instead of having , to go all the way back into noise , Dustin scratches every single time and , of course that'seagoing to give you the , ability to customize the settings since , we just saw that right up there be kind , of cool if we could make that pop open , the filter but with the settings so once , again that option or Alt key is going to , come in hand yon the mac is , appropriately called option because it , shows option son windows it's called alt , because you see the alternate settings , so I can hold option or alt when , choosing that and then I get to see the , options and then I can tweak it and get , just the right amount for this , particular area of the image keep in , mind that if there's any big areas like , this that you may want to use the , content or fill to fill in those areas , so going into edit fill or hitting shift , delete or on windows that was shift , backspace and filling that in might help , now be careful I had the pixel , feather on and you got to be careful , with the feather because the feather , softens the edge and actually kind of , feathered into the object and I did't , entirely select the object so do keep in , mind that if you ever apply that feather , to your tool you ha veto go back and get , rid of that so I'm going to go back and , get rid of that and try that again shift , delete fill that in that's nice so you , can go in and grab areas shift delete , and just get rid of those now an area , like this where it's coming into here , you might think that's kind of tricky , because you got to extend that line , across I think this is a place where , that content or fill is going to really , work nicely , shift delete to bring up the fill dialog , and just click okay that's pretty darn , pretty darn good now it did give a , little bit of a hump there sometimes you , can give it a second shot shift delete , again same thing again maybe you can hit , it one more time just see if it gets it , good and Think that's pretty goo din , this case but let's just say it did't , work it does often work but let'just , say it did't what's another option well , remember that patch tool so once you , have your selection the other , alternative is to use your patch tool , you can go to your patch tool set Otto , content-aware but instead of the content , aware fill which is it entirely judging , what it thinks you should be there , you're giving it some help in this case , you're going to drag this to some other , area and you're going to tell it hey , this stuff should be put there or this , stuff should be put there and you can , line it up and get it set and when you , think it looks good let gonad it's , going to go comeback in and put what , you though tit should be in there and , it'still going to blend it in but you , have a little bit more say-so if the , total content-aware dozen't do what you , needed to do in terms of the content , where Phil give this a shot and try it , out it could be a nice alternative but , like said content aware fill is just , so quickie do typically choose that , first shift delete and because you do it , so quickly by doing that shift delete , that's where that keystroke really comes , in handy just hitting shift delete so , quickly now there's a lot of little , streaks along here that we want to start , to minimize and some of those can be , helped by the content aware fill to some , extent but it's kind of hard to select a , long streak and and the Dustin scratches , did't entirely get rid of that so we , have the content aware fill but we can , also use content aware in other cases , like for example the patch tool is , content aware but also the Spot Healing , Brush is also content aware as well the , Spot Healing Brush is nice , for just hitting little spots very , quickly instead of having to lasso a , spot and then having to bring up the , fill dialog we could just click on it , with the Spot Healing Brush so if , there's Little spot that you want to , get rid of just drag over it and it will , be healed just drag over it and it will , be healed , it's pretty amazing dragged over let go , drag over let go we see it go dark , because it wants you to know whether , you'vie highlighted something or not and , as soon as you let go it looks around , the surrounding area sand says let me , suck in some good stuff and mix it up so , that it looks nice in these areas so , Spot Healing Brush you do want to set , the size appropriately tithe area that , you're covering you don't want to cover , over too much of the area and remove , original pixels so you can adjust your , brush size there and the trick is you do , want to cover over the entire area that , you want to remove ideally all in one , kind of shot so that you can look around , and pull in good stuff if you kind of , Whittle away like a little bit here and , a little bit there it sometimes pulls , some of the stuff you don't want back , into that area by the time you have , highlighted this whole area when , Photo shop looks around it should see , only good stuff all the way around and , know that everything inside this area , that you'vie highlighted is all bad and , it knows to entirely remove it with , surrounding stuff so it'better to do , it in one shot then whittle away piece , by piece by piece so here again you can , just drag over an area and when you let , go it'll pull the surroundings in and , heal it for you and can often work , really really well and in this case is , probably faster to brush that than it is , to select it with a lasso especially , when you'redoing kind of straight lines , like this especially when it comes to , these these little lines that are really , straight let me show you a cool trick , with the Spot Healing'm going to , create new document to show you this , actually I'm just going to create Ian , half by W that'll be good good size , okay so whenever you have a brush tool , and let me just make my brush bigger , here so you click with the brush you , click with a brush so click click just , makes dots , however if you click and you shift-click , shift-click will connect those dots so , instead of click click hold shift shift , click shift click shift click that works , with any of the brushing tools including , the Spot Healing so if you want to , remove a straight line you can size your , brush tithe size of the stuff and you , can do that up he reusing the size or , you can use your square bracket keys on , your keyboard left square bracket right , square bracket if you get your left , square bracket it gets a little smaller , the right square bracket key makes it a , little bit bigger I'm gonna make this a , little bit smaller and I'm going to , click the one end and then shift-click , at the other end and it makes a straight , line to heal that so you can click it , one end , shift-click of the other makes a , straight line in between and heals that , so here's a nice strong straight line , click shift click click shift click so , that could be a way to do straight lines , without having to drag through the , entire line now also don'forget that , you know you have your Dustin scratches , so in certain areas you want to make , sure you maybe hit it with the maximum , Dustin scratches you can get away with , so you do the Dustin scratches first , nope did't feather that so let me , just go in and feather that real quick , I'll Putin a feather of like pixels , then I'll go back in and do my Dustin , scratches I'll see how much Icahn get , away with in this case maybe Little , bit less keep a little bit more texture , there there we go so it's really using a , combination of these to improve your , image now let'just see how far we'vie , been getting here I'm going to hide and , show and so we're getting there you know , the background is looking pretty nice I , could still run some more dust and , scratches in some of these areas the , jacket though this is still needing some , work so ho ware we going to do that , so I would certainly go through and , maybe do some more dust and scratches in , some of these areas like some of these , kind of mid areas that don'really have , a lot of detail feather out my selection , there and then do my dust and scratches , for that try to get that as good as I , can I would use things like my Spot , Healing Brush to get rid of the stuff , that I don'twat see how much I can , finish up that way but even even after , doing all that there's still going to be , a lack of detail that's just not quite , there to make this maybe as punchy as , you'dike Otto be because there's just , some softness to this image and so the , one of the things that's nice to do on a , black-and-white image or this can also , work on a color image too but especially , like black and whites or sepia tones you , can do this very easily on is to go in , there with just light and darkness and , define an edge and the way that you , adjust your brightness by painting is , using your dodge and burn tools so , dodging and burning is a traditional , darkroom technique of lightening and , darkening burning is making things , darker and dodging is making things , lighter if you never did this in a , darkroom don't worry , you don't have to understand how it , worked in a darkroom just know that , dodging is going to lighten and burning , is going to make things darker an easy , way to remember if you can remember , dodge and burn go together which one , makes things dark well when you burn , toast what do you get dark toast so when , you burn something yeah make it black or , dark so I'm going to start by darkening , some stuff using the burn tool now you , want to go in with Avery small brush so , I'm going to hit my left square bracket , make this really nice and small because , I want to fine brush to work with , and now the default exposure I's% that , might be a little too much it might go , black really fast and yep whoa look at , how dark that goes way too much they , want these tools to be set Tao high , amount initially so it's obvious what , they're doing but a lot of times to make , them usable you have to lower the , exposure down a lot I'd rather go over , it multiple times to build up to the , right amount then going over at once and , realizing it's too much and having to go , down and oh that's still too much let me , undo you and let me go down so I use , often small little amounts and then you , can go in there and even that I think is , too much you know sometimes I get into , like the two and three percent here just , to slowly build this up and you can , actually use this to get rid of some of , the light areas but you can use it to , define the edges more and it's going to , be a combination of the darkness as well , as the lightness as well so if you go , through and you drag a sharp line you , want to do some shading here so I think , of this is like you're an illustrator , and you're shading here so you'vie got to , get the nice fall-off you know the nice , kind of blending so you want to create , now if you want to create a sharp , straight line remember click shift click , shift click shift click shift click and , it might be subtle but you're slowly , making change if you don't see it , enough of course you can go with a , slightly higher exposure maybe go to , like% so I can see that's just , little bit more and the more that I , let's go back down to the more that I , make the sharp edge with the black and , then go back in with Dodge tool to , lighten up the other side let's go like , 4% on that again with a small brush if , you start to lighten one side and darken , the other side you're going to create , the appearance of sharpness look at the , difference here as I hide and show that , we're starting to get better clarity , I'm literally creating detail so you , want to go into the shadows , and sharpen up the shadows'm just , shift clicking back and forth here and , then you want to do some shading here to , kind of feather it out then I go back in , with the Dodge tool so on one side you , want some darkness on the other side you , want some highlights like here I don't , really have much of a defined edge but I , can start to define the edge by , lightening that up and so kind of think , of yourself as an illustrator your photo , illustrator creating detail where detail , may not have existed so you know going , back here you know you can entirely , create a line that may not have existed , before and you need to define it now , this is where having a Wac om tablet can , a pressure-sensitive tablet can , definitely help because the fluid nature , of your hand it's easier to paint using , a tablet let me turn on a little camera , here so using a pressure-sensitive , tablet like a Wac om tablet you'vie goat , pen that you can use and using that pen , just the motion of your your your hand , painting on your screen it's going to be , a more natural movement than using a , mouse the other really important thing , that's different about using a tablet , than a mouse is that there's apportion , on your tablet how much you guys can see , this here notice there's a rectangle , here that rectangle actually represents , your screen and when you go to one , corner of that that's going to one , corner of your screen and when you go to , the other corner it's going to the other , corner of your screen when you go to the , bottom it's going to the bottom of your , screen when you go to the top it'seagoing , to the top of the screen and that means , that as you actually start to paint , digitally paint like going over the same , spot you are literally going to go over , the same spot in your image so that , means you can Passover it very quickly , and keep painting the same area so here , if I go back in with my brush using my , tablet I can very quickly paint over , this and I don'TKO if you can see the , speed of my brush going back and forth , but I'm going back very fast and really , like I feel like I'm painting in a way , that I could never do with my mouse that , speed I can never achieve that speed , using a mouse'm good with the mouse , but'm not that good at going in there , at that speed the main difference is , when you use a mouse the mouse every , time you push it it's going relative to , where you came from , you can't just place it on a spot and , keep going back over that same spot , without it kind of slowly shifting so , you keep having to counteract for that , shift because the tablet has an exact , relationship to your screen that the , same place on the tablet is the same , place on your screen that makes a huge , difference because there's an exact spot , you can keep going back over and back , over and so you can do it really fast , because you know you're hitting the same , spot you don't have to like make sure , that as you're going that you're still , like hitting the same exact spot you can , also get Wac om tablets that are actually , screens that you can actually paint , directly on the screen which is amazing , but you don't have to spend super big , amounts of money to get a tablet you get , even the cheapest tablets let's say we , go here onto Amazon , and we check out some tablets Shintos , line which is the one that I have is , more expensive those runaround W , hours but you can get cheaper ones so , like here for example , it's got pen and touch you can actually , do some touch on this one as well but , the pen is the thing that you mainly , want you know for a tea four bucks so , you can get them in variety of prices , but they can be as cheap as eighty four , dollars so they don't have to be super , expensive here's one with a pen$W so , you can certainly get affordable ones , where you can get this ability so you , can be faster working and you don't have , to spend at on of money to get that , ability so let me open up my original , finished version so you can see the done , and I just want to show you that if you , spend sometime going in there and I , could have done even more detail but , again I wanted it to kind of feel still , like an old leathery kind of feeling , with with some more detail though just , went in there and give it more detail , and if you compare now you look in this , area here versus this that there were , whole areas here where Just had to go , in and completely just make up the , detail because there was just there was , just no detail there you know I figured , hey there Beau based on the look of this , I figured there'd be a button there you , know sou accentuated that button , because I noticed that it kind of it , kind of went around so so I figured that , that'probably button there and you , know that it kinda came up and then went , back down so figure that'probably , button there and so there was the kind , of the hint of those lines but but you I , had to make it up so I had to go in , there and I did a little bit of , lightness and a little bit of darkness , and you end up creating detail because , photographs are just light and shade , what creates detail is something light , next to something dark that's how you , notice it detail exists , so I would say it took me total when I , first did this image probably about an , hour to decide everything of how I , want edit to look and to finish , everything , probably bout an hour total to do all , the work without explaining it to , somebody so Ottawas't a tremendous time , investment but it was about an hour's , worth of work I would say to do the , final stuff using all the techniques , that have shown now the final thing , because you probably notice it overall , there is also a little bit more , sharpness to this image than the nine , I have lost a little bit of sharpness , the final thing would be to end up doing , Little bit of sharpness at the very , end so when you'redoing that you want , to apply your sharpness to the entire , final image now the thing about , sharpness is it'soften specific to , output are you going to put this on the , we bare you going to put it Onion print , if you're going to do print you often , can get away with mo resharpening , because the printing process is going to , lose some sharpness so you kind of over , sharpen something so I typically don't , like to apply sharpening destructively , to any particular layer now since I have , all these different layers here how do I , apply sharpening you could put the mall , together into smart object and apply , your sharpening that way , so it'd be non-destructive but that , increases your file size a lot as an , alternative like to do it this way , I like to just select everything and , copy a merged version of it so that's , going to basically flatten it and copy , it so that when I pastie'm just going , to go here tithe top layer here and I'm , going to paste it's going to paste a , merged version of everything that Have , done so that's a layer now that I can , apply my sharpening to and I could call , this sharpening for prints for example , if I'm going to do sharpening for prints , and then I can go up and do my , sharpening using smart sharpen , here you want to pay attention to your , big version in the background decide , your amount your radius and your removal , type now this is what I'going to start , with first you want to be set to lens , blur it used to when it first came out , be set to Gaussian blur but then they , eventually switch to the lens blur which , is going to give you a better result , and the main thing is that the way that , this sharpening filter works or the way , that any sharpening filter works is it , finds an edge and cranks up the contrast , add an edge to create the appearance of , sharpness so the amount is the amount of , contrast how much contrast is it adding , the more contrast you add the more sharp , it looks the radius is how faraway from , an edge is it going to make that , contrast noticeable lo radius keeps it , really tight to the edge high radius , moves it very Farsi you start to see , halos like here you literally see ugly , halos because you're going so faraway , ten pixels away from the edge and it , looks undesirable even if you have a low , amount it's still typically is going to , be kind of undesirable because you're , seeing big radius a big halo around , the edges , so generally radius should be as low as , you can get away with reduce noise if , you have a digital photo can be very , useful but even with an old photo like , this with lots of little details that , maybe you don't want a little bit of , noise reduction might be able to remove , some unwanted texture just be careful , that if you go too high with reduce , noise that you're going to lose detail , that you want to keep so I'm going to , keep this pretty low the main thing here , that we're setting is the amount of , contrast and the radius so getting back , to the remove lens blur if you do remove , lens blur the way that it creates the , halos for lens blur is better than , Gaussian blur what I'vie found is that , Gaussian blur the halos are going to be , more noticeable than with lens blur if , you do lens blur look at how much , smaller oh oh sorry thank you for , reminding me to turn off my camera sorry , about that , I thought'd turn that one off thank , you okay so going back here to the , amount the radius and the reduced noise , so the lens blur makes smaller halos , then Gaussian blur look at how big they , are with Gaussian blur and then look at , how small they are with lens blur now , normally you're not doing this amount , you're going to be much less but still , at the same amount you notice the big , halos with Gaussian blur and you don't , want to see them with lens blur so keep , your radius low use lens blur and then , play with your amount to decide how much , sharpening you want and you can use the , preview to turn this on an doff to see , how much of change you're making now , in my Case should have spent more time , removing some of these scratches and , stuff that don'twat so I'going to , be sharpening some things that I don't , really want to sharpen in this case but , you'll start to get a sharper result , when you apply the sharpening so if I , hide the sharpening and I show it I , don't know if the screen cast video , quality is going to be good enough , hopefully you guys can see that there is , a quality change don't expect amazing , things out of the sharpening filters , you're going to see a little bit of , improvement mainly when you're really , trying to create clarity it'sour , original is going to determine how sharp , something is and in this particular case , going me going back in and painting in , detail is really how I got a lot of the , clarity that I wanted to have in my , image , all right so questions does anybody have , any questions here while I'm waiting for , people to ask questions into the into , the chat just want to mention that , once again that you have an exercise , waiting for you to download at the on , the goodies Page'm going to paste this , one more time into the chat if you go to , the goodies page scroll down we got the , instructions class files you could , download those the images in the class , files you can download the instructions , print it out for yourself or keep it on , screen and go through all the , instructions of what I'redone today is , all written down for you step by step , it's all 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