Sunlit Window Hair Products | Post-Production

In this post-production demonstration, Karl walks you through the image editing and retouching work that follows on from Sunlit Window Hair Product Shoot.

He starts with multiple different shots from the original shoot. The bulk of his work is devoted to compositing these eight layers to create one perfect final image, with beautiful gradients on the metallic lids and a warm glow radiating through the two golden liquids.

You’ll see Karl demonstrate a wide range of different Photoshop tools and techniques, including layer masks, curves adjustments, the Pen Tool, the Clone Stamp Tool, the Lasso Tool, the Paint Tool, the Healing Brush, and more.

You’ll also see Karl experimenting with different Blending modes, adding noise and Gaussian blur, adjusting hue saturation, and altering the contrast in key areas with burning and dodging.

As the session concludes, Karl moves the image out of Photoshop and into Camera Raw to make final adjustments to colour and luminance.

In this class:

  • Photoshop tools and techniques for product images
  • Compositing multiple images
  • Layer masks
  • Curves and hue-saturation adjustments
  • Adding noise and blur in Photoshop
  • Using the Clone Stamp Tool and Healing Brush

If you enjoy this class, be sure to check out Dior Fahrenheit Photoshoot | Post-Production and explore our Product Post-Production section.

Questions? Please post them in the comments section below.

© Karl Taylor

Comments

  1. Hi Karl, the trick with the copy stamp 37:41 does not work for me:( I have tried it by holding down the shift key. I am using the latest version of Photoshop.
    What am I doing wrong? cheers

    1. Hi, so I’m working on a retouch yesterday and today and I’ve done multiple copy stamps (thats where I copy all of the visible layers on to one new layer) to do this the keys I’m pressing on a mac are Command, Alt, Shift, E – pressing all of the keys at the same time. Make sure you don’t have caps lock on and the keyboard shortcut might be different for a PC, if you’re working on a PC you may have to google it or look on Adobe’s keyboard shortcut lists. Let us know how you get on.

      1. Thanks Karl
        My problem was to stamp a straight line.
        To do this, I thought you would select a point and then stamp a straight line with the Shift key pressed. Similar to a normal brush (from point a to point b, straight)
        Hope you understand what I mean.
        But I think I have found a workaround.
        Thank you very much

        1. Hi, for that you hold the shift down while you make the first click with your mouse and then you keep the shift pressed down and then click in your new position with the mouse and this will form a straight line clone.

  3. Alexis

    Hi Karl, I’m using the dust cover tool in the filter panel for the dust issues on the product, and it does a pretty good job!
    I advise to test it if you hasn’t use it before 🙂

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