Product Retouching in Photoshop CC

Open and organize images in Bridge, keeping sessions in separate folders, then start raw conversion in Camera Raw or Lightroom, noting metadata and lens information.

Explore how red, green, and blue light shapes an image and adjust exposure, shadows, highlights, and contrast to prepare photos for retouching in Photoshop.

Learn to fix lens distortions, vignetting, and chromatic aberration in product retouching by applying profile corrections, adjusting distortion and vignette, and using fringe hue controls.

Master color adjustments in Photoshop CC by balancing saturation and vibrance, shaping hue and luminance, and using color mixer and calibration panel to preserve natural colors.

Import files in Lightroom and Camera Raw, and compare how camera settings transfer to Lightroom for still life images, basic, calibration, and optics panels, with white balance and vibrance adjustments.

Export selected images from Lightroom to a subfolder as tiff files at 300 ppi, keeping the same filenames, then open them in Photoshop for further retouching.

Extend the product background in Photoshop with the crop tool and content-aware fill, keep the same ratio, then refine with a new layer and clone stamp to blend shadows.

Remove dust, scratches, and reflections from product surfaces using selection and brush work. Keep edges intact while painting on a clean layer, using clone stamp or eraser when needed.

Extract three products from the background with the pen tool to create clean selections, focusing on bottom edges that meet the panel, preparing images for demanding retouching by removing reflections.

Create natural looking product reflections in Photoshop by precise selections, feathered edges, masks, motion blur, color tweaks, and smart object workflows to blend blue reflections.

Learn to create natural looking reflections in Photoshop CC using existing image data: clean up, create precise curves, duplicate and blur reflections, and mask for edge accuracy.