Photoshop Image Retouching


This was easily my least favorite assignment we've had yet. I went back and watched so many different videos on Lynda and still couldn't figure out how to make the really bright smudge on the hood go away, and after 4+ hours of working with it I finally just smudged it enough to pretend it looks like a natural bright spot and just turned it in.

I wasn't big on the clone stamp tool, it was way too sensitive. For a majority of the little blemishes on the wall, ground, car, etc., I used the spot healing brush and that worked pretty well but was very tedious and time consuming. In hindsight, I should've used the patch tool for those blemishes.

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