In this excerpt from Tim Grey's Image Cleanup Workshop, Tim teaches you core image cleanup techniques you can use in a variety of situations, such as brightening and whitening elements of your images, red eye removal, and fixing chromatic aberration and noise. Be sure to test-drive the many features of the video2brain interface, including custom bookmarks, immersive Full-Screen mode, Watch-and-Work mode, and more. Visit the video2brain site to learn about the full course. And use code SAMPLEIMAGE for 15% off this workshop.
Cleanup Techniques
In this lesson you'll learn a basic approach you can take when cleaning up a variety of blemishes in a photo.
When the color in an area of an image is contaminated, but the texture is not affected, you can use the powerful technique presented in this lesson to apply an easy fix.
One of the key concepts to keep in mind when cleaning up an image is that you can mix and match the use of multiple tools to achieve your goals. This lesson will provide you with a demonstrate of that approach.
In some cases you really just want to tone down a blemish, rather than removing it entirely. This lesson will show you an approach to toning down such blemishes.
In this lesson you'll discover a powerful technique for cleaning up red eye in an image, and the same process will work with similar effects with different colors often seen with animals.
Chromatic aberrations are color halos along high-contrast edges caused by issues with the lens. In this lesson you'll see just how easy it can be to resolve such problems in your photos.
When you need to increase the ISO setting on your camera in order to achieve a faster shutter speed, the result can be noise in the image. In this lesson you'll learn how to use the Reduce Noise filter to improve the appearance of the photo.