Adobe Photoshop: Beginner's Guide for Photographers
Course 4: Retouching Portraits: Make the Subject Stand Out From Its Background
By Mikael Eliasson
About the video: Make the Subject Stand Out From Its Background
Overview
“Through selections and masks in combination with adjustment layers, you will learn how to make your subject stand out and “pop” in your images.”
In this video lesson Mikael Eliasson addresses the topic: Make the Subject Stand Out From Its Background, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Retouching Portraits. Learn how to retouch and get the most out of your portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“PHOTOSHOP FOR PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE 4 LESSON 7 Make the Subject Stand Out from Its Background In this lesson, I’ll show you how to make your subject stand out from your background. It’s very important in your edit, to make the subject pop out of the background to draw the attention to the subject through a combination of selections, adjustment layers, and layer masks. We’re going to do that. Let me show you. There are a few different ways we ca make our subject stand out in our pictures. A simple way is to brighten the subject or darken the background or a combination of both. We can also work...”
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Course summary for: Course 4: Retouching Portraits

Mikael Eliasson
By Mikael Eliasson
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