Learn advanced skin retouching techniques in Photoshop while recreating Marvel's Eternals movie poster in this comprehensive 44-minute tutorial. Master essential skills including frequency separation, gaussian blur brushes, quick selection, healing brush tool, pen tool for precise curved selections, and iris blur effect. Explore adding highlights, dust, and ember effects, color grading with curve adjustment layers, and creating professional movie poster titling. Dive into advanced techniques like layer styles for lettering, working with flares, and adding film grain using pattern overlays. Perfect for intermediate to advanced Photoshop users looking to enhance their retouching and poster design skills.
How to Retouch Skin in Photoshop - Eternals Movie Poster Creation
Nucly • Photoshop and Creative Design Training via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
Review of the reference poster
Getting started on the poster
Setting up the guides
Frequency Separation
Creating a gaussian blur brush mix brush
Using quick selection
The healing brush tool
The pen tool, my favorite tool for making nice, curved selections
The iris blur effect
Adding a very strong white highlight
Adding the dust and the embers
Bringing in the green color
Color grading with the curve adjustment layer
Adding the movie poster titling
Using layer styles for the lettering
Working with flares in Photoshop
Film credits—a little cheat
A final touch—making her eye sharper
Using a pattern overlay to add film grain
Summary and ending
Taught by
Nucly • Photoshop and Creative Design Training
