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Using masking to retouch portraits

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Using masking to retouch portraits

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Camera Raw makes it easy to select a person or multiple people and make edits locally to individual elements such as the hair or the eyes. In a previous video, we applied the Adobe Adaptive Beta profile to this image. For now, I'm going to switch that back to the Portrait profile so that we can take a look at the masking tools. When Camera Raw identifies a person or multiple people in an image, you'll see an icon for where those people appear in the masking panel. I'll go ahead and click on that and I could make a mask for the entire person or we can toggle that off and then we can check all of the individual attributes that we want to create masks for. I wanna create nine separate masks, so I'll select that and choose Create. Then let's go ahead and zoom in and I'll use the space bar to navigate towards the face. I'll start on the first mask, which was the facial skin. I've right clicked next to the header of one of the panels and I put this into single panel mode so that when I…

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