RP LIVE - Chris Tarantino 08/01/09 Feedback

[Doug Nelson]

Tell us what you thought of the event, and give us your suggestions and requests for future events with Chris.

[omytfineo1]

my first LIVE event here and I was impressed! Chris is a humble retouch artist who is not afraid to show us how it is really done. I'd like to thank him for that & thanks to Doug for organizing the event. Looking forward to more!

[JMB]

This event just changed my way of retouching! I missed some color correction, but it was a fantastic webinar!

Thank you both!

JM

[OCSteveC]

This event was fantastic! Many thanks to RetouchPRO and Chris Tarantino for making this happen. I learned a ton of useful techniques that I plan to start using in my work.

One question that I meant to ask Chris, is what size Wacom tablet does he recommend? I was thinking about getting the large, but I don't know if the medium would suffice since it takes less desk space?

Thanks again!

Cheers,
Steve

[jsm2]

Thank you Chris!! Very, very valuable stuff, nicely presented!! Pleasure to watch, indeed! Thanks go also to Doug for the idea of these LIVE events, and organizing them!
I know, from Chris's posts here on the forum, he's got great knowledge in building masks techniques, maybe that could be one of the future subjects
Thank you!

[skydog]

Unfortunately I missed this one but there will be a rebroadcast right?

[Harperr]

My first RP Live and this is my first post. Doug and Chris I enjoyed the presentation, a positive experience, thanks. Learned new PS approaches to problem solving; as in using curves as a forensic visibility aid. Sweet!

[hagenlinss]

Terrific...Thanks!!!

[Lasse]

This where a Great one.
I would love to see chris do an event on creating masks in varius ways. Im sure he could make our heads spin. Oh and Doug, lets make a rule; when chris talks about anything just let him go on, he could end up revelaing a secret or two
on another sidenote these events have a way of messing with my sleep, as its 05:45 now after the event and Im still not sleeping

[JasonRS]

Apart from losing the audio a couple of times, the session was a good one with 2 new techniques o try out. My only real issue with the event is the random injected questions.

This comes up with every webinar, please put some structure around when questions are asked. The random interjection of questions are distracting and throw the session off tack at times. It's much easier to listen to one presenter.

Arrange with the presenter break points for questions (after each group or layer), we could well get the answer given anyway before that technique is finished being demonstrated. I'm pretty sure Chris said "I'm going to show you that" a couple of times.

3 times for colour selection in the skin tones?(and you said you were dropping the Photoshop 101 questions!)

Why not allow people to submit questions in advance on registration, that allows you to filter a lot of the questions not generated by the technique being shown. It's easy, and means you can have a pool of questions that the presenter can see before the event, and either address them during the session, save them for the end, or ignore them if they're not relevant to that session (like the blur for smoothing question that keeps coming up in every webinar, and always seems to get a no as an answer)

[Cybersong]

Always a joy to watch these great webinars :-)

[markc78]

Top notch again, I'd be interested in a future one with a strong focus on Chris' masking techniques .... Thanks Doug & Chris

[fasttrax]

Very nice webinar. I learned quite a bit. One point I'd like reviewed... When choosing light and dark colors for brushing on your soft light Cleanups layer (with 50% gray to start), what was recommended for adjustments in HSB for the light and dark sampled colors? I think you said lower brightness (B) for the dark color and lower saturation (S) for the lighter color. Is that correct?

[gary@garylittle]

This was a first class webinar. Chris does, as many others do, assume we know too much. He eventually slowed down a bit. Also, the lag of the webinar software is distracting.
Could he please give us the action steps for the "retouch" layer, etc.
Gary

[cricket1961]

Fasttrax, you are correct with the brightness and saturation.
Gary- Sorry about the speed issue. I tend to go a little quick as I often have to much info to go over in that short amount of time.As it was I had to rush over the final two or three layers to squeeze them in. I will post the steps on my blog for the action today.

Chris

[seattle-light]

This was an interesting webinar. Chris Tarantino did a fabulous job of covering a lot of territory in a short amount of time. Some of what he did was basic (but a big part of retouching is just mastering the basics), but some was absolutely inspired. The webinar was worth it just for seeing Chris's diagnostic use of solarizing curves. Thanks you Chris Tarantino for sharing your experience and incredible insight. And of course thanks to Doug Nelson for putting this all together.

[girlsfather]

I had a great time watching the webinar - even though I am a bit tired today ;-)
(Webinar finished around 3:00 am european time.)

Some little hints mean a lot to get your workflow more efficcient.
So I liked the use of your special "help-visualising-curves".

What I wanted to know is what would your tools be to make the bandwith of the skintone hues more narrow without loosing too much natural feeling.
In the picture you showed I had the feeling that the hues in the face were a bit cooler than in the shoulder and arms. Almost always in skin hue and saturation in different areas are not the same.
(I know that that image had to look natural and so that was not covered here)

Maybe this could be covered in a future event.

[mmitch1]

Was not able to attend -- hope there will be a rebroadcast ...

[Nanls]

Interested in the rebroadcast as well.

[SandiG]

Just got back from vacation. Here's my vote for a rebroadcast.

[Doug Nelson]

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/ret...broadcast.html

[PixelPurfect]

Originally Posted by cricket1961

Fasttrax, you are correct with the brightness and saturation.
Gary- Sorry about the speed issue. I tend to go a little quick as I often have to much info to go over in that short amount of time.As it was I had to rush over the final two or three layers to squeeze them in. I will post the steps on my blog for the action today.

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for sharing some of your wealth of retouching knowledge, I really enjoyed the webinar. Can you link us to your blog? I can't seem to find the step by step or the actions.

David

[mmitch1]

Will there be a another rebroadcast ... I will out of town on Wednesday, Aug. 5

[Kayzar]

could you also go over what you did for the eyes?

[derienzo777]

Thank you very much. The rebroadcast with Chris was quite enjoyable and educating. I've been studying and practicing for a while, but, am leaving this session with a couple takeaways that will definitely affect my workflow and tweak my current process.

Would love to see more with Chris in the future, including his masking techniques (that hand mask he did - wondering his process on that). Appreciate you offering these webinars.

Also -- really appreciate leaving the Photoshop 101 out of this, and using the experts to teach what only they can offer. Plenty of other avenues to learn basics.

[dingothefox]

I would love to have a session more about channels. My friend who worked in magazines in the 90's said the best retouching was hands-off, working only in the channels. Maybe this is no longer the case with the advancement of photoshop's tools, but even so I suspect there is much more possible that is not so intuitive at first, using channels. So an event without spending time on those basic tools would be great!!
But thank you, I did learn some good things!

[photogryl]

Chris and Doug, thank you for your fine efforts at cyber-juggling, toggling, masking and all the other "ings" so skillfully demonstrated on the retouch webinar.
Back in the day, my first college Photoshop projects were virtual mummies, so poor were my skills. Yesterday was an eye-opener (can't resist the pun) for me!
The only thing I would add is in the area of dental tweaks, from what I know of healthy gum tissue, it is pale pink, so perhaps in addition to toning down the hot spots in that area, a light sponge tool desaturation could effectively deemphasize the gums. I would emphasize very light adjustments here--somewhere in the realm of 4-7%--as dull, tending toward grayscale gums would be very bad indeed!
Again, thanks for the great lesson on less is more, except when it comes to layers, where it seems you can never have too many.

[skydog]

Are you stopping at only one rebroadcast for each event?

[Andrew Lawrence]

Originally Posted by skydog

Are you stopping at only one rebroadcast for each event?

I just missed this event......

I would have loved to have seen it. Any chances of more rebroadcasts of this one?

[shamrock2008]

Agree with Andrew ¬