How to replace headshot or portrait backgrounds in Photoshop
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2024
- Creating professional portraits is often made over-complicated, it does not need to be!
In this episode of 'The Studio', Nick Church provides a step-by-step tutorial to replace the background of your corporate photography headshot or portrait with any texture or colour using Adobe Photoshop.
This is the tried and tested technique used at Nick Church Photography for our professional headshots and it is fantastic at getting a good fit for branding or skin-tones.
For more information on the Nick Church Photography Workshops, please visit:
www.nickchurchphotography.co.uk/photography-education
If you are struggling with the concepts of layers and masks in this video, then the Photoshop Essentials course in the link above will be perfect. Session runs over Zoom or at our Studio!
The textures used in this tutorial are from:
www.deviantart.com/sirius-sdz
Music: Bad Attitude (Snr. Paul remix) by Nick Church. Full track here:
www.nickchurchphotography.co....
Brilliant guide Nick, really clearly explained and concise.
Hi Nick. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. That was brilliant and exactly what I was looking for. Cheers!
Great - glad you found it useful. Thanks for the feedback!
Awesome tutorial! Loved this.
Thanks Kirsty
Thank you so much. It is really helpful.
My pleasure. Thanks for the feedback :-)
Great to see, thank you.
You’re welcome. Glad it is useful 👍🏼
Very helpful video! Keep it up mate
Thanks Jeremy. Much appreciated. Frequency Separation for retouching coming up next
Another, really great video, super helpful.
Thank you Peter. Will be posting more content soon, as weddings start to wind down
@@NickChurchPhotography Excellent, look forward to it
You save my life, you don't even realize! Thank you for this vid.
Happy to help!
Just discovered your channel Nick. Great videos. Keep them coming. 👍
Thanks Brian - appreciate you stopping by. What sort of content would you most like to see?
@@NickChurchPhotography Hi Nick, I’m not sure if it’s your area but I would love to see a video on an outdoor family portrait session. Thanks. 👍
@@brianjames3734 I may well do this.. stay tuned
Hello Nick, Great video, truly appreciated. Any chance you could show how you can take the final result and copy and paste in Lightroom to apply the settings to a more photos taken in the same sitting?
Hi - the final composite images is a creation in photoshop and there is no way to tell Lightroom to recreate it. What you need is Photoshop Actions, which let you automate aspects of the PS editing process. This will allow you to achieve something closer to what you need. I can run a 1:1 coaching session on how you do this, so let me know if this is of interest. Thanks
Hey Nick. Great video ! I tried clicking the link to get to the same textured background that you used, but couldn't find it. Could you possibly link to the 2 exact backgrounds used in the video? Thanks and just subscribed.
Hey man. Thanks for subscribing. To be honest, the actual background is not overly important, it’s just the texture we need. But I’ll find a new link and update the description… cheers
I used a couple of textures from this pack: www.deviantart.com/sirius-sdz/art/Texture-Pack-20-373191545
...and this one: www.deviantart.com/sirius-sdz/art/Texture-Pack-18-338428339
Hey Nick, at around 14:20, when you are copying the image mask, to the curves mask, are you simply dragging and dropping? When I have tried this, the mask from the image does copy to the curves mask, but disappears from the image. So, not a copy, but a transfer. But, maybe I missed how you did it. Thanks.
Hi Peter, Sorry, this wasn't clear. I should have mentioned that when I dragged the mask at that point I'm holding down Option (Mac) or Command (PC) to copy the mask to the new layer, rather than move it. Cheers
@@NickChurchPhotography Appreciate you taking the time to reply, thanks!
@@NickChurchPhotography I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn’t make the copy. Should have read the comments 14 minutes ago!
I owe you 14 mins. Sorry 😂
Is the app different from the website? I don’t have that option or I can’t find it. I only have the app as I can’t download programs on my work computer, so my only option is to use the app. Is purchasing the app different then purchasing the program? Could I potentially log in on a friends computer?
Hi Adriana. The web-app version that runs in a browser is limited in functionality. So yes, the app/programme that runs on your computer is different. If you have an Adobe cloud subscription you should be able to download the full app on any computer 👍🏼
Hi, Hopefully you are fine. Great work on this Image very helpful video for me.
From Pakistan
You're welcome - thank you :-)
You hop around without explaining the intricate details on how to get to the next step…. I’m a familiar to PS but I catch myself going back to see your mouse movement
Hi - sorry you found it hard to follow. If there is a particular step you need more detail on, just let me know, always happy to answer