Hello and welcome to the overview of the Pro Workflow X system for Photoshop, the
best way to Photoshop ever. In this video we're going to see what exactly is the
Pro Workflow X, every single function on its panel and what makes it the most
efficient way to photoshop. For your convenience, this video has been Time Stamped
into various chapters, so you can go ahead and skip to any topic that you'd like
from the description below. So if you're as excited as I am,
let's get started. There are a lot of ways to process a photo in Photoshop, but
there's usually one best approach and this approach is completely different
for a high-end Beauty retoucher, who deals with highly detailed skin, or a thriving
professional photo studio dealing with natural light portrait. Or a landscape
photographer dealing primarily with dramatic tones and color, and success in
any of these genres is not only determined by quality but also by
achieving deadlines and sales. With that in mind Pro Workflow X has been expressly
designed for efficiency and accuracy in retouching. So what exactly is the Pro Workflow X
system for Photoshop? Well to get a better understanding, let's begin with
what's included with the Pro Workflow X system. First and foremost is the
three-in-one Photoshop panel with Portrait mode for fashion, lifestyle and
portrait retouching. Then the Beauty mode for high-end and beauty retouching, and
the Scene mode for landscape and composites.
Next is the Pro Workflow X photoshop action set and 22 tool presets ready
for you when you need them. Think of the panel as a remote control
and any button you click will trigger the corresponding action and select the
necessary tool preset for you so you actually will never need to play any
action or select the tool preset. Pro Workflow X also comes with a set of 24
high-quality photorealistic brushes. These brushes are well organized into
subfolders as basic brushes, retouch brushes, environmental brushes and art
brushes. These brushes range from skin texture, hair strand, hair flow, stubble
beard and all the way to environmental effects like fog, snow,
rain, clouds and smoke among many others. The basic brush set folder is free and
can be downloaded from the link in the description below. A high quality Studio
Canvas texture background is also included for use with certain portraits
or with digital painting. And finally to complete the Pro Workflow X system there
are 10 essential Lightroom and Camera Raw presets. Both the versions are
exactly the same giving you consistency no matter which raw program you choose
to begin with. The studio light base preset works with all kind of
artificially lit images, be it flash or LEDs. It improves the skin tones and
enhances the details for a crisper image. The natural light base preset is for
portraits shot and natural light it is very similar to the studio light, but
with slightly more dynamic range. You can also use the HDR landscape base for
further boost in dynamic range of natural light. For a more stylized look
there is earthy matte base, cinematic film base and black and white. The earthy matte
base gives your image muted tones and with just the white balance sliders you
can tone your image the way you want. Warmer colors work well with earthy matte base
along with some vignette. The cinematic based emulates the teal orange film look,
and again all you need to do is find the right white balance to get the perfect
color. These two presets alone can cover most of the popular Instagram looks that
you see today and that's precisely what they are intended to be used for, a Lightroom
only workflow for travel or personal images. For images to be edited
in Photoshop, use either the clean studio light base or natural
light base preset. And you can find these exact same presets in Adobe Camera Raw,
minus the lens correction and vignette ones. For those who love using the Camera Raw
filter, you can also apply these presets to a single PSD layer or even a jpg file.
Now let's begin with the Pro Workflow X panel overview. The panel has three
sections the top section of the panel includes an Undo and Redo button, along
with a tool set. The middle section of the panel is divided into three tabs of
portrait, beauty and scene modes. The bottom section of the panel is divided
into drop-down tabs of power tools + techniques
and export + user actions. Let's start with the top section, this section
is always active no matter what mode you are on. The undo or redo button lets you
undo or redo your steps up to thousand times, the default number is 20. To
increase that number go to photoshop preferences and choose performance. Under
history and cache, set the history state setting to a desired value. The
recommended setting is between 200 to 500 as it doesn't affect photoshop's
performance and still gives you a lot of undo states. The tool set gives you
quick access to the most essential tools for photo retouching. These tools are
always away from the clutter ready to be picked. They are the exact same tools
found in Photoshop but unlike the default ones they don't get lost when
you cycle through the hidden tools. In the mid section, first is the Portrait mode
which is ideal for not only portraits but also fashion and lifestyle images.
The portrait mode is subdivided in the Skin retouch pro, Color grade pro and
photo illustration. The first step in skin retouching is healing and cloning,
as a reminder you will be prompted with these tips. This button creates a new
healing layer with the Spot Healing tool selected for you. Use the Spot Healing
tool to clean all visible spots on the skin and actually anywhere in your image.
You can also use the patch tool or healing brush or clone stamp to clone out
blemishes on the skin if required. When done
choose a step 2, either full-body mid-length or headshot, depending on your
image. The brush tool with proper settings is selected and all I need to
do now is paint only those areas of the skin having uneven skin texture or color
transitions. Your images can be 8-bit or 16-bit the panel with auto detect it and
choose the appropriate settings without you having to worry about them. Do not
paint over any edges or corner areas of the skin, you can fine-tune the
smoothness level by adjusting the opacity slider of the smooth layer, the
plus side is to increase the smoothness and you need to move the opacity slider
in that direction and the minus side is to decrease it. Same with the skin
texture use the opacity slider of the texture layer to increase or decrease
the texture details. Step three is color dodge & burn.
Although step one can be skipped to start directly with step two, that is
full body, mid length or head shot, step 2 can't be skipped if you want to do color
dodge & burn. If you want to directly go to color dodge and burn you will still
have to click on any one of the step 2 and then move on to step 3. So once
you press the color dodge and burn a soft brush tool with low-flow settings
will be pre-selected for you. What we're going to do in this step is even out the
color transitions so press alt or option key to sample a desired mid tone skin and
gently paint over highlight and shadow areas of the skin to blend the color
transitions. If you want to recover point out hotspots choose a lighter shade of
the mid-tone and paint on the highlights, and although you can't recover the
darkest black shadows you can still lighten some shadow areas by selecting a
darker mid-tone and painting over it. The Fade button in the power tool
section comes very handy to reduce the opacity of each brush stroke to get the
perfect blend.
You can also match skin tones by sampling from one area and painting
over the other.
Once you are done you can also adjust the overall opacity to tone down the
entire effect. Next is Enhance eyes. This creates three separate layers to
target specific areas of the eyes. The brush tool with appropriate settings and
the 'brighten eyes white' layer will be selected for you to start with. Gently
paint over the white areas of the eyeballs to clean them up.
When you're done select the mask of the iris sparkle folder and gently paint
over the iris to add Sparkle, again use the fade tool to fine-tune the
intensity of your brushstroke. Iris color can also be changed by painting on the
iris color - adjustment layer. By adjusting the hue slider you can get the right
color you want, this step is optional and to be used only if required.
Next is whiten teeth. The brush tool with appropriate settings is
pre-selected for you gently paint over the subjects teeth to
naturally brighten them. Very simple and effective.
With the skin tone you can get a smooth and uniform skin color. The brush with
appropriate settings will be pre-selected for you... you might need to
match the skin tone by slightly adjusting the hue slider like so, then go
on and paint over the rest of the skin. paint on oversaturated skin areas so
that it blends and has an even color saturation.
Skin glow lets you contour the skin by adding a gentle sheen to it, the brush
tool with appropriate settings is pre-selected for you. Paint over the skin
highlights very gently to add a soft glow.
Skin texture can be added digitally to certain areas of the skin that are soft.
A custom skin texture brush tool is pre-selected for you, paint to reveal the
texture in skin areas which have lost detail
before/after
Now let's move on to color grade Pro. All these color grades are not random
presets to try one after the other on any given image. They are specifically
designed for certain scenarios and lighting situations. The cinematic color
grade creates the popular teal orange look for your image. An auto skin mask is
created to warm the skin, and separate it from the teal shadows. This mask can be
adjusted manually if required. The skin tone is fully adjustable, the teal color
can be fine-tuned if required... the polarize layer controls the shadow
contrast. Vogue creates the color harmony used in
celebrity portraiture and editorial fashion photography popularized by the
likes of Annie Leibovitz and Norman Jean Ray. An auto skin mask is created to
protect the skin from the cool shadows, if required the mask can be edited
further by painting on it... and the shadow tint layer can be modified via its color
balance sliders. The skin hue can also be fine-tuned to give you control over the
skin tone. This effect works best with images shot in studio or with flash
outdoors. Renaissance can be used in two ways, option one is the default- it
creates a classic warm highlights and matte greenish gray shadows to replicate
the classic color scheme and the tone of master paintings like Rembrandt.
Interestingly this color scheme also is seen in some of Annie Leibowitz
portraits. This works best with low-key images shot in the studio or with window
light. The second option is by turning off the visibility of the layers Age
filter and Candle warm tone and increasing the opacity of the green tint
layer to 100%, you can get the fluorescent lighting effect for use with urban
fashion images. Vintage adds authentic-looking vintage
colors from the 1970s era color reproduction to any image. All these
layers are fully adjustable.
Candy is a multi-purpose recipe for vibrant colors. Use the optional rainbow
overlay or dreamy daylight images which can be resized and placed anywhere. With
the rainbow layer off it also works great with landscapes especially sunsets
and nightlife images.
For a bright airy look you can combine it with the warm flare effect. Warm flare adds a
light glow or flare which can be scaled to any size and move around to a desired
spot in your image. To seamlessly blend flare with the image a warm ambient
light diffusion layer is created, of which the intensity can be controlled
via the layer opacity. With polarizer you can instantly overpower the sun. It
creates a look popularized by the 2010 Gucci ads, with dark teal skies and golden
brown shadows. An auto skin mask is created to warm the skin and separate it
from the muddy shadows. This effect works best with fashion images shot in strong
daylight or with flash outdoors. Lifestyle creates a crisp warm look with a
hint of cool shadows this effect is ideal for lifestyle portraits of kids,
teens, families and wedding engagement sessions. Autumn turns all the greens in
the image to a warm autumn leaf color this effect is ideal for portraits shot
in natural green environments. Film Shift is a perfect creamy film color finish to
any digital image, designed for subtle use it can also be used for dramatic
Polaroid style film look by increasing the opacity of its layer group. This
effect can also be mixed with other color grades. Black & White Tones
creates a black and white conversion using one of the most effective
techniques that gives you full control over the tonal range of your image. The
black & white Details Base controls the details and clarity. With the black
and white Adjustment layer you can individually fine-tune the black and
white tones based on their respective colors. You also have an s-curve contrast
layer and on the top are optional tones you can add a sepia, selenium or a silver
gelatin tone by simply turning on the layer visibility. The Apply LUT button
gives you instant access to the color lookup table adjustment layer dialogue
box. The final section of the portrait mode
is Photo illustration which contains two stylized looks. The Grunge portrait is a
complex technique that has been simplified to a press of a button. It
gives an overall gritty feeling to the image with muddy brown tone and
muted colors. All the layers are adjustable and this effect works great on portraits
of old men to enhance wrinkles and even athletes when their muscles are oiled up
for an extra shine. Digital painting creates a realistic oil-on-canvas look,
the brushes and layers are selected for you and all you need to do is paint in
gentle dabs to reveal the details of the important areas of your new masterpiece.
You can also add a little bit of Photoshop canvas filter and finish it
off with a studio canvas texture overlay which is included with the Pro Workflow X.
The renaissance color grade usually works well with this look. The next step
in the mid section after the Portrait mode is the Beauty mode, which is
subdivided into Beauty Retouch Pro and Makeup and hair. The Beauty Retouch Pro
section is a set of go to tools used for high-end beauty retouching. There are two
ways of healing and three types of dodging and burning that professional
retouchers swear by and rely on. All these techniques are capable of great results
so the panel gives you the choice to pick your own method. The first button is
Split heal + tone blend. The panel auto-detects if your image is in 8-bit or 16-bit
and uses the appropriate settings, and you can dial in the blur radius. The
texture layer and an appropriately set healing brush tool is pre-selected for
you, with this you can heal on a frequency separate the texture layer
without affecting the colors. You can use the tone blend layer to blend colors if
required. This is an optional step and ideally should be used in the beginning
of the workflow. With the heal clone button three different layers will be
created with different blend modes and the healing brush tool will be
pre-selected for you. All these layers have layer masks and are locked in
position to secure them from accidental movements. You can also use the clone
stamp tool on these layers. For standard healing or cloning work, use the
normal blend mode layer.
To heal or clone only the dark areas use the light and blend mode layer, and to
heal or clone only the light areas use the darkened blend mode layer. With the
Dodge & burn curves + color corrections, dodge and burn layers are
created using the curves method, along with color correction applied over them
as a separate hue/saturation clipping layer. The brush tool with appropriate
settings is pre-selected for you, if required fine-tune the hue saturation of
the color correction layers. Dodge & burn 50% gray instantly creates a
50% gray layer set to soft light mode... the brush tool with appropriate dodge &
burn settings and the white color is selected for you to start with dodging.
Paint with black color to burn, use the X key on your keyboard to switch between
dodging and burning. Soft Light Dodge & Burn creates a blank layer set to soft
light mode. The dodge & burn brush tool settings with the white color is
selected for you to start the dodging. Paint with a black color to burn. This
method is very similar to the torch and burn 50% gray method.
Color fix creates a blank layer set to color mode with a brush tool selected.
Press alt or option key to sample a desired skin color from image and gently
paint to match you and saturation in the dodge & burn effected areas. With skin
tone balance, the brush tool with appropriate layer mask is pre-selected
for you, and it's very useful especially if the skin has oversaturated yellow or
magenta patches. You can fine-tune the skin color by slightly adjusting the hue
slider. Paint over the highly saturated skin areas so that it blends and has an
even tone. With Contour and Sheen paint over the skin gently to add highlight
and shine.
The Paint layer creates a normal blank layer, with the brush tool pre-selected
for you choose the skin or hair brushes from the brush palette for
photorealistic painting.
Use the visual help layers to assist you identify areas that need work during
dodge and burn. Inverting helps to detect areas that you might overlooked in the
normal greyscale view. The brightness and contrast of the luminosity help layer
can be adjusted when working in bright or dark areas. Dust check layer is also
included to identify spots while healing. Split View creates two separate windows of
the same image document and tiles them side-by-side. One view can be zoomed in
to actual pixels while the other set to fit on screen. You can edit in any
view and see the effect in both views simultaneously. This not only solves the
most common issue of zooming in and out again and again but also enables micro
and macro dodging and burning at the same time in two different windows. When
done close any one of the duplicate window. The next section is Makeup and
hair. The hair and makeup section tools can also be used right after the Skin Retouch
Pro section from the Portrait mode to further enhance portraiture. With Mascara
Eyelashes gently paint around the eyelashes, and with lower opacity on the
eyebrows to give them more definition. With eyeshadow color gently paint on the
eyelids to add color, choose any eyeshadow color from the color fill
adjustment layer... adjust the layer opacity to fine-tune.
With smokey eyes gently paint in dark eyeshadow for the smokey eyes look.
With lipstick shades gently paint on the lips to add color, choose any lipstick
shade from the color fill adjustment there and then adjust the layer opacity to
fine tune. With creamy foundation paint a creamy base foundation on the skin
preparing it for digital makeup. Be very subtle with the application. With rosy
cheek blush gently paint a rosy shade over the cheekbones, and then use the
fade tool or the layer opacity to fine-tune. With bronzer tan spray paint
on the skin to add a bronze tan look, adjust the layer opacity of the tan and
bronzer layers to individually control the intensity. With white powder mask you
can paint in white on your subjects face to create a Geisha look, you can also
paint on the nail tips to do a French manicure with this tool.
With hair color paint on the hair to add color choose any hair color shade from
the color fill adjustment layer and adjust a layer opacity to fine tune. Hair
conditioner smooths out your subjects hair to make it soft and silky, adjust
the layer opacity to fine tune when done. With hair highlight paint over the hair
very gently to enhance the existing highlights. Use the lighten facial hair
tool after the main portrait retouch workflow only if required.
Gently paint on the facial hair to soften it.
The final tab in the mid section of the panel is the Scene mode which has the
Quick Mask Pro section for masking and blending. The color buttons on the top
creates a quick mask preview of its respective color.
You can adjust the selection by using the refine mask button. The refine mask
button lets you take full control of the luminosity range of the quick mask
preview in real time via the levels adjustment. Like standard masks, the white
areas are the ones that will be selected later.
The load as button loads the final mask preview directly as a selection,
curves adjustment, hue/saturation adjustment,
levels adjustment or as a colorful adjustment layer.
The curves button under the load as section works only with the quick mask
preview and is different from the curves button in the power tool section which
creates a standard curves adjustment layer. The lights, mids and darks buttons
create a quick luminosity mask preview of its respective zone of
highlights mid-tones or shadows. After you click any button check in the
preview of if it covers the area that you want, if not cancel the mask preview
and pick another button. The cancel mask button simply cancels the quick mask
preview, use it to discard the current mass preview before selecting another
one. Like standard masks the white areas are the one that will be selected later.
You can also choose the first lights or darks button, then go to the Refine mask,
and for lights move the shadow slider all the way to the highlights... and you
can get the entire luminosity range. Additionally, a black and white
adjustment layer is created for luminosity masks only, to take even further
control of the mask preview using specific colors in your image.
Next to the refine mask, is a set of refining tools. Use them to paint over
the quick mask preview. The Dodge tool lets you paint white over the gray areas
but doesn't affect the blacks, the Burn tool lets you paint black or the gray
areas but doesn't affect the whites, paint white to paint everything white
and the paint black to paint everything black. You can also make a selection and
fill in white or black in these layers. You can use them multiple times if
required. These are the classic tools used for
masking with channels but in a much faster, intuitive and an innovative
package. Skin mask creates a quick mask preview of skin tones, this works best
when the skin tones are evenly lit. Color range opens up the color range for you
to make the selection make sure that the Select menu is set to sample colors and
localized color clusters is checked. You can start by using the eyedropper tool
to click and make a selection, to select more areas you can either use the plus
eyedropper tool or hold down the shift key then click and drag. To remove
unwanted areas use the minus eyedropper tool or hold down the alt or option key.
On clicking ok the panel creates a mask preview of the selected color range
which you can find him further by using the refine mask button on the panel. The
Invert and Paint In buttons are to be used once your layer has the final mask.
The invert button selects the mask of the active layer and inverts it. Click on
it again to invert the mask back. This button doesn't inverse selections, it is
only for inverting masks. The paint in button creates a new group with a black
mask of the current layer and selects the brush tool with appropriate settings
and lets you paint him to reveal the effect of that layer. This is very handy
if you want to mask in a layer which already has a mask as Photoshop doesn't
allow you to have two masks on the same layer.
Blend If is a powerful feature for blending light or even color of the
current layer with the underlying layers. The Blend If button opens up the blending
options dialog box for the current layer to blend manually. The clear blend If
button resets all the blending settings to default. The panel has the most
important settings of blend if ready to use you don't need to manually do it
every time. The blend if Shadows button blends the current layer with the
shadows of the underlying layer, the blend if mid-tones button blends the
current layer with the mid-tones of the underlying layer and blend if highlights
button blends the current layer with the highlights of the underlying layer. Many
of the panels techniques like sharpening and film grain have blended pre applied.
The bottom section of the panel is divided into two accordion tabs of Power
tools + Techniques followed by Export + User Actions. The power tool sections
begin with the Fade button, with fade you can reduce the opacity of the previous
command or tool to make it blend perfectly with your image. This is
completely different to layer opacity which reduces the opacity of the entire
layer. Fade is available only immediately after a brushstroke or a
filter, you can't even use the save command in between. The layer copy button
duplicates the current layer or if an area is selected copies its content from
the current layer to a new layer. The merge up button merges all visible
layers to a new layer right on top of the layer stack. The content aware fill
button requires a selection to be made first, this fills the selection with
content-aware and then deselects it. The content aware
scale button enables you to resize the images without over distorting important
visual content, it also preserves the image quality much better than
traditional transformations. The Warp command lets you drag control points to
manipulate the shape of either the entire image or selected area of an
image. The even saturation button gives you
total control over the saturation balance of your image, you can decrease
the saturation from all saturated areas by adjusting the saturation slider of
the high saturation mask adjustment layer, and you can increase the
saturation from under saturated areas by adjusting the vibrancy slider of the low
saturation mask adjustment layer to achieve the perfect balance in
saturation. The dynamic range button creates a dynamic range layer folder
which opens up the details in shadows and highlights. Additionally a daylight
balance layer is also created to correct the white balance. Adjust the opacity of
the dynamic range and the daylight balance layers to find the perfect
balance for your image. The Dodge tool creates a single dodge layer using the
curves method.
Similarly the burn tool creates a single burn layer using the curves method.
The curve tool creates a standard curves adjustment layer directly from the panel.
The frequency separation button auto detects if it's an 8 or 16 bit file and
separates the image into texture, that is high frequency and blur, that is low
frequency layer based on the parameters you set. Work on the blur layer with
clone stamp to fix skin color transition and on the texture layer with the
healing word to fix the skin texture. Additionally a color dodge & burn layer is
created in between to correct the color tones if needed. The IHP button is a
smart Inverted High Pass effect, so the Gaussian blur and high pass levels can
be readjusted any time via smart filters. The brush tool with appropriate
settings is pre-selected for you. Gently paint to reveal the effect. The
matte effect gives your image a matte look by fading the black and white... the
intensity of the effect in shadows and highlights can be controlled
individually.
The texture overlay button lets you choose a texture or an image file you
want to place as an overlay. A studio canvas texture background is included
with the pro workflow X but you can use this tool to place any texture image you
have on your computer. The transform tool will be selected for you simply rotate
the texture file to correct the orientation and transform it to fit your
image, when done the brush tool will be selected for you to mask out the
important areas if required. For most textures the soft light blend mode works
best but you should experiment with other blend modes as well.
The vignette button adds a smooth dark vignette layer around the corners of
the image without affecting much of the highlights... adjust opacity to fine-tune
the intensity. The film grain adds an authentic layer of film grain over the
image, since it's a smart filter you can adjust the grain size and also adjust
opacity to fine-tune. The sharpen button creates a sharpen smart object layer
which can be fine-tuned anytime. With the smart liquify button you can apply
liquify non-destructively as a smart filter. It's a good practice to use the
liquify in the end of your workflow, but in case you don't, now you have the
update re-liquify button. The update re-liquify button instantly modifies the
liquify adjustments incorporating all recent layer edits at any given stage of
your workflow. You can also revert the liquify anytime by clicking on the
update first, this brings the liquify on top of all the layers with all recent
adjustments, and now you can simply turn off the visibility to revert the liquify.
The make Smart button converts the active layer to a smart object layer.
The smart copy button creates a new smart object via copy, which is not
linked to its origin. This duplicate smart object layer is an independent
copy and hence the edits won't be mirrored on its original. The Edit smart
button lets you edit the contents of a smart object. For raw files open as a
smart object, this command opens up the Adobe camera raw filter.
Next is the export plus user action section. The duplicate button instantly
creates an exact but independent duplicate copy of your document from its
current history state into a new window with all the layers intact. The flatten
button merges all the layers into the background layer. The save as button
opens of the save as dialog box for saving the file. The resize/sharpen
button duplicates the image document and allows you to resize with custom image
dimensions, a sharpen intensity layer is created to adjust the sharpening of the
resized image... you can flatten it after adjustment. The save for web button opens
up the save for web dialog box for saving the file. With the user actions
from a1 to g5 you can link up to 35 of your favorite and most used actions from
any other set to these buttons. As an example the A1 button currently
contains an auto fix adjustment action and is included with the panel. Let's add
another action to use with the a2 button on the panel, so the first step is to
drag and drop any action from another set to the action set PWX user actions
in the action palette.
Next rename the action exactly as the name of the button on the panel you want
it associated with so in this case A2. Finally delete the preinstalled
A2 dummy action, now you can run this new action when you click the A2
button on the pro workflow X panel. So there you have it, I hope this gives you
a better understanding of all the tools on the panel and how they can add
simplicity and speed to your workflow. Even if you're new to photoshop Pro Workflow X
is a great learning tool, and of course if you're a seasoned professional
Pro Workflow X is a powerful business tool which can help you achieve consistent
top quality results in no time and impress your clients. So if you have any
questions regarding any tools or workflow, please leave them in the comments
below. There will be loads of Photoshop and Pro Workflow X tutorials coming very
soon on this channel so make sure to subscribe, until next time- happy retouching!
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