From the course: Photoshop and Lightroom: Portrait Retouching in the Age of AI

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Solution: Generate a new portrait background

Solution: Generate a new portrait background

From the course: Photoshop and Lightroom: Portrait Retouching in the Age of AI

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Solution: Generate a new portrait background

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] As you know by now in these Solution movies, I like to show you a few extra things beyond the basics, and so that's what I want to do here. I want to show you how we can change the background of course, but also add another step in that we haven't talked about. So when we select the subject, it creates a nice selection of our subject here. Yet if we go to one of our select tools, we can navigate to Select and Mask. And in Select and Mask, one of the things that you'll discover, almost always, is that when it selects the subject, it does so with some mistakes. So here I'm going to use this tool to add in this part and add in the eye over there that it missed, or a little bit of the chin, a little bit underneath here. With the hair, we can use this brush and we can paint over that hair to add a little bit better transparency. In other words, it will work a little bit better to blend into the background, and then paint around these edges. We can also…

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