Photo Retouching Fun!

Back to working with photoshop at school, this time doing some photo retouching. Being self-taught in photoshop years ago, I knew most of the basic things (clone/heal/patch) and being someone who's doing his best to keep up to date I'm wishing we had CS5 so I'd have access to some content aware features, which would speed things up.

But what I wasn't aware of really blew me away, mostly with how quickly and well a really messed up picture could be cured using channels. Really some amazing stuff. Not sure how practical it is to use though, because I don't know many pictures that look as the ones we've been practicing on, but oh well.

Anyway for a quick idea of what I've been up to here are a few really quick family pictures I fixed up this morning, as well as one major retouch job I've been working on for about 6 hours. The hair is a bit flat around the parameter and I should fix up the BG, but I'm a bit fed up with it. Oh, and I changed the body because I don't have the patience to fix that up. (sorry that the others are sideways, again I'm a bit lazy).