![]() Again, these are tools that have always been around in photoshop, but the RTK team has made it as easy to do as a single click of a button.Ĭheck out the video below for a more detailed explanation of the Saturation tools. As you can see in the screencap below, the Saturate & Desaturate with Help button creates a series of layers and folders to walk you through adjusting the eyes (localized) as well as the entirety of the image in a process that’s as simple as running some dodge & burn. The other features of this workflow that had me super impressed was the Selective Saturation tools. Watch this video for an in depth explanation on the Dodge & Burn enhancements I’ll never go back to my old way after testing this out! Honestly, this alone was worth the price of admission for me. This was something I never even thought of before and did a side by side comparison and was blown away. One of the boasted improvements in this panel is the dedicated Dodge & Burn scripts where they made a typical D&B curves adjustment but with two points to keep the amount of color / hue shifting to a minimum. Everything is arranged in a well thought-out layout, including dodging and burning as well as creating folders to keep your layers organized. Wallstrom designed this add-on to help streamline any retoucher’s workflow making it a great place to start for someone new, or a working professional. The first add-on you’ll notice when installing RTK 3.1 is the Conny Wallstrom Workflow add-on. ![]() The toolkit integrates with Adobe Photoshop letting you layout and design your own custom panels to suit your perfect workflow, and it comes loaded with add-ons from the development team to help jumpstart and simplify your workflow without any homework whatsoever. Since version 3.1 is my first time diving into the Retouching Toolkit I can only speak to the press release on “what’s new” so i’d love to hear from existing and previous users about your experiences and feelings when upgrading from version 1, 2, or even 3.0 in the comments below! But I digress, the notes on the upgrade from 3 to 3.1 are not groundbreaking by any means, but from what I could tell and read, they still managed to make some pretty significant improvements to the extension.īasically the Retouching Toolkit is what the Adobe Configurator could have become if Adobe had kept it up to code and made any improvements to it. If you’re new to the customization options available to you, this video is a great asset. If you want to get into a deepdive on customization and manual installation of the toolkit i’ll refer you to the video immediately below which walks you through pretty much everything you can think of. Installation was a breeze with it’s “wizard” walking you through each step of the process including the downloading and installation of optional free add ons available from the website. For many this may be old news, but for me, Version 3.1 was my first time ever getting hands on with this system, and while I was initially overwhelmed with the level of customization available, I still fell in love with the tools in the prebuilt packs and how much smoother they ran when compared to some others out there.
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