Image Editing Retouching and Restoration 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which technique is used to whiten teeth in portrait retouching?
- Adding a Curves layer targeting the teeth with increased brightness and reduced yellow (Correct answer)
- Using the Blur tool
- Applying the Emboss filter
- Using the Sharpen tool
Correct answer: Adding a Curves layer targeting the teeth with increased brightness and reduced yellow
A Curves or Hue/Saturation adjustment masked to the teeth area lets you brighten and desaturate yellow tones for natural whitening.
Question 2: What is the 'Liquify' tool used for in portrait retouching?
- Adding liquid textures
- Reshaping and warping areas of an image, such as facial features (Correct answer)
- Converting to watercolor effect
- Removing motion blur
Correct answer: Reshaping and warping areas of an image, such as facial features
The Liquify filter lets you push, pull, and warp pixels to reshape facial features, body contours, and other areas.
Question 3: Which blend mode is useful when dodging or burning with a 50% gray layer?
- Normal
- Soft Light (Correct answer)
- Screen
- Color
Correct answer: Soft Light
Soft Light blend mode renders 50% gray as neutral, so painting lighter or darker grays on that layer dodges or burns the underlying image non-destructively.
Question 4: What is the advantage of retouching on a separate layer instead of directly on the background?
- Faster processing
- Non-destructive editing — original pixels remain untouched (Correct answer)
- Smaller file size
- Better color accuracy
Correct answer: Non-destructive editing — original pixels remain untouched
Working on a separate layer preserves the original pixels, allowing you to undo, reduce opacity, or discard changes at any time.
Question 5: Which tool in Photoshop is best for removing red-eye caused by flash photography?
- Healing Brush
- Red Eye Tool (Correct answer)
- Clone Stamp
- Hue/Saturation
Correct answer: Red Eye Tool
The Red Eye Tool automatically detects and replaces the red pupil color caused by flash reflection with a natural dark tone.
Question 6: When restoring a torn or scratched old photograph, which approach helps fill in missing areas?
- Emboss filter
- Content-Aware Fill or manual cloning from similar areas (Correct answer)
- Posterize adjustment
- Threshold adjustment
Correct answer: Content-Aware Fill or manual cloning from similar areas
Content-Aware Fill or careful manual cloning from similar regions is used to reconstruct missing areas in damaged photographs.
Image Editing Retouching and Restoration 2
Which technique is used to whiten teeth in portrait retouching?