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Free video tutorials for Infinite Nodra and our Photoshop plugins, from the first steps to finished deliveries.
Infinite Nodra
Infinite Nodra Academy
Learn Infinite Nodra in 15 short videos, each around a minute and a half. You start with a simple patch that resizes a whole shoot for the client. Step by step you add a crop that finds the face, a basic grade and a film look, control the whole look with a single slider, retouch skin carefully, build your own blocks, turn a patch into a Photoshop panel and run an entire shoot at once. In the last part, an assistant builds a patch for you – with the same nodes you now know.
Every video uses real photos and the real app. New to Infinite Nodra? Start with the 10-minute introduction.
Plays via YouTube (Google) – nothing loads before your click. Watch on YouTube : Infinite Nodra – Photo editing as a recipe you can open, change and run again
The 10-minute introduction
Infinite Nodra is a Mac app built around a simple idea: an edit shouldn’t be a stack of things you did once. It should be a recipe you can open, change and run again whenever you want.
Basics & Look
1Your first patch
What a node is, how a cable carries the image from one node to the next, and how to export with one click.
2Crop that finds the face
A Smart Crop node finds the face by itself and builds the crop around it. The AI nodes run locally.
3A basic grade
Exposure, White Balance, Contrast and Vibrance – and why nothing is baked in: change any step at any time.
4A film look
RGB Curves, Split Toning and Film Grain turn the basic grade into a film look. The order of the nodes changes the result.
5One slider for the whole look
How a setting becomes an input, and how one number can steer several nodes at once.
6Colors that belong together
Color Wheel, Color Harmony and a Gradient Map: one dot on a wheel retunes a whole grade.
Masks & AI
7Treat the subject differently
Person Mask splits subject and backdrop into two branches; Refine Edge brings fine hair strands back.
8Depth of field after the shot
A Depth Map node estimates distance locally on your Mac, and Lens Blur uses it for soft, rounded bokeh.
9Skin, the careful way
Frequency Split, a Bilateral Filter and Frequency Merge – limited to the skin, so the pores survive.
Reuse & Deliver
10Build your own block
Package nodes into a reusable block with four sliders; one edit to the block reaches every patch that uses it.
11From patch to Photoshop panel
Show only the controls that matter and turn a patch into a plugin someone can install without Nodra.
12The whole shoot at once
Run the recipe on every frame of a shoot – the command line, the app and the plugin use the same engine.
13Edits that travel with the file
One file carries the picture and the recipe, with no sidecar file.
14A full color suite
Seventeen nodes from white balance to gamut compression, with a grade that follows your Photoshop selection.
15Let the assistant build it
An assistant builds a patch with exactly the same nodes you already know. Nothing is hidden.
Photoshop plugins
Plugin Tutorials
Short tutorials from our team for each plugin. Videos load from YouTube only when you click them.
Infinite Skin
See How Infinite Skin Works!
Control Highlight and Shadow Exposure
When using the smoothing slider aggressively, the highlights and shadows often may get flatter as a result. Here are two ways to bring back the natural depth of the face.
Fine Lines and Blotchy Skin
You can also use the plugin for specific areas of major concern without having to do the entire face. Blotchy large areas and sharp small areas are in total contrast to each other, here is how the panel tackles both.
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Manually Sharpen and Soften Selective Areas
Let’s say you like the results across the skin but want to take just one particular area further in one way or another, this will show you how to have that additional layer of control.
Priming Skin With the Panel
You may prefer using the panel after your healing and cloning work, but here are also some of the benefits of using it as your first step. There is no wrong or right way, and this panel can be used during many points in the workflow.
Slider Results Not Updating
If while using the panel, you find that the slider doesn’t load the results sometimes after moving it, here is why that happens and an easy way around it.
Infinite Retouch
See How Infinite Retouch Works!
Using the Correct Photoshop Version
Infinite Retouch is a UXP Plugin, and it is only available on 2021 (Version 22.x) and up. Here’s how to ensure you have the right version, how to get it, and what I would recommend in Creative Cloud.
License Key and Trial
If you’ve just downloaded the panel, this video is for you! We’ll go over what’s in the trial and how to activate your key.
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Basic Usage, Modification, and Renaming
Underneath the modest exterior comes levels of modification to customize the panel to your liking. Embrace the true potential of making the panel your own with these simple steps.
The Create Button
At the heart of Infinite Retouch, the Create button comes with an elegant workflow recommendation, but we’ll show you how to make it your own, and incorporate actions into it as well! It will also talk about what type of layers can’t be saved.
Help Layers
From color to detail, help layers in Photoshop allow you see the image in ways that make issues easier to spot! Here’s a look into what each of them do briefly and how you can use it in your workflow!
Retouch Tab
Check out all of our healing, dodge and burn, and frequency separation options, including multiple viewing methods for FS, as well as the ability to auto select a layer and brush type!
Tools Tab
The Tools tab contains the color correction tools, sharpening, merge visible, and multiple grain options. We go over everything except for grain which is a separate video.
Grain
We’ve scanned high resolution 75MP grain from popular film types (which we lovingly call Holy Grain) and their individual lens characteristics on a separate layer. Of course, there is also access to digital noise and the grain filter as well!
Sharpening
We’ve come up with a fantastic algorithm created alongside a master printer! It will ensure you have the perfect sharpening at your defined viewing distance! Or you can use our built in smart sharpen method as well.
Auto Select Action and Auto Select Tool
You have the option to automatically select a tool and preset with most buttons in the workflow! Also, run any action you want in combination for a world of possibilities. It is a brilliant way to save steps while working and it makes this panel truly Infinite!
Export
You never have to remember any export settings ever again with our selection of the most common default sizes for social media and YouTube. You can also save your own most used settings as a recipe and output images for various purposes in no time!
User Tab
A companion to the Create button, the User tab allows you to save multiple workflows, a selection of your own layers, running existing actions, or a mix of all of them! This includes color grading layers so you don’t even need to know how to make an action.
Migrating From Pratik’s Actions
If you use any of my personal actions as seen on The Retouching Series or other classes, this video will ensure all of my students can migrate from using the actions to the panel.
Settings, Backup, and Language
Here’s how to back up or import preferences and layouts, edit your custom presets, or use multiple languages from this section!
Infinite Unify
See How Infinite Unify Works!
Advanced Features in Infinite Unify Plugin 2.0
Second main video of the Unify 2.0 page (shown next to “All about Infinite Unify Plugin 2.0”).
Infinite Unify’s Create Button
Everything starts with the Create Button. Learn about the functionality built into the cornerstone of the Infinite Unify Panel and how to use it to boost your productivity.
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Infinite Unify’s Option Panel
The Option Panel enables you to adjust many aspects of Infinite Unify for greater control of your workflow and the results. This video demonstrates what each option is and how to use them.
Saving Your Gradients in Infinite Unify
Once you’ve created a perfect gradient, this video details the quick, in-panel process of saving it for use on other images.
Infinite Unify’s Community Tab
Learn how to use the community tab to share your best tones and access an ever-growing library of gradients. When creatives help other creatives, everyone wins.
Using Update Notifications in Infinite Unify
Never miss a software update with Infinite Unify’s update-notifier. This video shows you how to keep an eye out for notifications and details the new, streamlined update process.
Synching Settings With Infinite Cloud
Infinite Cloud is a simple way to sync your settings if you are working on multiple computers. Learn how to save and label your settings, so you can not only sync them but also have more than one setup.
Evening Out Skin Tones in Portraits
Uneven skin tones in portraits are quite common, let’s take a look at how to easily fix that.
Fixing Newborn Skin Tone Variations
Learn how to correct uneven skin tones from red feet to different shades across their face and bodies, using the hue blend mode.
Uneven Skin Tones and Tan Lines
Learn how to use Unify as part of the process when fixing tan lines. You’ll learn about blend-if modes and layers to complement the unifying process.
Matching Makeup Color to Any Color Palette
For beauty work, matching makeup to specific color palettes can easily be done with Unify. Here’s how we can use it to match other colors in the shot.
Hue vs Saturation vs Color Blend Modes
Learn how to use the Hue, Saturation, and Color Blend modes and what situations each are to be used in.
Fixing Color Casts With Infinite Unify
Shooting in environments that produce color casts can be annoying, here’s how Unify can take care of that fast and easy.
Body Paint and Makeup for Cosplay
Fix issues with body paint and makeup. You’ll learn about hue/saturation clipping layers for added control!
Unify and Match Colors and Textures for Beverage Shots
With these examples, learn how to use the hue slider and setting Unify to the Saturation blend mode.
Advanced Color Matching Between Subjects
With vast differences between skin tones, you will learn how to use saturation and luminosity helper layers in conjunction with Unify for success.
Infinite Guide
See How Infinite Guide Works!
Infinite Looks
See How Infinite Looks Works!
Infinite Curves
See How Infinite Curves Works!
Infinite Goethe
See How It Works
Infinite Luma
See How Infinite Luma Works!
Realistic Grain Transitions
A classic trait of film grain (one of many) is the ability to have different densities. Luminosity masking can help in getting this effect quicker and more realistic!
Detailed Texture and Color Application
Color grading and texture application in specific luminosity regions of an image can really have an amazing impact to the complexity of the end result! Here’s how we can make that really fun and easy using Infinite Luma!
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Adding Layers of Realistic Glow in the Highlights
A cool effect of Infinite Luma is the ability to use it to add atmosphere to your images. Here’s how to add a nice glow easily!
Infinite Texture
Infinite Texture – Introduction
More to Learn
Video Education
Curated Photoshop courses, for example Epic Composites by Robert Cornelius.
Blog
Interviews, community features and free tutorials from the Infinite Tools community.