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Photoshop Retouching Techniques for Every Problem

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Overview

Wellcome to my course on most common retouching issues you will face in photoshop!

I have designed this course thinking of every day photographers and photoshop users that struggle with retouching when some weird problem appears. We have all been there, working on set of the images while suddenly we need to face this one annoying issue, trying to fix it for hours before finally finding a solution. But not anymore, becausethis course is full of retouching solutions for most common retouching tasks!

With my course you will learn important retouching subjects as portrait retouching, beauty retouching, retouching family or wedding images, or even editorials. This course focus on all of the photoshop struggles that photographers face in every day work.

If you want to learn how to retouch images fast and in the right way, this is the best course available right now on the market! You will learn how to retouch skin, lips, make up, body parts, clothes, hair and much more!

Learning from professional post production artist is the key to developing your own skills and avoiding future mistakes. This course is best choice if you are photographer who do a lot of portraits and need to deliver high quality work to their clients. Also, after this course you will be able to retouch images of others which allows you to make extra money as a retoucher, just as I do!

Let me just tell you the list of subjects I am going to teach you in this retouching course:

  • Don’t worry if you just start with photoshop because in this course I will start by introducing retouching tools available in photoshop. You will know the differences between them, how they work and when is best to use specyfic tool.

  • I will introduce to you different retouching techniques for speeding up your retouching workflow, including frequency separation. For those who seek more advanced knowledge I will introduce dodge and burn retouching technique.

  • You will learn how to retouch even extreme cases of skin imperfection such as deep acne, scars and discolouration. What’s best about it. You will know how to retouch this in non destructive way.

  • You will learn how to recover or build skin texture from scratch.

  • You will learn different techniques for retouching, dark eye shadows, and other common issue.

  • You will learn how to retouch hot. Retouch hair, including techniques on how to make hair soft and shiny.

  • You will learn how to retouch body hair.

  • In some more detailed work I will show you many techniques on retouching lips, you will know how to clean them up, define lip line, make them smooth and add lip gloss.

  • You will know how to retouch eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, make up and nails!

  • This course will teach you how to deal with stretch marks, underarm folds, and

  • how to retouch clothes and glass reflections.

  • You will know how to mask even most difficult cases of messy hair and change background.

  • How to define natural curves of the models.

  • And what is the best,

  • I have prepared for you a lot of tasks so you can practice with provided images and retouching actions!

So if you feel this is what you are looking for. Let’s start our photoshop adventure. So if learning photoshop retouching for absolutely every task, from expert in the field is your thing. I feel you should jump to the next video.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to the course
  • Healing brush tool
  • Clone stamp tool
  • Patch tool
  • Using basic retouch tools for skin clean up
  • Introduction to frequency separation
  • Frequency separation - uneven lights
  • Frequency separation - fix lights and colors
  • Dodge & Burn retouching technique
  • Correcting skin color after retouching acnes and scars
  • Recover skin texture
  • Create skin texture from scratch
  • Remove dark eye circles - method I
  • Remove dark eye circles - method II
  • Remove dark eye circles - method III
  • Retouch background hair
  • Retouch background hair II
  • Retouch cross hair with clone stamp tool
  • Hide cross hair
  • Retouch cross hair with frequency separation
  • Make hair smooth with frequency separation
  • Paintery hair effect
  • Retouch body hair
  • Retouch body hair II
  • Retouch body hair on the skin
  • Retouch body hair on the skin II
  • Removing fine moustache
  • Retouch lips with basic retouching tools
  • Define lip line
  • Make lips smooth with frequency separation
  • Make lips smooth with inverted high pass 2.0
  • Add lip gloss
  • Create mask on lips
  • Whiten teeth
  • Retouch eyebrows
  • Paint natural eyelashes
  • Change color of the make up
  • Brighten eyes
  • Enhance color of eyes
  • Create nail reflections
  • Retouch stretch marks
  • Retouch stretch marks fast
  • Retouch underarm folds
  • Retouch clothes
  • Retouch eye glasses reflections
  • Retouch folding clothes I
  • Retouch folding clothes II
  • Define body curves
  • Use select and mask to change background color
  • Change background color with color range
  • Masking messy hair
  • Eyes
  • Lips
  • Hair
  • Stretch marks
  • Under arms
  • Clothes
  • Portrait retouch
  • Full Retouch: Clean up
  • Full Retouch: Details
  • Full Retouch: Frequency Separation Touch ups
  • Full Retouch: Dodge & Burn
  • Full Retouch: Color Shift Corrections
  • Full Retouch: Lights
  • Full Retouch: Color Grading
  • Full Retouch: Final Touch ups

Taught by

Marcin Mikus

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