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Retouching & Adobe Photoshop Techniques

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Overview

Learn in-depth techniques for retouching images to perfection, helping your clients look their best, and expressing your creative vision. Whether you're retouching skin, whitening teeth, or reshaping body features, Adobe Photoshop allows you to perfect reality as well as bring your creative ideas to life. In this workshop, portrait and fashion photographer Lindsay Adler will cover essential retouching techniques and show you how Photoshop can make the impossible possible. Lindsay will cover countless creative techniques, including creating porcelain skin, changing colors, displacement maps, adding textures, adding makeup in Photoshop, quick retouching plugins, and dozens of other methods you can apply to your own photography.

Let Adobe Photoshop become your next realm of creative expression. Lindsay will also include a couple of live shoots and live retouches so you can see an image from start to finish and learn the nuances between a portrait, beauty, and avant-garde retouch.

Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6

Syllabus

  • Class Trailer
  • Essential Retouching Techniques
  • Intro Q&A
  • Portrait Retouching
  • Body Shaping: Liquify
  • Beauty Retouching
  • Shoot: Portrait, Beauty, and Avant Garde
  • Workflow and Lightroom
  • Beauty Image Retouch Review
  • Portrait Recap and Frequency Separation
  • Frequency Separation Q&A
  • Blend Modes
  • Creative Techniques: Color
  • Miscellaneous Creative Techniques
  • Faux HDR Look
  • Avant Garde Retouch
  • Displacement Maps
  • Audience Image Retouching
  • Special Shoot: Halloween
  • Compositing Basics
  • Compositing Examples
  • Creative Skin Effects
  • Additional Creative Techniques
  • Retouching Dark Skin and Q&A
  • Common Problems
  • Perfect Mask Plug-in
  • Audience Image Retouching
  • Sharpener Pro and Color Efex Plug-ins
  • Cinemagraphs

Taught by

Lindsay Adler

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