Retouching for a photographer - free course from Skillbox, training, Date: December 3, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 07, 2023
For those new to photography
Learn to professionally edit photos in Photoshop. Create an attractive portfolio and be able to retouch photos for social networks or to order.
For photographers
Learn advanced retouching techniques, systematize your knowledge, and add strong work to your portfolio. You can take the quality of your photos to a new level and earn more.
For computer graphics artists
You will understand how to apply new effects in your work and make the appearance of computer characters realistic. You will improve your post-processing skills and be able to take on more complex and expensive projects.
More than 8 years of experience in photo retouching and processing. Collaborates with Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, L'Officiel, Esquire, Allure. Processes images for Samsung, Aussie, S7 Airlines, Reebok, PepsiCo, Calvin Klein, Google, Aqua Minerale, Nivea, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, Pantene, Casio and other global brands.
Retouching from scratch
Landscape with brushes. Layers
Get familiar with the Photoshop interface and learn what layers are. Learn to work with gradients, fills and brushes. Draw a landscape and add objects from photographs to it.
Scenery. Adjustment layers and masks
Explore adjustment layers and clipping masks. Complete your landscape with masks, color correction and textures.
Retouching tools. Dodge&Burn
Get started with portrait retouching and get acquainted with the Healing Brush group of tools and the Dodge&Burn technique. Learn the layers for this technique and its pros and cons.
Frequency decomposition
Get acquainted with the technique of frequency decomposition. Learn to tune and blur the low, mid and high frequencies and create action.
Liquify. Color correction
Learn to work with the Liquify filter tools, add textures to a portrait, adjust sharpness, and make color corrections using adjustment layers.
Retouch PRO
Frequency decomposition as a tool for working with texture
Get acquainted with the concept of layer-by-layer and non-destructive retouching. Study the features of choosing a blur radius in frequency decomposition. Learn what problems can arise when working with texture, anatomy and design and how to solve them.
An advanced approach to working with retouching tools
Learn to retouch eyes, lips, eyelashes, nails, hair, master the method of drawing by copying. Learn how to fix light traps using collaging.
Dodge&Burn lightening and darkening technique
Study the “cleaning” and “carving” approaches within the framework of the Dodge&Burn technique and understand in what cases you need to use them. Learn to work with skin and correct light traps with doves, burns, shifts and vignettes.
Color retouching
Learn the concept of pixel = color + light, Hue/Saturation techniques, and white point in curves. Learn the manual method of color correction.
Liquify. Actions. Process setup
Proceed to plastic surgery - the final stage of retouching. Apply all the knowledge you have acquired to retouch a complex portrait, learn to modify techniques for specific tasks and work with actions.
Final project
Processed photos
You will consolidate your acquired skills and perform complex retouching on different photographs that you can put in your portfolio.