Ultimate Retouching
Learn the step-by-step process of retouching in this ultimate course. From skin and hair retouching to color grading and marketing basics, become a pro retoucher and enhance your photography skills. Suitable for beginners and advanced learners alike.
What you’ll learn
- A step by step proven method of retouching, which will set you on a road to quick progress and success.
- Retouching skin, hair and clothes.
- Dodge and burn + HDR
- Creating your own retouching style.
- Which tools to use and how to configure them.
- Ins and outs of cleaning, creative retouching, relighting and photoshop grading.
- Analysing the weak and strong points of a photograph.
- Knowledge of the process, which an image goes through, in order to attain it’s full potential.
- Pricing, marketing and business basics of the postproduction market.
- Talking with clients, important aspects to think about before starting a retouching assignment.
- An overview of how the job of a professional retoucher looks
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This is the ultimate retouching course, which will create a retoucher out of you in no time!
If you’re reading this, then you share our passion for photography and retouching, so let’s make it happen!
Why did we make this course?
We wanted to make a difference to the retouching community and so embarked on a year long journey. It has all you need to know in order to become a better retoucher. Up to now, there wasn’t a retouching course created by a true post-production studio.
How does the course work?
Each chapter is dedicated to certain aspect of retouching, from technical, through creative to business. If you feel you don’t need to learn all of it, then feel free to skip parts. You can always come back to them later.
Our system is designed in a modular way, so you can adapt it to your working conditions and requirements.
Quickly browse through
Each chapter starts with a short intro so you know what’s coming. At the end of each chapter there is a PDF summary, so you can quickly browse through and see all you will be learning.
Who is the course for?
Are you a beginner? That’s just fine. We will walk you through all the steps necessary.
Working pro? We’ve got you covered also. Of course you will want to skip some of the basic retouching lectures, but there are plenty of more advanced techniques and the workflow we outline is a one of a kind approach to a whole production pipeline.
What you will learn:
How to setup Photoshop for retouching
Analysing an image
Specifics of tools used for retouching
Skin retouching
Clothes retouching
Hair retouching
Dodge & Burn
HDR
Color corrections
Color grading
Shape changes of model and background
Adding grain textures to an image
Basics of marketing for retouchers
Pricing your work
Who this course is for:
- People how want to learn retouching. Novice and advanced alike.
- Photographers wanting to up their retouching skills.
- Retouchers wanting to go to a pro level.
- Pro retouchers who want to learn a large studio workflow and practises.
- Graphic designers who struggle with correcting images.
- Art directors who would like to know what is possible in retouching and be able to do rough changes based on their ideas on images.
- Ecommerce specialists
- Art department employees within to broaden their photoshop knowledge.
- Archivists needing better skills to clean scans and reproductions.
