Retouching Tutorials

Learn professional hair retouching in Photoshop! Learn how to rescue details, remove flyaways, add volume, and enhance the definition of hair in any photo.

Photoshop  |  Retouching  |  Medium  |  4 hours  |  14 videos

12 Sample Images  |  1 Photoshop Action

Learn how to create beautiful product images for e-commerce! Master the tools and techniques professionals use to change backgrounds, retouch products, and export multiple formats for the web, banners, and ads.

Photoshop  |  Retouching  |  Medium  |  5 hours  |  18 videos

28 RAW Sample Images  |  2 Sample PSDs  |  2 Photoshop Actions

Master the art of professional beauty retouching in Photoshop! Learn advanced skills like dodging and burning, frequency separation, and sharpening–all for creating beautiful portraits with commercial appeal.

Photoshop  |  Retouching  |  Advanced  |  4 hours  |  12 videos

4 RAW Sample Images  |  1 Sample PSD  |  2 Photoshop Actions  |  1 Photoshop Brush

Frequency Separation is one of the most powerful and most difficult techniques to master in the art of retouching. Using our exclusive set of Photoshop actions, you can create beautiful, realistic skin in a fraction of the time.

Photoshop  |  PRO Photoshop Actions  |  Easy  |  15 mins

5 Sample Images  |   1 Photoshop Action  |  1 Install Video   |  1 PDF Quick Install Guide

Professional retouching is a valuable skill and a great way to improve any photo. Learn how to remove skin blemishes, smooth skin tones, clean up flyway hairs, fix exposure, and make subtle adjustments for an all-natural look.

Photoshop  |  Retouching  |  Easy  |  8.75 hours  |  27 videos

21 Sample Images  |  1 Photoshop Brush  |  1 Photoshop Action

Learn the fundamentals of skin retouching! Aaron demonstrates how to remove small and large blemishes, recover skin texture, and even out skin tones in Photoshop.

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Every photo has them; small distractions that take away focus from the subject and scene. Learn how to remove unwanted elements from any photo using the Spot Healing Brush Tool.

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Learn to help eyes look their best by enhancing highlights with Curves, enhancing and adding color with Solid Color Fill, and by applying professional level sharpening with Unsharp Mask.

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Learn how to use Curves Adjustment Layer to quickly and easily dodge and burn any photo. Add more dimension and draw more attention to your subjects!

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Create smooth, vibrant skin tones with natural texture and details with Frequency Separation in Photoshop. Learn how to separate frequencies, edit the details and color independently of one another, and use our Photoshop action to work faster.

Photoshop  |  Retouching  |  Advanced  |  6.75 hours  |  26 videos

7 Sample Images  |  2 Photoshop Actions  |  1 Photoshop Brush

Dodging and burning is a staple technique for professional photographers and retouchers. Learn how to sculpt highlights and shadows to add dimension, remove blemishes, and guide the eyes of the viewer to the most important parts of a photo.

Photoshop  |  Photo Editing  |  Medium  |  5 hours  |  14 videos

16 Sample Images  |  1 Photoshop Brush

Go behind the scenes of a product photoshoot and also see part of the post-production process as Aaron demonstrates how to retouch and extend a background in Photoshop.

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Join Ross Floyd and Aaron Nace as they walk you through 10 product photo edits from start to finish. Learn to cut out objects, remove blemishes, reshape products, and master advanced techniques like frequency separation and dodging & burning.

Photoshop  |  Retouching  |  Medium  |  13.25 hours  |  49 videos

31 Sample Images  |  2 Photoshop Actions

Learn how to color correct skin using Selective Color Adjustment Layers to isolate and adjust individual color channels to dial in the perfect look for your portraits.

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Give your photos a professional finish with sharpening in Photoshop. Learn to enhance details, create contrast, and prepare your images for print, web, and social media.

Photoshop  |  Photo Editing  |  Medium  |  3 hours  |  14 videos

18 Sample Images  |  1 Photoshop Action

With so much natural variation, hair can be one the most challenging things to style and recreate in Photoshop. Not anymore! We break down some simple techniques that will help you shape, fill in, and paint new, realistic hair in minutes.

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Learn to realistically cut out and paint hair in Photoshop. Make quick selections using Select Color Range, make advanced selections with Channels, and paint in new, ultra-realistic hair with the Brush Tool.

Photoshop  |  Retouching  |  Medium  |  4.75 hours  |  18 videos

12 Sample Images   |  10 Photoshop Brushes

Dodging and burning is an incredibly useful technique to add contrast, depth, and definition to your photos.
Learn to dodge & burn in Lightroom with the power of RAW!

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Sharpening is an important last step when finishing an edit. In this tutorial, we show you when and how to sharpen an image using our tried and tested method.

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Having a soft, out-of-focus background is an extremely effective way of drawing the viewer’s eye to your subject. This is best done in camera, but we’ll show you how to do it in Photoshop.

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Batch resizing is ideal for when you need to send a client several images for review but full-size files aren’t necessary. Learn to create an action that will resize an image to a specific length and apply it to all your images.

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From adjusting red, blotchy areas to cleaning up dry, flaky skin, we’ll walk you through some newborn retouching techniques that anyone can learn to help capture memories that will last a lifetime.

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From people and cars to buildings and reflections, if there’s a distraction in an image, we have a method to seamlessly remove it. Follow along was we show you how to create accurate selections, retouch environments, and simplify images.

Photoshop  |  Retouching  |  Medium  |  6.5 hours  |  20 videos

18 Sample Images

In this tutorial, we break down an easy process for reducing the dark circles that can often appear under eyes in a photo.

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Hair will always be one the most challenging areas to retouch and enhance. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to increase the volume of hair using the Liquify Tool and color it with one of Aaron’s favorite methods, a Gradient Map.

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Don’t give up on underexposed images! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through some techniques to brighten a portrait and, to show you how easy it can be, we’ll do it in only two minutes!

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Join us as we demonstrate how to work with clients and shoot in a professional studio environment . Afterwards, we take you through Lightroom and Photoshop where you’ll learn retouching techniques like dodging and burning and blemish removal.

Photoshop  |  Photography  |  Medium  |  7.25 hours  |  21 videos

9 Sample Images  |  1 Photoshop Action  |  1 Photoshop Brush  |  1 Photoshop Gradient

Being able to cut out a person or product and place them on a plain colored background is an essential skill to have. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the process of cutting out a subject and placing them a on a pure white background.

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A portrait doesn’t need to be all clear skin and perfect hair. But whether you want to remove distractions from an everyday photo, or smooth skin until it’s flawless for a studio portrait, these 5 tools will make your life easier.

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Add volume to eyebrows in Photoshop to achieve that trendy perfect brow. Start with shaping and then create a custom brush to add hair.

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In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to create your own custom Photoshop Brush to add realistic freckles to any portrait in Photoshop!

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