Glamour portrait retouching before and after: a woman among palm fronds wearing a jeweled headband, the after showing enhanced contrast and polish.

Glamour Portrait Retouching

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  • Intermediatesome Photoshop basics
  • 2 Sample Images+ a brush
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In this Phlearn PRO Tutorial, you will learn how light falls on a face and 5 different glamour portrait retouching methods to enhance it. Learn expert methods of dodging, burning, skin coloring, advanced sharpening, adding realistic makeup and more.

If you are looking to master the art of retouching, you should check out Retouching 101-301 as well!

What You’ll Learn

  • Retouch skin and makeup for an editorial glamour look
  • Add depth to hair and eyes so they pop
  • Dodge, burn, and tone color for polished light

Table of Contents

Glamour Portrait Retouching
  • 01 - Complete Retouch
    2:20h

Beautiful Skin Retouching in Photoshop.

Woman surrounded by dark green tropical leaves
The same portrait after colour grading and glamour retouching, with richer greens and glossier light
AfterBefore

Retouch Makeup for a Glamour Portrait

Learn an amazing glamour portrait retouching method for makeup as well as skin. Our visual approach makes it easy to see what you are doing and doesn’t involve the clone stamp or healing brush tool.

Retouch Hair and Eyes

Add the perfect amount of depth and detail to hair and eyes to make them pop. Learn multiple techniques for enhancing color and clarity. Your glamour portrait retouching subjects will look better than ever.

Glamorous Skin

Learn how to retouch skin in a way that will add life as well as match different skin tones. Make skin glow from within by paying special attention to certain colors and understanding how light passes through the skin.

Tone Your Color

Learn how to color tone a glamour portrait to create a more cohesive, artistic feel. We show you how to color small areas of the photo, like this rose, drawing attention and adding style.

Glamour portrait retouching – editorial style portraits
Featured Technique

Glamour Portrait Retouching

This tutorial is perfect for anyone looking to produce editorial style portraits.

Glamour portrait – color correction example

Color Correction

Remove the complexities from correcting colors in shadows, mid-tones and highlights. At times, highlights are too warm or too saturated and need to be treated separately from other areas of an image. Learn how to correct color in glamour portrait retouching and restrict your changes to specific areas.

Dodge and Burn in Glamour Portrait Retouching

Learn how to expertly dodge and burn to draw attention to your subject using multiple layers. Alter the highlights and shadows to create extra details in specific areas. Use what you learn to add style and interest to any image.

Custom Photoshop Brushes

Create your own Photoshop brushes so you’ll always have the right brush for the job. Custom brushes are excellent for glamour portrait retouching and adding special effects to your images.

What Sets Glamour Portrait Retouching Apart

Glamour portrait retouching goes a step past a natural clean-up. The goal is editorial polish: skin that glows, eyes and hair with extra depth, makeup that reads clearly on camera, and color that feels styled rather than corrected. This tutorial works on one portrait from start to finish so you can see how each of the five lighting methods stacks on the last, and how far to push the look before it stops looking like the person in front of the lens.

Aaron Nace, founder of PHLEARN

Class Instructor

Aaron Nace

PHLEARN Founder & Lead Instructor

Aaron Nace is a photographer, digital artist, and the founder of PHLEARN. He has been teaching Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography since 2011, and has taught at Adobe MAX for more than eight years.

Aaron publishes a free tutorial every week and a new in-depth PRO course every month.

  • 2M+YouTube subscribers
  • 160M+video views
  • 1,000+tutorials published
  • 15years teaching Photoshop

Reviews

  1. Aaron is one of the best digital artists of our time! That is proven. Last days I had more free time to spend and decided to watch this tutorial. Old version of photoshop tutorial, old version of Aaron as educator. Congratulations for the growth, Aaron! You have improved yourself quite a bit during the last years. This is not only technical aprovement. You are more more confident with your speech today. Superb work at all ! “You know…” šŸ˜‰ Best regards!

  2. youre always cool

  3. Probably the best video if you truly want to dodge and burn with more control than ever!!!

  4. 8 hours in PS, back me my monday Aaron šŸ˜€ Big thanks for your work!

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