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From wedding portraits, to online storefronts, to the cover of your favorite fashion magazine, retouching skills can take your work wherever you want it to go.
Retouching is the art and craft of removing distractions from an image so that the main subject grabs the viewer’s attention while looking their absolute best. Throughout this Learning Path you will learn how to remove blemishes, clean up backgrounds, balance highlights and shadows, and much more!
Essentials Retouching Skills
Intro to Retouching in Photoshop
Before we dive into individual techniques, let’s cover the basic principles, tools, and workflow for professional retouching.
9 Hours | Easy
How to Master Sharpening in Photoshop
Most of the time looking sharp is synonymous with looking good. Learn the art of sharpening in Photoshop to bring out details and draw attention to the areas that matter most.
3 Hours | Easy
How to Master Dodging & Burning in Photoshop
The easiest way to describe dodging and burning is to say it’s like painting with light. Sound cool? It is. Learn all about this powerful and versatile skill that can enhance any image.
5 Hours | Medium
How to Correct Exposure in Photoshop
Balance out highlights and shadows, recover lost details, and draw more attention to your subjects. Exposure is as powerful a tool in post-production as it is when you’re capturing images in camera.
1 Hour | Medium
Retouching Features, Fabric & Materials
Master Retouching Eyes
If you work with portraits and are only going to learn how to make one feature stand out, make it the eyes. Learn how to enhance colors, add definition, and draw more attention to our most striking feature.
3 Hours | Medium
Master Retouching Hair
It’s soft, full of fine details, and it gets everywhere. Hair might be the most challenging feature to retouch in a portrait. Add shape, clean up flyaways, and make this once seemingly-impossible process easier than ever.
4 Hours | Medium
How to Retouch Clothing & Fabric
The only way to master compositing is to practice! Once again we create a sci-fi world using only free stock photos and our Photoshop savvy.
3 Hours | Medium
Product Retouching for E-Commerce
Retouching involved more than just making people look their best. Learn how to take 2D product images and give them texture, depth, and definition for selling on the web.
5 Hours | Medium
Advanced Techniques & Applications
How to Master Frequency Separation Retouching
Master this essential skill for professional retouching. This is the absolute best way to achieve perfect textures and smooth transitions between highlight and shadow.
7 Hours | Advanced
Professional Beauty Retouching
Put your new skills to use as you retouch multiple professionally photographed RAW images from start to finish. Get advance practice with exposure adjustments, dodging and burning, frequency separation, and more.
4 Hours | Advanced
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This Learning Path is amazing. I learned so many things. ty very much 🙂 But the link of Professional Beauty Retouching is missing. He sends to How to Master Frequency Separation Retouching.