The Ultimate Guide to Retouching

Hey Aaron, great tutorial, but why don’t you just open the 16-bit raw files directly from Lr into Ps, but manually export to TIFF and then re-import the latter into Lr? Is there any point in doing so?

Mr. Aaron Nace.. You are the best retoucher in the planet.. because this is the best and amazing retouching tutorials.. actually this is useful one every Photographers and Photo Editors.. I wish you to successful life.. and release again like this tutorials.. one thing I have a request to you.. I wanna to learn “How to edit, retouch, and paint damaged, unclear, scrach and old black and white photos” like this ultimate guide.. please I think you will accept my this requeasting.. I am waiting that.. Thank You very much Aaron nace..

Very Good Tutorial! A couple of the techniques were very useful for a current project I had going at the time…thank you. This is the first tutorial of Aaron’s I’ve gone through and really enjoyed it and would definitely recommend it. Teaching style was great – very approachable.
Constructive criticism — some uses of the techniques shown seem a bit heavy handed in my opinion and may lead people to do the same. Ie; pushing the mouth and nose too freely on a portrait which basically changes the character of a persons bone structure. – better in my opinion to use tonal changes along the edges forms to be more subtle about “improving” features etc. and keep the liquifying on a face to a very minimum. This is all subjective of course and is probably good to get the point of a technique across, but unless we are doing an illustration, fashion or otherwise, I believe we have an obligation to portray people as they are while still doing our work of idealizing and cleaning up images.
Look forward to going through other tutorials I’ve already downloaded.

It did wonders for some of my other work already in the first week.
If you think you already know frequency separation, and you’re all ‘Yada-yada” about it, you’re just missing out. This isn’t basic. The things that are taught here are not intuitive. You’re simply NOT going to figure them out on your own. I’ve watched a lot of Photoshop videos. I’ve watched a ton of Phlearn videos before buying this. All you need to do is go look at a bunch of other Youtube videos for the same technique that Aaron teaches, and you’ll be saying to yourself, “Uh, that’s not iiiiiiiit.” Don’t learn halfway techniques. Aaron simply does it better, and does a better job of making it completely logical.

Week one out of the course was a success.
I had a wedding that I found out from the groom (a meteorologist, actually) that it was going to pour down rain, ALL DAY, and after I dug myself out of the fetal position an hour later, I devised a plan to make a glamour shoot with some arctic white paper, softboxes, and flashes. I HAD to give the bride something that worked well. Then I bought this course, and during the week of the Honeymoon, I cranked the whole course. I was bound and determined to make sure that a downpour wedding wasn’t a dud.
Popped the bride pics. Hit the skin right. Colored it up nicely. She was excited.
She understood that there was no way to get the verdant look in a rainstorm. So we did what we could. And that was make a ‘fashion’ session. The pictures really, really classed up with the retouching. It made a difference.

So much fun! I loved following along and I loved learning! And this tutorial offers SO much to learn! The variety of examples that Aaron offers is a wonderful way of enhancing the tutorial. It probably took him many days & hours to shoot this but the three complete edits that he offers really add depth to the presentation. The models where beautiful of course though it might have been fun to show the method on a more textured face too, eg. faces hardened by outdoor exposure or one with many wrinkles. I’m so glad that I purchased this. I tried it on one of the other photos included in the package and I’m so happy with the result, even if it took me all day yesterday. It’s so much fun playing with Lia’s(?) hair. And Aaron is always so cheery! Even when demonstrating some of the longer processes. I’m always amazed that he can keep finding something to say during the long minutes of using the healing tools but he succeeds in keeping it interesting. This was worth every penny!

I tried on my own image, and stylized it at the end! Aaron you’re so amazing for all that you do for us!

This tutorial made me fall in love with Photoshop. It was so much easier to understand compared to some of the stuff i looked at on Lynda, which were great but too in depth for a newcomer to PS

I have purchased all the other retouching pro tutorials on phlearn. Is this tutorial additive or redundant? More specifically, should I purchase this even if I have all the other retouching tutorials?