Adobe Photoshop Beauty Retouching for Beginners

Name: Adobe Photoshop Beauty Retouching for Beginners
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Quick, simple and effective techniques of editing portraits in Photoshop: do your best and achieve incredible results!

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Created byDiana Kot

Last updated 2/2016

English

What you'll learn

Bring your pictures to the completely new level
Make your first steps in Commercial photography
Achieve good level of Beauty retouch skills
Modify color and lighting of your image
Learn 8 different skin correction techniques
Change body shape and facial features
Improve hairstyle, eyes and lips
Make your image more clear and sharp

Course content

12 sections • 56 lectures • 2h 39m total length

Course overview1:37

Composing a wide shot3:32
We will start with discussing some tips and common mistakes of the wide shot composition
Top half portrait1:11
Tips ans common mistakes of top half portrait
Thinking about close-up portrait composition1:11
Tips ans common mistakes of close-up portrait
Using the Crop tool3:29
We will discuss how to use Crop tool in Adobe Photoshop, and some tricks to make it even more easy.
Crop your image using Selection0:52
Alternative way to crop your image without crop tool.

Fixing light in Camera Raw4:07
We will learn how to adjust Exposure, Highlights and Shadows, Blacks and Whites in Camera Raw converter
Working with Brightness and Contrast3:03
Learn how to work with "Brightness and Contrast" panel in Photoshop
Working with Levels2:26
Learn how to use "Levels" to achieve better lighting on your picture
Working with Curves3:39
We will learn how "Curves" panel works and use in to adjust lighting

Red, Green and Blue4:01
What is RGB color model and how it works
Fixing color in Camera Raw3:54
Learn how to adjust Color temperature, use Saturation and Vibrance, and how to enhance colors with HSL panel
Correcting colors using Levels4:54
We will continue working with Levels and use this panel to adjust colors
Correcting colors using Curves2:46
Use Curves to achieve better colors
Hue and Saturation5:34
We will learn how "Hue and Saturation" panel works
Converting your picture into black and white2:34
We will learn several ways to convert your colors into black and white

Healing brush tool3:57
How to work with Spot healing brush and Healing brush tool and what is the difference
Patch tool2:01
How to work with the Patch tool and what is the difference between Patch and Healing brush
Clone stamp tool2:28
When and why you need to work with Clone stamp tool
Brush technique2:15
Learn how to improve skin color quickly using only Brush tool
Quick skin correction using Gaussian blur5:17
We will discuss how to correct skin using Gaussian blur filter
Quick skin correction using Surface blur4:11
We will discuss how to correct skin using Surface blur filter
Quick skin correction using High pass2:17
We will discuss how to correct skin using High pass and Gaussian blur filters combination
Frequency separation technique2:30
In this lecture we will prepare our image for the most powerfull technique
Working with skin color in Frequency separation technique2:40
Learn how to correct skin color and remove spots in Frequency separation technique
Working with skin texture in Frequency separation technique2:52
Learn how to achieve better skin texture using Frequency separation technique

Removing small hairs1:50
How to remove all small excessive hairs from your hairstyle
Filling gaps in hairstyle2:30
How to remove hairstyle gaps using Clone stamp tool
Changing your hairstyle2:01
How to achieve better hairstyle
Changing hair color3:47
We will discuss first method of picture recoloring and use it to change hair color
Improving eyebrows5:50
Learn how to give your eyebrows much better look
Improving eyelashes2:10
Learn how to improve it without effect of fake eyelushes

Whitening teeth using Hue and Saturation panel1:15
Quick and effective method to whiten teeth using "Hue and Saturation" panel
Whitening teeth using Brush0:50
How to whiten teeth using Brush and Soft light blending mode
Making teeth straight1:56
We will use Liquify panel (more details about panel in Lecture 43) to make teeth straight and Clone stamp tool to fill gaps between them
Shining lips2:37
How to add additional glance to your lips
Recoloring lips2:47
We will discuss third method to recolor your image and use it for lips

Quickest method of losing weight1:56
How to make person thinner just in one click
Liquify workflow2:34
Learn amazing power of Liquify panel!
Making eyes bigger2:23
Two quick techniques to enlarge person's eyes
Making nose smaller1:31
How to make nose smaller using Warp tool
Removing body folds2:11
How to solve this common problem with body folds using Liquify panel and Clone stamp tool
Puppet warp tool2:37
Learn another amazing tool for body shape correction

Improving image in Camera Raw2:55
Use Camera Raw converter for quick and effective result
Reducing noise in Adobe Photoshop1:14
Learn how to use "Reduce noise" filter
Clean background1:59
Achieve clean background on your picture using Median noise filter
Unsharp mask filter2:11
Make your image more clear using Unsharp mask filter
Sharpening image using High Pass1:32
Learn quick and effective technique of image sharpening using High Pass filter

Requirements

I created this course in Adobe Photoshop CC but earlier versions CS5, CS4, CS3 will also work great

Description

Join 4900++ students and start learning amazing world of Beauty retouching!

Latest: New bonus lecture added! Learn Dodge and Burn technique!

This course is designed to give you all necessary tips and tools to start making great portraits retouching. You may be completely beginner in Adobe Photoshop – we will discuss all tools and commands you need to know without any excessive information. If you are already familiar with Photoshop, but you are not sure how to use it to retouch portraits, this course will give you all clues you need.

You may watch the entire course step by step, or you may watch lectures in any order. I built this course so that you can watch lectures independently from each other, starting with those you need the most. You may quickly return to any lecture in case you forgot something and would like to refresh it in your memory.

After you finish this course you will be able to retouch portraits in Photoshop and start selling your photos to your clients. Don’t forget to do a lot of practice and master your skills. There will be still a lot to learn. This course does not cover more advanced topics. But it is better to get information gradually. Once you achieve the best result with techniques I gave you, you will be ready to move on, and we will continue this wonderful journey of beauty retouch with more advanced course.

Who this course is for:

Beginner Photographers
Beginner Retouchers
If you have very little experience in Adobe Photoshop
If you are already familiar with Adobe Photoshop but have no experience in Beauty retouching

Adobe Photoshop Beauty Retouching for Beginners

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Cropping pictures5 lectures • 10min

Working with light4 lectures • 13min

Working with colors6 lectures • 24min

Skin correction10 lectures • 30min

Working with hairs6 lectures • 18min

Creating beautiful eyes4 lectures • 7min

Creating beautiful smile5 lectures • 9min

Plastic surgery in Adobe Photoshop6 lectures • 13min

Sharpening image and removing noise5 lectures • 10min

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