Affinity Photo: Portrait Retouching Essentials

This course will teach you how to retouch photos in Affinity Photo. You will learn how to use Affinity Photo for professional photo retouching and master portrait retouching by the end of this course.

After learning photo retouching from this course you will also be able to take your own retouching projects and make money.

You do not need any previous knowledge of photo retouching or photo editing. You only need to have a very basic knowledge of Affinity Photo.

In this course, we will learn the process of removing all flaws from a photograph, which commonly entails color and tone correction, the removal of blemishes and under-eye circles, as well as changes to brightness, contrast, and saturation. Apart from that, we will learn many more things.

I have divided this course into different sections so that you can learn everything about photo retouching in Affinity Photo.

These sections are as following

• How to Prepare Photo for Retouching

• Face Reshaping

  Introduction to Liquifying Tool and reshaping the face

  
  

• Removing Face Blemishes

  Healing with different tools

  Working with skin texture

  
  

• Frequency Separation

  
  

• Dodge and Burn

  
  

• Hair Retouching

  Selecting Hair

  Using Frequency Separation on hair

  Hair Retouching

  Dodge and Burn on hair

  
  

• Eye Retouching

  Healing

  Changing Eye Color

  Dodge and Burn on eyes

  
  

• Final Adjustments

  Adjusting Color

  Adjusting Contrast and Brightness

  Sharpening

  
  

We will also learn to use Layers, Filters, Adjustment Layers, Layer Masks, and other tools used for photo retouching in Affinity Photo.

Let's start!