
Explore practical color use in Photoshop to express emotion and create drama, from image cleaning to color grading across natural light and studio photography.
Explore advanced color grading in Photoshop using high quality raw images from photographers Skeat, Zosia Zavada, and Bostic Cermak; practice outdoor portrait and street fashion photography with standout colors.
Apply practical color harmony in Photoshop by using complementary, analogical, and triadic color schemes to enhance mood, skin tones, and image composition across real projects.
Explore raw image processing in camera raw, starting with basic panel adjustments like white balance, exposure, shadows and highlights, and color controls to shape natural light portraits.
Master camera raw processing basics by balancing highlights and shadows, preserving natural colors, and performing cleanup. Experiment with warm oranges and complementary color tweaks to make the subject pop.
Explore Capture One raw processing for precise color control, including advanced color editor, highlights and shadows, and skin-tone adjustments, tailored for fashion and beauty retouching workflows.
Clean up the image by removing spots with healing brush and clone stamp on a non-destructive layer, then dodge and burn to refine skin texture and ensure natural results.
Apply dodge and burn to brighten shadows and darken highlights for even skin tone. Use curves, masking, and a separation layer to visualize and refine the adjustments.
Master advanced color grading by building selective contrasts with dual curve adjustments, highlights and shadows, using luminosity blending and layer masks for precise light control.
Apply color balance techniques in Photoshop to fine-tune shadows and highlights using masks, hue, and saturation, balancing orange skin tones with blue backgrounds for refined color grading.
Set up a color theme for images in Photoshop using a solid color close to the skin tone at 10–15 percent opacity or selective color grading for warm shadows.
Master how curves and primary/secondary colors influence color grading in Photoshop, manipulating shadows, highlights, and masks, with gray map and selective color for nuanced harmonies.
Apply final touches with a non-destructive stamp workflow by converting the layer to a smart object, then adjust highlights, shadows, and hue/saturation to push yellows toward oranges.
Learn to process studio fashion and beauty images in Capture One, recover detail from raw files, adjust highlights, shadows, and color with blue or cyan tones, then refine in Photoshop.
Learn to clean up a messy background in Photoshop using healing brush, curves, and stamping techniques, then blend blur and masking for a natural, smooth backdrop.
apply dodge and burn using two layers, invert them, and adjust color to boost contrast and reveal micro transitions in a high-resolution fashion image.
Improve contrasts by selectively enhancing highlights and shadows using color range selections and curve adjustment layers, adjusting fuzziness and range to achieve a more dynamic, natural look.
Balance studio fashion imagery by using two color balance layers to tune shadows and highlights, with selective masking and blue-shifted shadows and yellow-tinted highlights for a smooth, color-balanced result.
Learn to adjust shadows and highlights with color range, filter changes, and layer masks. Apply warm orange tones to create distinct highlight and shadow colors.
Master color grading with selective color adjustments to correct blues, yellows, and face tones, using color range and highlight targeting to balance image tones.
Learn to fix saturation and color shifts in Photoshop by masking and painting on masks, separating blue shadows, and applying targeted hue/saturation to match skin, hair, and feet.
Master advanced color grading in Photoshop with final Camera Raw adjustments, stamp creation, and Smart Object conversion, then fine-tune hue, saturation, and contrast to satisfy customer wishes.
Master the raw processing of an outdoor fashion image by tweaking color balance and color harmony, prioritizing reds, purples, and yellows with blue accents to suit street fashion in Photoshop.
Master advanced color grading for outdoor fashion images by refining RAW processing, skin tone tuning, and selective color adjustments in Photoshop to achieve natural, vibrant results.
Apply fashion image color grading in Photoshop by using smart objects to target adjustments, mask backgrounds, and balance hues with saturation, grayscale, and split tuning to match Capture One results.
Explore how to create dramatic fashion imagery by adjusting highlights and shadows with color range and curves in Photoshop, using masks and groups for refined contrast.
Apply color balance to match a reference image by adjusting shadows, midtones, and highlights with purple, magenta, and blue tones, while avoiding green tints for consistent color grading in Photoshop.
Explore masks to shape shadows and highlights with color, creating a vintage matte look and creamy tones for street fashion visuals in Photoshop.
Refine final touches in Photoshop by boosting contrast with curves, balance highlights, and apply hue and saturation tweaks, then add noise via a 50% gray layer.
Apply advanced color grading in Photoshop by selecting garment colors with color range, refining with selective color, deepening blues and magentas, and using curves for contrast.
Master advanced color grading in Photoshop and improve your color understanding and retouching through analysis of before-and-after results and guidance from high-quality fashion imagery and art.
Explore luminosity masks in Photoshop, learn how to create perfect luminosity masks, and use curves and adjustment layers to control highlights, shadows, and color with selective masking.
Learn to create luminosity masks in Photoshop using curves on the RGB channels to isolate highlights and shadows, then refine with mid-tones for precise color grading.
Create luminosity masks to control highlights and shadows in Photoshop, using manual techniques with selective color ranges and careful fuzziness for smooth transitions and refined color grading.
Create luminosity masks from image channels, using the blue channel to make selections and curves to sculpt highlights, shadows, and midtones with adjustment layers.
Master advanced color grading by refining contrasts with luminosity masks, using curves on highlights and shadows, and blending with luminosity mode to preserve saturation while shaping color-range masks.
Apply color balance to highlights, shadows, and midtones using channel-based methods. Use masks and adjustment layers to control warm and cool hues without affecting unintended areas.
Learn practical color fixing in Photoshop by using selective color to adjust blues, blacks, and yellows, while masking hair and background, then refine with curves and color range.
Master color grading in Photoshop using Camera Raw filter to adjust shadows, highlights, contrast, clarity, and hue and saturation; create a nondestructive smart object stamp and add noise for final touch.
What is color? If someone would've ask You that question what would You say? How You describe to person how red looks like, or how blue feels. We cannot really explain colors without describing them by the name, but we are able to express them through the stories.
In this course I am going to have deeper look on how color affects the images, and how we can build all atmosphere of the image by working with color. The process of enhancing and and processing the color is called Color Grading.
I have to agree that every part of retouching is important for the image, although color is the one which has biggest impact on the final outcome and on how Your images will be percieved.
Why color are so important in photography?
Remember that images are not only the frame from peoples life. Images tell tell the stories, And colors are it’s content. You want people feel when they look at the images, You want to show them what You feel through the image, no matter if You are photographer or retoucher as I am.
To me, as a retoucher colors are most important part of the image and information behind them. It is also my favourtitte part of my work. Working with reds to show strong emotions, going with pink to Make it soft, or Working with blue colors to make it comfotable for our eyes.
This is what I am teaching You. Why this course is so special? Because I am not going to talk only about theory, but mostly we are going to work on real examples, on work that was published, so You know it is not some ametour experiment.
I cover few different subjects in Photography, outdoor photography, Studio fashion and Beauty as well as Street fashion Photography. So You know this course is for You.
What You will find in this course:
1. In the first part of the course we will be working on natural light photography - one of the most popular photography in recent years.
- I will make sure you will know how to process your raw images, no matter if you will use adobe camera raw, or capture one software.
- I will show You how to clean up portrait images including dodge & burn process.
- I will teach you how to do color grading using most effective adjustement layers, as well as other techniques to let you choose your own way of retouching.
- I will teach you how to choose color theme for your image that most suit certein kind of photography.
2. In the next part we will jump into studio fashion and beauty images.
- I will teach you more techniques on general retouching including cleaning up process as well as working with contrasts on advanced level.
- You will learn how to grade images selectively on shadows and highlights, as well as how to work with images with complementary color harmony.
- You will learn how to correct colors of the image, how to take down certain color off your image as well how to fix color and stauration shifts.
- I will show You how to do final touch ups for your image in camera raw, to make them look perfect.
3. In the last part of the course we will do something much more creative. We are going to work on street fashion images with different color palettes.
- I will show you the way to process such an raw images.
- You will learn how to work selectivaly with each color no matter which part of the image you want to work with, sky, clothes, hair. You will know how to improve each color.
- You will learn how to work with the images from the same set. How to make their colors have one main theme.
- Including with final touch ups I will teach you simple trick that allows you to break off strong color transitions.
Marcin