High End Photo Retouching Tutorial with Frequency Separation

Name: High End Photo Retouching Tutorial with Frequency Separation
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Learn how to retouch high end pictures using tools like frequency separation, dodge and burn, curve tool, and more

Created byMichael Adeleye

Last updated 2/2022

English

What you'll learn

How to remove blemishes or spots using photoshop
Simplified Frequency Separation Process
How to Increase Color Contrast Using Curve Tool
Introduction to Liquify
How to use dodge and burn to enhance impact of light on model's face
How to colour grade picture using photoshop

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 31m total length

Introduction1:36
Welcome to the course introduction. Before you go ahead, kindly download the attached resource in order to follow through the entire course.
How to remove spots or blemishes on model's face using Adobe Photoshop4:18
In lecture 2, we will be preparing our file for frequency separation but the first thing we need to do is to remove distracting spots on the model's face. I would personally suggest that you only remove temporary spots most of the time.
Improving Contrast using curve tool3:58
In the lecture, you will learn how to use the curve tool to enhance contrast and for the scope of this lecture we will be using the curve tool to increase the colour contrast of our model's face and lips
Frequency Separation8:04
This lecture covers the process of frequency separation, What we are trying to do here is to convert one photograph to two layers, the skin tone and texture.

The skin tone layer store the model's skin tone data while the texture later stores the texture data.
Introduction to Liquify tool in Photoshop2:22
How to use Dodge and Burn tool to reshape impact of light on face5:43
Dodge and Burn is one of the most technical and finest retouching tools in photoshop. In this lecture, I will introduce you to how to use dodge and burn to sculpture the impact and relative intensity of light on our model's face
Introduction to colour grading in Photoshop4:39
Colour grading is the process of creating a custom look and tone. There are different ways of adding a particular tone to your image or video. in this tutorial, you will get used to the colour-grading tools in Photoshop and we will use the tool to improve the overall look of our model.
final note0:46

Requirements

Little or no knowledge of Adobe Photoshop is required

Description

Hi and welcome to my photo retouching tutorial, in this tutorial you will learn how to retouch any picture in photoshop.

If you follow through the tutorial you will acquire some skills like

Frequency separation in a more simplified way,
How to use liquify to correct imperfect shapes, and
How to improve the contrast of the eye shadows and lips using curve tool, also
We will be using the dodge and burn tool to reshape the light impact on the face of the model and lastly,
We will use the colour grading tool to improve the overall skin tone.

To follow this tutorial step by step, I have attached a download link to the file I used. Kindly download the file and if you have your own high-quality picture, you can still follow along.

For the scope of this tutorial, I will like to emphasize a few points you should keep in mind

Skin texture: Skin texture is really key and if care is not taken you will lose the skin texture during frequency separation so this is my rule of thumb. Moderation is golden. Don’t go over the limit and make it simple.

If you want to be better at it, get your hands dirty. The more images you try to retouch, the better you will become. Remember practice makes perfect.

Train your eyes to see colours, shapes, tones, symmetry, depths and more. If you can see it you can create it.

Who this course is for:

Beginner photographer
Beginner photo retoucher
intermediate photographer
Anyone who wants to learn photography
Anyone who wants to learn how to retouch using frequency separation