Photoshop Retouching Masterclass

This video will help you to understand the biggest hardware differences and what kind of hardware you should use to be flexible and professional in your work to achieve the best possible results.
We will talk about using a tablet or a mouse and what's the difference between using one or the other and which is most suitable for professional photoshop retouching workflow.

You'll find out what kind of tablet I'm using and why, is there any particular company I suggest you use, how big the tablet should be, and more.
The information in this video will help you decide whether you need a tablet or not, what kind of results you may expect, and most importantly do you need a tablet or a mouse to achieve amazing results with Adobe Photoshop.

In this section of the course, you will understand what is the difference between "Opacity" and "Flow", options in Adobe Photoshop, how to use them in the portrait retouching process, and which settings I use and why. These are quite subtle and important elements but sometimes they are underrated by beginners.
After you watch this video you will know which settings to use and how to manage them to reduce your time working on an image by half, which will make your work more efficient and effective.

We always want high-quality images to showcase our work in the best possible way, for this reason, we will take at the differences between 8-bit and 16-bit files and talk about the things we should have in mind when working with high-quality images and retouching portrait photography or beauty photography images using Adobe Photoshop.

Completing this lecture you will understand the difference between images' bit depth and you will get to know where, when, and why it's so important for the main retouching process to make your work look its best.
You will also learn how to use these settings to improve your work and make it easier for you.

Using Adobe Photoshop for portrait retouching or beauty retouching you can use many different retouching techniques.
But some of them are not that good as the others.

After watching this video you will get a solid understanding of the non-destructive process called "Dodge and Burn" and I will take you through some of the most common and misleading methods of using this technique in Adobe Photoshop for skin retouching.
I will break the myths related to this process and in the end, you will know what makes this technique so powerful and important in the professional retouching workflow. You will know how to use it on any work using my workflow and deal with any problems in your images.

This section of the Photoshop Retouching Masterclass will show you several methods of using "Dodge and Burn" techniques and we will compare them to see which one can give you professional-looking results.
You will see which method I use and why. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to implement this in your work to be more flexible and achieve greater results with your portrait photography or beauty photography using Adobe Photoshop.

You will get a great understanding of the common terminology to avoid confusion and difficulties when using Adobe Photoshop for editing your portrait photography or beauty images.
At the end of this lecture you will know the main groups of the non-destructive process of retouching skin and why we use them and how do they help us in the retouching process.
We will take a look and talk about the intricacies of using this technique, which you will see in detail, and its use later on in this Adobe Photoshop skin retouching course.

In this lecture, I will share with you the things you should look for when opening an image in your Photoshop workspace.
We will take a look at the guidelines and the considerations and mark everything we should have in mind when we start working on our images using Adobe Photoshop. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to create a strictly organized working environment and prepare your work for the full skin retouching on portrait or beauty images with Adobe Photoshop.

You will see a new way of using Frequency Separation - one of the most used techniques when retouching portrait photography or beauty images using Adobe Photoshop for professional skin retouching.
The old method of using this technique has some disadvantages and I will show you why, with the new innovative way of using "Frequency Separation" and you will be able to implement it in your work and be more efficient in your work, saving your time and achieving greater results with your skin retouching faster using Adobe Photoshop.

In this part of the Adobe Photoshop Retouching course, we will take a deep look and talk about this advanced method of selecting different parts of the image using only the existing light in the images.
Knowing how to use this method and using it correctly will help you create more depth in your images and create amazing looking results that you can't achieve with any automatic tool in Adobe Photoshop.
Knowing only how to create advance selections is not enough, that's why we will take a deep look at how and when to use them and what kind of results we may expect of using this skin retouching technique in your professional retouching workflow for portrait photography or beauty images using Adobe Photoshop.

Before we dive deep into the full advanced Adobe Photoshop skin retouching techniques for portrait photography and beauty images we will prepare our raw images for the full retouching process.
This preparation process includes very important steps - working and using RAW processing software, to be able to get the maximum of your RAW files, because every software "reads" the information differently.
After watching this lecture you will know which RAW processing software I use and recommend and why then we will jump right in Adobe Photoshop for the full advanced skin retouching process.

In this part of the course, we will focus on the problematic areas of the photo and mark the corrections we want to make to enhance the image so we can prepare it for the real full advanced skin retouching in Adobe Photoshop. At the end of this video, you will be able to notice the details which will make the image look authentic and mark for removal of everything that distracts the viewer's gaze. This is the last step before the full advanced skin retouching so we need to pay special attention to this step.

In this section, you will see the complete process of full advanced skin retouching from start to finish and everything we have learned so far and implement it in the retouching workflow of the natural-looking Classical Portrait.
At the end of this lecture, you will be able to implement this advanced skin retouching workflow in your work and enhance your portrait photography as professionals retouchers do, everything consistent with the Global Quality Standards of Adobe Photoshop retouching and image editing.

In this section, you will see the complete process of full advanced skin retouching from start to finish and everything we have learned so far and implement it in the retouching workflow of an Artistic Beauty Image.
You will see different advanced techniques of creating and simulating the existing skin texture, color correct some parts of the image, and much more using Adobe Photoshop.

In this lecture, you will see and understand my way of creating black and white images with contrast that you can't achieve with any automatic tool built into Adobe Photoshop.
You will see how I use this method for every image I want to achieve stunning black and white photography effect, and later you will be able to implement this in your portrait photography or beauty photography using Adobe Photoshop.