Pro beauty retouching

Master skin retouching with layers, color layers, healing brush, and frequency separation to even tone, manage saturation, and preserve texture.

Copy the layer, open liquify, pull the hair down, create the mask on this layer, and save only the needed head portion for a much better forehead correction.

Learn to correct eyebrows, eyes, and lips using masks to remove colors around the eyes and preserve red tones, apply hue-saturation and frequency separation, and refine with the healing brush.

The lecture guides you to draw new hair by creating layers, applying brush pressure, adding gaussian blur, and overlaying real hair texture with clipping masks and the stamp tool.

Create facial volume with dodge and burn on a 50% gray layer set to soft light. Adjust transparency, darken parts, and make the pupils expressive, or remove the layer.

Enhance sharpness, adjust contrast with curves in lighting mode, perform color corrections with Alien Skin plugin, and apply vignette and grain to finish.

Learn how to speed up retouching with the Portraiture plugin and frequency separation, using healing brush, color blending, and masking techniques to refine skin and hair.

Apply lips corrections by adjusting the stamp settings to work on an empty layer, lightly color the lip edges on the color layer, and fix the shape of the lips.

Enhance eye expressiveness and volume with dodge and burn on a 50% gray layer, using color dodge techniques, clean whites, and mute red via hue-saturation.

Remove excess hair and adjust the face shape. Increase contrast with curves, set the blending mode to luminocity, and apply sharpening.

Master skin and lip retouching using frequency separation with precise radius, clean skin with brush and healing tools, and remove facial hairs with pen tool and warp adjustments.

Retouch lips using frequency separation, set small radius for lips, select lips contour with a pen tool, invert selection, brush on a high layer, and hide the selection.

Paint inside the lips, invert the selection to refine the contour, then recreate the selection in the path panel. Use dodge and burn to add volume and adjust lip shape.

Apply dodge and burn to add volume to the whole face and build depth. Create several 50% gray layers, adjust curves for contrast, and sharpen to remove this spot.

Apply liquify to correct nose, neck, and ears; use frequency separation with a radius around 7–12, then refine textures with brush, eraser, color layers, and history brush for final texture.

Use brush tool to redraw missing areas and paint the nose and face on a color layer, apply frequency separation for neck, add texture to high layer, and mask parts.

Learn to draw and retouch eyebrows using frequency separation, correct the shape, draw new brows with high hardness and 100% flow and opacity, then blur and add noise for realism.

Practice precise beauty retouching by using the pen tool for selections, adjusting radii, applying liquify to refine features, darkening hair and neck with curves, and adding eyelashes, blur, and noise.

Master dodge and burn and color correction techniques to sculpt facial volume, correct color with curves and hue-saturation, perform frequency separation, and blend with color dodge, soft light, and multiply.

Apply frequency separation to correct terrible makeup by choosing the radius and painting on a high layer. Create a color-blend-mode layer, saturate color, erase excess, and reveal a better look.

Improve eye realism with a 50% gray layer, dodge and burn, and a copied retouched eye using a mask and brush to adjust saturation and contrast; practice with psd files.