Melan Cholia Photography/Retouch portraits like a pro - Photoshop editing course

  • $138 or 2 monthly payments of $69

Retouch portraits like a pro - Photoshop editing course

  • Course
  • 18 Lessons

This course is in English language. Take your editing/retouching skills to the next level! This is a 9 Chapter Tutorial/Course which covers the following areas (348 mins or 5,8 hours of amazing content in theory and practicing + my high quality raw files for your portfolio and practicing worth $50 alone):

Contents

1 Module - raw file preparation

In this module you will learn what a good retouching for a beauty portrait actually means and see some good and bad examples of retouching. After the theoretical part we will directly go to Photoshop and learn how to prepare our raw file for editing.

RAW files - images for practice
1. What is a good retouching result?
RAW file preparation using Camera Raw and restoring image symmetry
How to work with lesson notebook and to submit homework
Course notes beauty 2.0 by MelanCholiaPhotography.pdf

2 Module - raw file analysis and texture

In this module we will talk about the texture of the skin and which actions are required in order not to loose the texture.

How to create amazing skin texture?
Let's analyse the raw files first!

3 Module - fast skin retouching with Frequency Separation

In this module you will learn how to use frequency separation correctly to retain skin texture. This method allows to retouch skin quite fast without loosing too much texture.

This technique is perfect if you want to get first amazing results quite fast. But if you want to bring out the most of the skin texture you definitely need to go to the next module and learn the method dodge and burn.

Skin retouching with a fast method (frequency separation done correctly).
How to use frequency separation if contrasts are high

4 Module - high end skin retouching with dodge and burn.

There are many videos and tutorials about this method on the web. For me, it was always difficult to speed up dodge and burn in order to save time. Before I discovered my small life hack in dodge and burn it took me about 2-4 hours to retouch skin with dodge and burn. With my life hack you can speed up the time for skin retouching to 20-40 minutes!

Skin retouching retaining most of the texture using dodge and burn
Dodging and burning on a high contrast image

5 Module

Speed up skin retouching while retaining the texture using a combination of DB and FS

6 Module - digital makeup

Here you will learn how to create amazingly looking lips, brows, eyeliner and eye shadows.

Learn to retouch makeup and create digital makeup

7 Module - texture and contrasts

How to bring out the skin texture even more using my personal method
Working with contrasts and texture on the image with high contrasts

8 Module - crop and export without loosing quality and texture

How to crop and export your image for social media without loosing quality and sharpness

9 Module - retouching from start to the end on another image

Full retouching process from the start to the end on another (3rd image)

General information:

All lessons are available instantly as video records. The lessons are hosted on this website (podia) and can be watched whenever you want. You have access to all materials (raw files, notebook and video lessons) for 6 months.

If you purchase this course with payment plan: please be aware that you can't cancel your subscription after the purchase! Since this is a digital product and you get an immediate access to all materials after the first payment, the right of refund disappears.

If required you can prolongate your access for another 3 months for an additional fee of $20.

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