Master Dodge and Burn – For Beauty, Fashion, and Portrait Retouching Information

Master Dodge and Burn – For Beauty, Fashion, and Portrait Retouching is an in-depth course led by Michael Woloszynowicz from Retouching Academy, focusing on one of the most fundamental techniques in professional photo retouching: dodging and burning (D&B).

The photographers at Retouching Academy have produced some of the industry’s best work when it comes to beauty photography and retouching. Not only are their images stunning, the educational content they have produced has provided immense help to other photographers learning the industry. The last product we featured, “Studio Beauty” with Julia Kuzmenko McKim was such a big hit that we’re bringing more of their post processing techniques to Fstoppers.

In RA’s latest production, Michael Woloszynowicz dives into one of retouching’s most fundamental techniques, dodging and burning. Michael breaks down this fundamental, nondestructive process into a four section course that teaches both the theory and practical application that goes into dodging and burning an image. Here’s a little more of what this course provides.

What You’ll Learn In Master Dodge and Burn – For Beauty, Fashion, and Portrait Retouching?

Lesson 1

It’s important to understand some of the broader points of retouching an image before we dive into practical application. This lesson introduces you to the tools and settings needed throughout the course as well as the reasoning behind choosing D&B as a corrective technique.

• Underlying theory behind D&B, what is it, how it works, why it is so important, and how it compares to other techniques
• The elements of an image: Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity
• Local or Corrective D&B
• Global D&B or Contouring
• D&B vs. Other Retouching Techniques
• D&B types within your workflow
• Tools and Layers for your D&B work
• Working with Curves Adjustment Layers for Corrective D&B and Contouring
• Working with 50% Gray Layers for Corrective D&B and Contouring
• D&B as a part of your retouching workflow

Lesson 2

In this lesson, we begin to use D&B for localized correction and to refine luminosity shifts in skin to make it look perfect. We also examine how the technique can be used in combination with other tools like the Healing Brush. While we walk you through practical application of using D&B, we’ll also demonstrate some pitfalls to avoid which give your images unnatural looking results.

Lesson 3

In the third lesson we dive into the idea of contouring or global D&B.

We explore how adding accentuating highlights or shadows on certain areas of the face and body can give your subject more depth and dimension to give a more three-dimensional appearance.

This lesson starts with a completed beauty image and then moves on to completing the black and white image from lesson two.

To finish this lesson, we contour a color image to give an extra example of this technique. As well as the standard contour process, we examine the best ways to go about reshaping areas of the face using light and how to organize your layers when doing so.

Lesson 4

The final lesson will involve putting the final touches on all our images, particularly from a color standpoint.

Although our focus with D&B is to correct luminosity shifts, we still have to pay attention to color. This course doesn’t dwell on color correction techniques but it is important to be able to identify color issues and understand the most useful tools for correcting color.

We’ll explore how to use D&B to work on details such as harsh shadows, dark spots in the whites of the eye, as well as peach fuzz on the face, and deal with the resulting color problems in those areas.

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