People Retouching Masterclass Information

People Retouching Masterclass by August Dering provides a comprehensive guide to high-end portrait retouching, enabling participants to create magazine-quality work

Gain a complete knowledge of high-end portrait retouching and start creating magazine quality work of your own.

You Can Do It Too…

I will teach you. I have worked with some of the top brands and magazines in the world, I’ll teach you my complete process to achieve magazine quality results every time.

My workflow is based on more than 15 years of professional experience. I will show you everything you need to achieve natural looking portrait retouching every time. Everything is covered from advanced skin smoothing, getting perfect skin tones, reshaping, fixing hair and clothing, and much, much more.

What You’ll Learn In People Retouching Masterclass?

Introduction and Getting the Most From This Course

I share my own background in retouching and share some helpful tips to get the most from this course.

Setup

In this lesson, I explain how I set up my Photoshop workspace and some of my favorite shortcuts to dramatically speed up your retouching.

Workflow

I break down my workflow process from start to finish to create a roadmap for the rest of the course. I introduce the concepts of “Baseline Retouching” and “Creative Retouching&rd…

Raw Processing

Learn how to process your raw files to get them ready for retouching in Photoshop. I’ll teach you the most important adjustments to make sure that your files are as good as they can be before…

Image Analysis

Many people struggle with understanding what an image needs in the retouching process. I’ll share some valuable insights and techniques to evaluate your photos to easily identify what needs t…

Shape

Learn several techniques to reshape your subject without disturbing the background.

Skin Cleanup

We’ll look at the initial steps of skin cleanup and skin smoothing. Many techniques are covered including my methods of “Skin Tone Derivative Dodge & Burn” and “Split Si…

Split Size Dodge & Burn

Learn more about my technique of “Split Size Dodge & Burn” to smooth out the contours of your subject’s skin.

Skin Color

Learn several of my favorite techniques to correct color casts and skin redness, as well as some useful techniques to equalize skin tones to achieve consistent results across the entire photograph.

Eyes

The eyes are often the most important part of a portrait. Several techniques are covered to add color and pop to your subject’s eyes without making them look fake.

Teeth and Lips

Learn some great techniques to make your subject’s lips look perfect, and to correct discolored teeth.

Hair

I introduce several techniques to make the subject’s hair look amazing, including a powerful way to add dimensionality and shape.

Fixing Fabric

I’ll share a versatile and powerful way to smooth wrinkles and fix other issues with fabric, a notoriously difficult thing to do using other methods.

Finishing Touches

Put the finishing touches on the first image. Several techniques are introduced including adding extra dimensionality and shape to the subject’s skin and two of my favorite methods to add fil…

Advanced Skin Smoothing, Part 1

In the next photograph, a beauty image from a cosmetics campaign, I’ll teach you a new and powerful technique to speed up the skin smoothing workflow without sacrificing quality.

Advanced Skin Smoothing, Part 2

I introduce another technique to speed up the skin smoothing workflow with “Averaged Lightening and Darkening” using the Close Stamp tool.

Advanced Skin Smoothing, Part 3

Learn how to combine all of the skin smoothing techniques covered so far to achieve perfect results.

Eyes, Lips, and Hair

Review the techniques covered so far and learn some new techniques to make the eyes, lips, and hair look their best.

Creative Retouching

I’ll teach you several techniques to achieve a more harmonious color relationship between subject and background as well as techniques to bring dimensionality and texture to the beauty image.

Fixing Challenging Skin Problems, Part 1

On the next image, this time from a swimsuit campaign, learn my exclusive “Isolated Dust & Scratches” method of fixing challenging skin problems like goosebumps.

Fixing Challenging Skin Problems, Part 2

Learn additional techniques to correct the subject’s goosebumps and fix other skin related issues.

Another Technique for Skin Smoothing

I’ll give you another exclusive technique, the often useful “High Radius Dust & Scratches”, to speed up the skin smoothing on several parts of the model’s skin.

Skin Texture

Learn how to create a layer of paintable texture to ensure that the skin texture is perfect across the entire photograph.

Retouching Men and Correcting Distortion

Learn how to selectively correct perspective distortion on a close-up portrait. I’ll teach you some of my favorite techniques for dramatic color and contrast changes.

Creative Retouching – New Tools for Contrast

In this lesson, you’ll learn a new technique to adjust contrast and more great techniques for creative retouching.

Creative Retouching – B&W Conversion

In this lesson, I’ll teach you a powerful technique to achieve a richly toned black and white portrait.

Reversing the Signs of Aging, Part 1

Review some of the techniques covered so far, and learn how to dramatically reverse the signs of aging. And I will introduce some new steps to speed up your workflow.

Reversing the Signs of Aging, Part 2

We continue with the portrait of the artist, and learn some new techniques to reverse the signs of aging and adjust color and contrast. I explain the concept of “fresh eyes” which is a …

Conclusion

I’ll recap everything I’ve covered in this course. I hope you enjoyed it!

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