Photoshop Retouching

Two Days

This two day course concentrates on developing professional face and body retouching techniques in Photoshop. 

The course has been specifically designed for anyone working in a professional capacity in the fashion, glamour or advertising industries. 

The course is also ideal for anyone working for model agencies or professional portrait photographers.

• Developing a retouching strategy
  • Ascertaining the level of retouching required
  • Completing or understanding a Retouch Request form
  • •Marking up a Face Retouch image
  • Marking up a Body Retouch image
  • Developing a retouching workflow and panning witin the document
• Correcting tone, exposure and colour
  • Working with RAW files
  • Adopting a non-destructive approach to editing
  • Correcting exposure problems
  • Correcting tone problems
  • Correcting colour problems
• Retouching faces
  • Removing distracting elements and backgrounds
  • Lessening facial blemishes
  • Softening lines
  • Smoothing skin tone
  • Accentuating the inner eye - whites, pupils and the iris
  • Enhancing catchlights • Reshaping eyes
  • Cleaning eyebrows • Building eye lashes
  • Enhancing makeup
  • Building lips and removing lines
  • Removing dark roots
  • Adding hair highlights and lowlights
  • Soft focus portrait effects
• Retouching bodies
  • Lessening lumps, bumps and skin folds
  • Removing scars, veins and tattoos
  • Healing blemishes
  • Slimming contours
  • Evening out skin tone
  • Adding the perfect tan