How to retouch Portraits in Photoshop

The Photoshop Series - Portraits

Learn fantastic techniques for creating beautiful, natural portraits in Photoshop, suitable for Intermediate/Advanced users. The Photoshop Series for Portraits is a step by step guide to editing and finishing off portraits in Photoshop. Step by step video tutorials on how to do everything from basic clean up, common fixes, recolouring, re toning, extractions and basic composites. All by award-winning photographer and digital artist Julie Powell. Suitable for intermediate and more advanced Photoshop user, who have a basic understanding of layers, masks and tools in Photoshop.

This course is a complete look at creating beautiful fantasy Portraits in Photoshop, with Ten Modules covering all aspects of portraits from basic cleanup to re-touching, augmentation, recolouring, creative effects, basic composites, and so much more. Learn to truly harness the power of Photoshop for Portraits from start to finish with award-winning photographer and digital artist, Julie Powell.

  • Create stunning images and make your photos pop

  • Retouch your photos like a pro, quickly and subtly to enhance the beauty of your images

  • Remove unwanted objects, lines, wrinkles and blemishes

  • Learn Skin Re-touching, tattoo and piercing removal, warp, Liquify and more

  • Basic extractions and composites, add material, adjust clothing, recolouring and more

  • Self Paced, online with in-depth video content

Why do this class?

  • YOU’RE ready to take your portraits to the next level

  • You’ve got the basics covered in Photoshop, but want to learn more

  • You’re ready to learn how to speed up your process with Actions and more

  • Do you wish to learn how to make creative fantasy Portraits from a Pro?

If your answers are yes, to any of these…then this class might just be for YOU.

Class synopsis

  • Module one - Basic clean-up, spot healing, clone stamp, patch, dodge & burn

  • Module two - Matching uneven skin tones, removing piercings, removing tattoos

  • Module three - adjusting or recolouring hair, makeup and clothes, replacing colour, whitening teeth, fixing makeup

  • Module four - Liquify and warp, fix body parts, fix hair, fix clothes, using the face tool

  • Module five - Skin re-touching, two different methods

  • Module six - Dodge and burn - two different methods

  • Module seven - making eyes pop, adding or softening catchlights, recolouring eyes, fixing eyelashes, fixing eyebrows

  • Module eight - getting creative, making pixie ears, making pixie eyebrows, adding texture, creative overlays, adding a painterly look, adding fabric

  • Module nine - Basic extraction and composites, the quick selection tool, adding different backgrounds

  • Module ten - colour and tone, gradient maps, LUTs and photo filters, Actions

My wish…

That The Photoshop Series - Portraits will;

  • learn how to create an effective and useful workflow for editing images

  • learn the secrets of clean-up and re-touching

  • Various techniques to improve your editing skills, and created imaginative fantasy portraits

  • Techniques will also work for beautiful natural portraits

  • Share and inspire each other in a group of like-minded people, foster friendships and just have fun

Class Content Includes

  • Ten modules, with 3-5 lessons in each module, covering different topics, from basic cleanup, retouching, dodge & burn, eyes, face augmentation (Pixie ears and eyebrows), matching and fixing skin tones, basic extractions & composites, colour and tone, PS Actions and so much more.

  • Content is in-depth videos, covering all topics

This Class is for You if:

  • This is something you have always wanted to try but was never sure where to start

  • You are ready to take your photography to the next level

  • You’re ready to get serious about next-level editing

Feel free to join our lively and active Private Facebook Group for even more ideas and inspiration, plus help and guidance every step of the way.

FAQs

Q - Do I need Adobe Photoshop to complete this course?

A - 100% Yes! you can get a Free 7-day Trial of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop from Adobe.com, it is under AUD$15.00 per month after that. (this also gives you access to Lightroom and mobile versions too).

Q - I don’t have a big fancy DSLR or many lenses

A - That’s OK we are mostly working within Photoshop and I also supply a free Model Pack so you can practice.

Q - How much time will it take?

A - Most classes are small with videos around 10 minutes long (some a little more or a little less), but the actual practice time is totally up to you. This is a self-paced class and once purchased you have life-time access, no hurry at all and you can revisit each class as many times as you wish. Generally, it takes about 20 hours to complete.

Q - How much is it?

A - Special introductory price AUD $125.00 for over 40 lessons, plus model packs, PS Actions, Textures, inspiration and guidance along the way.

Do you still have a few more questions? Email me directly, let’s chat julie.powell@outlook.com