Ultimate Retouching

Retouching is easy! This course will teach you everything you need to know to be a good retoucher!

Created by: House of Retouching
High-end Postproduction Studio

What Will I Learn?

• A step by step proven method of retouching, which will set you on a road to quick progress and success.
• Retouching skin, hair and clothes.
• Dodge and burn + HDR
• Creating your own retouching style.
• Which tools to use and how to configure them.
• Ins and outs of cleaning, creative retouching, relighting and photoshop grading.
• Analysing the weak and strong points of a photograph.
• Knowledge of the process, which an image goes through, in order to attain it's full potential.
• Pricing, marketing and business basics of the postproduction market.
• Talking with clients, important aspects to think about before starting a retouching assignment.
• An overview of how the job of a professional retoucher looks

Requirements

• Basic photoshop knowledge.
• PC or Mac with Photoshop - version CS5 or newer.
• Preferably: A pen tablet like a Wacom. A mouse is also fine, yet retouching with a pen is a much better option and all examples are conducted using a tablet.
• A smile to brighten your road to great images!

Target audience

• People how want to learn retouching. Novice and advanced alike.
• Photographers wanting to up their retouching skills.
• Retouchers wanting to go to a pro level.
• Pro retouchers who want to learn a large studio workflow and practises.
• Graphic designers who struggle with correcting images.
• Art directors who would like to know what is possible in retouching and be able to do rough changes based on their ideas on images.
• Ecommerce specialists
• Art department employees within to broaden their photoshop knowledge.
• Archivists needing better skills to clean scans and reproductions.