Photoshop CS5: Professional Retouching

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This two day Adobe authorised 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.

Course Description

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

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

Workflow enhancements
• Creating Actions to streamline your workflow. You will take these Actions away with you to use after the course.

Useful third party plug-ins

Questions and answers