Adobe Photoshop CS4: Professional Retouching

Course Description:

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.

This course includes the following modules:

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