PHOTOSHOP CC RETOUCHING AND EFFECTS MASTERCLASS
— Chad Neuman
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About This Course
Welcome to this comprehensive Adobe Photoshop Portrait Retouching Course! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced photographer, this course is designed to equip you with the skills and techniques needed to enhance and transform your portrait photographs.
Throughout this in-depth course, you will delve into various key areas of portrait retouching, including color correction, lighting adjustments, retouching techniques, special effects, black-and-white conversions, and organizing your photos. The engaging video lectures, accompanied by printable handouts, will guide you through each step of the retouching process.
In the "Portrait Photo Corrections" section, you will learn how to correct color and lighting in your photos, remove dust and scratches, adjust levels and curves for improved lighting, fix white balance issues, sharpen portrait photos, correct lens distortion, and crop and level your images. These skills will enable you to make significant enhancements to your portraits and create visually stunning results.
Continuing on to the "Portrait Retouching Techniques" section, you will discover advanced techniques to refine and perfect your portraits. You'll learn how to remove dark circles and wrinkles, enhance and sharpen eyes, adjust eye color, reshape eyebrows and teeth, whiten teeth, modify the nose, remove stray hairs, and add highlights to hair. These techniques will help you create flawless and captivating portraits.
In the "RAW Filter Portrait Retouching Techniques" section, you will explore the power of the Camera RAW filter in Adobe Photoshop. You'll learn how to sharpen and smoothen images, enhance colors, remove blemishes, and make selective adjustments to achieve professional-level retouching results.
Next, in the "Special Effects and Stylizing in Portrait Photos" section, you will learn how to apply creative effects and stylization to your portraits. You'll discover techniques for adding contrast, making colors pop, creating photo collages, achieving a pop-out effect, simulating depth of field, adding powerful backgrounds, and even cloning yourself in a photo.
The "Artistic Black-and-White Portrait Conversions" section will teach you how to artistically convert your portraits into stunning black-and-white images. You'll explore various conversion methods, including color mode and channel conversions, masking techniques, black-and-white adjustments, channel mixer adjustments, gradient map adjustments, and RAW filter conversions.
Discover how to effectively organize your portrait photo library and streamline your workflow using actions. You'll learn techniques for organizing photos, creating and applying batch actions, and maximizing your efficiency in Adobe Photoshop.
Throughout the course, you'll have the opportunity to practice what you've learned through assignments and quizzes. This will reinforce your understanding and enable you to apply the techniques to your own portrait photography projects.
By the end of this course, you'll have gained a deep understanding of Adobe Photoshop's tools and features specifically tailored for portrait retouching. You'll be able to confidently enhance portraits, correct colors, manipulate lighting, remove imperfections, apply creative effects, convert images to stunning black-and-white, and efficiently organize your photo library.
Enroll in the Adobe Photoshop Portrait Retouching Course today and unlock your creative potential to elevate the quality of your portrait photography. Embark on this exciting journey together and take your skills to the next level!
Acquired Knowledge
Edit and improve portait photos professionally in Photoshop.
Improve lighting, color, composition, and sharpness with Photoshop.
Apply industry-standard Photoshop retouching techniques in portrait photos.
Use Photoshop to create special effects in portrait photos.
Convert color photos to black-and-white in an artistic manner in Photoshop.
Stylize and add interest to portrait photos.
Requirements
Students need Adobe Photoshop (preferably Creative Cloud, although many earlier versions will have many of the tools; free trial version is fine as well)
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