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Skin Retouching Video Course

Unlike our previous courses that focused on specific retouching tools and techniques – albeit very important ones – this time we take a much more holistic approach and turn our attention to the area that beauty, portrait and fashion retouchers have to excel at the most – skin retouching.

While it may seem like a narrow focus, the challenges faced by retouchers dealing with skin are broad and diverse, making this subject one of the most difficult to master.

Our ultimate purpose with this in-depth course is that you come away with a great deal of confidence in tackling a variety of retouching skin problems and, after an adequate amount of practice, end up producing results that are both more polished and more natural.

Please note that this course is exclusively available in an online “streaming” format, however, the bonus materials and practice files are downloadable.

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: Over 7 hours
Videos: 39 video lessons
Format: Streaming
Access: Lifetime
Additional Materials:  2 Custom Action Sets
Practice Files: 7 Raw & PSD files photographed by Michael WoloszynowiczJulia Kuzmenko McKim

 

$169.00 USD BUY NOW

Professional Beauty Retouching

The world of professional beauty retouching is very exciting, collaborative and diverse. However, the percentage of skilled professionals who are qualified to work for prestigious commercial clients in the beauty, health and wellness industry is very small. While a myriad of freelancers compete at the bottom of the retouching market, skilled retouching professionals are in high demand due to the sheer number of businesses that create an enormous amount of visual content today. They all need qualified post-production help: processing, retouching, color-matching.

Working pro retouchers are well-versed in common practices when retouching and handling their clients’ files. They know what is expected of them and know when and what to ask. Proper skills and reliability are all that matter. When budgets are measured in tens of thousands of dollars, no one has the time to deal with an incompetent or disorganized freelancer in the fast-paced business world.

While we can’t help you become more reliable or resilient, our course can undeniably help improve your skills and lay a foundation for professional retouching methods and habits, so you are completely prepared when the opportunity arises.

This course is created by commercial beauty photographer and retoucher Julia Kuzmenko McKim (Los Angeles, CA) and narrated by professional retoucher Sarah Tucker (London, UK).

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 5 hours
Videos: 24 video lessons, including 2 full retouches from start to finish
Format: Streaming
Additional Materials: Custom Brushes + Job Application Checklist + Pro Retouching Vocabulary
Practice Files:  3 Raw files photographed by Julia Kuzmenko & Anita Sadowska 

$199.00 USD BUY NOW

Master Dodge & Burn Video Course

 

One of the biggest challenges in beauty, portrait and fashion photography is skin retouching. Dodge & Burn is the key retouching technique that all professional retouchers use to make the surface of the skin look healthy and even, while maintaining its true texture and detail in their images. If your goal is to become proficient at retouching, you should absolutely undoubtedly focus on mastering this important technique.

In our 4-part intensive course, we take a deep dive into the Dodge & Burn technique with the author, Fashion, Beauty & Portrait Photographer and Retoucher Michael Woloszynowicz. Michael is one of the leading Retouching Academy instructors and Fstoppers writers, globally known for not only his top-quality work but also his super accessible style of teaching.

So, if you have been struggling with Dodging & Burning, this course will be a quick ride to your D&B breakthrough.

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 3:35 hours
Practice Files: Layered .PSD files are provided for your analysis and practice
Additional Materials: Digital Guide + Michael’s Custom Actions
Format: Digital Instant Download

 

$149.00 USD BUY NOW

Studio Beauty Video Course

We created the Studio Beauty video training for amateur and professional photographers who are interested in expanding into Beauty Photography, including both Beauty Portraits and Commercial Beauty.

The primary mission of this course is to teach you, the photographer, how to confidently and consistently set up beautiful lighting for portraits and beauty photography, as well as how to plan and execute a photoshoot when working with a creative team. 

The authors, successful international commercial photographers with extensive teaching experience around the world, Julia Kuzmenko McKim (Los Angeles, CA) and Aleksey Dovgulya (Moscow, Russia), always aim to shoot right in camera, so they teach how to produce images that will require as little post-production labor as possible through correct lighting and avoiding common mistakes.

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 3 hours
Digital Book: 104 pages
Format: Digital Instant Download

Please note that this course does not include post-production!

$199.00 USD BUY NOW