Who is this Course For? ️

Photographers and retouchers who are already familiar with Adobe Photoshop and basic retouching, and are interested in mastering retouching at a professional level.

High-quality skin & hair retouching is the key post-production skill required in any genre of professional photography that involves images of people, such as portraits, fashion and especially beauty.

This course offers an even wider range of lessons that go beyond technical beauty retouching skills. We cover different areas of expertise expected from a retouching professional from file handling to business etiquette, file structure, and, of course, the most commonly used professional techniques.

With the rise of online shopping and social media, businesses produce more visual content than ever to promote their frequent product launches, creating a constant demand for skilled post-production professionals.

In recent years, brands of all sizes have increasingly opted to outsource content creation, including photography, retouching, and color matching. These commercial clients rely on skilled creative professionals with efficient tools and the shortest turnaround times to produce high-quality promotional materials.

Learn Pro Beauty Retouching

Too many retouchers compete in the overcrowded bottom of the market, where rates and quality demands remain low, especially with the rise of AI tools and customer preference changes.

However, highly skilled professionals who can handle commercial post-production – as remote freelancers or in-house – will remain in high demand.

After completing this course, you will have the knowledge and skills to produce retouching work that meets commercial client standards (e.g. beauty, wellness, and other brands).

This skill set opens doors to commercial work, whether you’re a photographer who also offers retouching services, a retoucher seeking senior in-house or remote positions, or a creative professional interested in agency or brand roles that manage post-production projects, interfacing with photographers and retouchers on behalf of the client.

Course Purpose & Promise

High-quality retouching, particularly in beauty photography, requires a deeper understanding of the key principles, tools, and techniques, far beyond the basic, less-refined photo editing and quick-fix solutions.

In this video course, we cover what you need to know to enter the world of professional retouching, whether as a freelancer serving prestigious, top-tier clients remotely or as part of an in-house retouching team.

We cover the essential areas of expertise necessary for a retouching professional, including file handling, business etiquette, file structure, and the most commonly used professional techniques. You will learn to identify and use the tools and techniques that are most relevant, and efficient for the task at hand.

Additionally, we will walk you through a couple of full retouches from start to finish, demonstrating varying goals that call for different workflows.

This course will also help self-taught retouchers learn the proper methods and workflows and correct any bad habits they may have picked up by learning from other self-taught retouchers.

While we touch on fundamental subjects like Curves, Selections, and Masking, we focus on how these tools and techniques are applied in a professional environment.

In this course, we bring decades of distilled combined industry experience and share our refined beauty retouching workflows. We teach manageable and repeatable methods that are easy to understand and implement in various retouching situations.

What Is Included

Immediately after your purchase, you will have access to the streaming videos and downloadable materials in your Course Library (login details provided in an automated email):

• Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
• Format: Streaming
• Access: Lifetime
• Duration: Over 5 hours
• Practice Files: 3 beauty images photographed by Julia Kuzmenko & Anita Sadowska

Course Outline & Topics

The goal of this course is to help you improve and advance your beauty retouching skills, teach you the methods used by retouching professionals, correct any bad retouching habits you may have picked up on the internet, and equip you with the knowledge and expertise you need to pursue work with commercial clients or land senior retoucher roles – remote or in-house.

Module 1: Starting Out & Organization

• Starting as a retouching professional
• Handling work files
• Processing Raw files
• Structuring your PSD files like a pro

Module 2: Mastering Curves and Dodge & Burn

• Mastering Curves
• Mastering Dodge & Burn
• Natural beauty retouching for female portraits (from start to finish)

Module 3: Professional Selections & Masking

• Professional Selections & Masking methods
• Advanced Masking methods
• Luminosity Masking
• Precise masking with Select & Mask

Module 4: Working with Colors

• Color theory & management in practice
• Re-coloring methods
• Backgrounds and banding

Module 5: Frequency Separation & More

• Pro use of the Frequency Separation Technique
• Drawing in hair, lashes & brows
• Working with Smart Objects
• Full natural beauty retouch for studio beauty (from start to finish)

Comes packed with valuable materials, practice beauty images, pro insights, tips and guidance to accelerate your learning progress:

🎁 Bonus Materials:

• RA Lash, Brow & Hair custom brushes,
• Retouching Job Application Checklist;
• Pro Retouching Vocabulary.

⛔️ If you are a beginner, please consider our Beginner Retoucher or All-in-One Beauty Retouch bundles instead.

Go pro with industry-standard
knowledge & practices

This course is for photographers and retouchers interested in becoming beauty retouching professionals with industry-standard knowledge and practices.

♦️  Solid skill base: You will learn proper retouching methods, key principles, tools, and techniques necessary for high-quality professional beauty retouching, including close-up beauty photography.

♦️  Non-destructive and lean PSD workflow: You will learn to avoid destructive, irreversible changes, and organize your working PSD files like a pro.

♦️  Professional skill level: You will learn the methods and techniques to produce retouching results that are accepted by commercial clients (e.g. beauty, wellness, and other brands).

♦️  Time-saving approach: You will learn efficient methods and multiple solutions for various retouching challenges.

♦️  Career potential: Ultimately, after completing this course and with sufficient practice, you will develop professional retouching skills that meet industry standards, and allow you to qualify for senior in-house retouching roles, creative agency and brand opportunities, or remote freelance work for commercial clients from anywhere in the world.

With this solid foundation in retouching, you will be able to quickly adopt new technologies, add retouching tools to speed up your workflow, and maximize your efficiency to stay ahead of the competition.

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