THE ART & BUSINESS OF RETOUCHING
Hair Retouching Video Course
While hair retouching is considered one of the most complex technical skills a retoucher must have, this course will equip you with a variety of methods to take the struggle out of the process.
It is a skill that is necessary to develop, especially if you aim to work with commercial clients in the beauty or fashion industry, as the responsibility for ensuring flawless hair in the final images usually falls on the retoucher.
Upon completing this course, you will know how to achieve a clean, natural look, and learn:
- Essential hair retouching skills: fixing common issues like flyaways, frizz, stray hairs, gaps in strands, and more;
- Advanced methods & tactics: using hair grafting methods, repairing wig hairline, restoring skin after removing baby hairs on forehead, and more;
- Time-saving approach: streamlining your workflow and getting professional results faster;
- Multiple alternative methods for different challenges: advanced tactics and different options for tackling specific issues, choosing the best approach for the image at hand;
This course offers a variety of ways to make hair retouching simple and save time, as well as valuable insights for achieving professional results in beauty, portrait, and fashion photography – the largest photography and retouching market.
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 3h 38m
Practice Files: 4 layered PSD files photographed by Julia Kuzmenko & Michael Woloszynowicz, are provided for your analysis and practice
Additional Materials: Digital Guide + Custom Actions + Custom Brushes
Format: Digital Instant Download
Color Grade Video Course
Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video or, in our case, a digital image. Although every step of your retouching workflow is important, color grading has the potential to be the most impactful one and can easily make or break your final result. With skillful color grading, you can make your images pop off the page even with the simplest subject matter.
Our goal when creating this course was to help you masterfully color grade your personal and client work by providing you with a solid system and a set of versatile and intuitive color grading tools. Not only do we want you to understand what specific tools to use, but more importantly when and why to use them.
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 3h 38m
Practice Files: Layered .PSD files are provided for your analysis and practice
Additional Materials: Digital Guide + Michael’s Custom Actions
Format: Digital Instant Download
Master Dodge & Burn Video Course
SAVE $100
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
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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!