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Welcome to"Photoshop Portrait Editing: Complete Professional Workflow!
Have you ever been curious what it takes to get flawless, striking but still natural-looking portraits?
Photography portraiture while being an extremely rewarding genre requires certain amount of skill to thrive.
The creative process begins with your unique vision, continues while working on mood, composition and exposure. Well exposed photo is a great starting point - if you produced quality RAW material during the photoshoot, you've arrived to aplace where the magic begins. Now with skilful editing you can transform your images, taking them from OK-ish to impressive."Skilful" is a master word here, since it takes knowledge and experience to enhance the RAW material by emphasising its' strong parts and correcting the flaws.
In this courseI will teach you a complete set of portrait retouching techniques with a deep dive into the Dodgingand Burning.
The Portrait Editing Workflow taught in this course consists of the following steps:
- quick clean-up,
- advanced Dodge & Burn
- targeted luminosity adjustments
- selective sharpening
- color workoptional finish: funky Gel Lighting Effect
You will learn how to prepare your photo for the edit, how to enhance definition and add more depth and contrast with Dodge and Burn technique - the "heart" of any efficient edit. Dodging &Burning derives from a darkroom manual photo developing techniques. Simply speaking it is based on darkening (burning) or brightening (dodging) selected areas in the image. Since photography is all about light and shadow - Dodging & Burning well performed can truly enhance definition of your work.
First we will create a set of Layers that will be used to perform the Dodging & Burning technique. After getting the Layers stack ready comes the image evaluation - here we decide on the look we want to achieve. Typically the Dodge & Burn process is divided into two stages: Corrective and Contouring. During the Corrective stage we are working with large magnification and focusing mostly on perfecting surfaces in the photo such as smoothening skin texture. This is most time consuming part of the edit, requires precision and patience. The second stage, Contouring is the fun-part, which most of the photographers truly enjoy. During Contouring we will work with global enhancement of light and shadow in the image - the effect is increased contrast, greater sense of depth and volume. Both stages need to be performed in a sensible manner sincethere is a fine line between an enhanced, effective image and overdone, fake-looking final effect. To finish up the basicedit we will applytargeted luminosity adjustments and selective sharpening.
Having the image perfected during the Dodging & Burning we will be ready to move on andadd astyle to the image.We will get theartistic lookby addingdramatic coloured effect, derived from theatre andcinematography. By introducing strong, flashy colors we will create images with a twist - provoking,vibrant portraitspulsating with energy. We will be working in a non-destructive way with the most powerful Photoshop tools that allow adjust color in the image to our needs. We will perform the color grading process with the Color Fill and Selective Color Adjustment Layers combined with Photoshop Masks.
In this course we will be working with 3 different images and combination of the most powerful Photoshop techniques. I believe that the most effective way of learning anyartistic skills leads through practice and thats why this course takes an intense,hands-on approach. You will be working along with me on each andevery edit - I will walk you right from the starting point, through complete sequence of adjustments.
When you join me in the course you will get instant access to 3 high quality photos which we will use as a base during the editing process.You will get the original files and final versions with all editable Photoshop layers included.Working with the supporting materials is an extremely effective way to master Photoshop techniques. They allow you to start the course immediately with no time wasted on research and preparations.
Even if you dont have experience with Photoshop you will be able to follow me along and starting with simple techniques you will gradually build up your skills.
At the end of the course you will be confident in evaluating your images, you will gain practical skills allowing you towork with the most effective Photoshop tools to take your images from boring to striking.
Join me and lets together unlock hidden potential in your photographs. See you inside the course!
Kasia
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