Beauty Retouching for Beginners

Beauty Retouching for Beginners

“Now you have learned how to retouch a beauty portrait, a still life image, and make a GIF. It is time that we put those skills to use. Don't forget you can use the images I have provided you with throughout the course to practice and refine your skills. However, I encourage you to take pictures and use them as retouching material. Apply the techniques I have shown you but adding your own twist to them. I would love to see how have you retouched a given image (but remember that regardless of the theme or approach you choose, the images have to be reversible). You can do either a portrait, a still-life, a GIF, or even all three if you feel like it. No matter what you do, remember to include the breakdown of the process and the product. That is what will make your final project. If you go for the portrait. Be mindful of the goals you want to achieve or the point you want to make across with the portrait you are retouching. See how you can adjust the lighting and other aspects so it makes the model glow. Play around, have fun. If you are fond of still-life and prefer to create a final project centered around retouching a still-life image, study how you can place the focus on the subject, which in this case it might be a given product, flowers, or food. Play with the crops, or the directional lighting so that you can draw attention to the main central elements of the composition. In either case, always remember to check with the original o reference image to compare and contrast. Let me show you some images of how my still-life evolved, applying all the steps I have showed you.

Lastly, for the GIF, what I did was a change of lighting on a subject that stayed still. You can play around by moving the subject around instead of the light. Keep in mind that it is good to have one aspect of the image staying still, which could be the light, the subject, or the composition. However, rules are made up by people, so you feel free to break them. I’d love to see what you come up with. Thank you all for taking this course. It means a lot to me that I could share my knowledge with you. I will be looking out for your final projects on the forum. I will be answering your questions on the forum whenever I can. Please be patient about receiving answers, as I am a working professional who is usually busy. However, feel free to provide feedback or give suggestions to your course mates in the forum if you see something that you have an answer to. Until next time, I wish you joy, creativity, and health. ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Now we've reached the end of the course. I hope you enjoyed what I've shared with you. A lot of these tips are from my experiences and things I've learned from doing jobs in the actual industry, and I hope they are useful to you. One thing I'd like to really emphasize is to ensure the files are reversible. This is extremely important, so please keep that in mind before you start working. I'll walk you through what we've learned in this course, a little bit of an overview so you don't miss any details. First, I walked you through how to set up Photoshop before you start importi...”

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Course summary for: Beauty Retouching for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (54)
• 1649 students
• 5 units
• 18 lessons (2h 53m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Areas

  Digital Photography, Fashion Photography, Photo Retouching, Photography, Portrait Photography