Beauty Retouching for Beginners

How to Set up Photoshop

A course by Xi Chen , Photo Retoucher

Photo Retoucher. New York, United States.
Joined November 2020
96% positive reviews (54)
1,649 students
Audio: English
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About the video: How to Set up Photoshop

Overview

“This lesson is about understanding the settings in Photoshop before importing a photo to start retouching. We will go through color settings, workspace, and some keyboard shortcuts.”

In this video lesson Xi Chen addresses the topic: How to Set up Photoshop, which is part of the Domestika online course: Beauty Retouching for Beginners. Learn the basics of professional image retouching and color correction for beauty and product photography.

Partial transcription of the video

“How to Set up Photoshop In this lesson, we're gonna learn how to set up Photoshop before we start working on any images. This step is quite essential. I'm going to show you how I set up my Photoshop workspaces for images that are meant to be outputted for both or either print and digital format. Let's get started. First thing I usually do to set up my Photoshop, is to make sure that the Photoshop is in the right color space. And what is a color space?, you may ask. It's a like a container, in which the Photoshop will be providing the amount of color it is able to display within the software...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.


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

Xi Chen

Xi Chen
A course by Xi Chen

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Photo Retoucher

Xi Chen is a freelance photo retoucher based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally a photographer, she now specializes in color correction and retouching images for fashion editorials, portraits, commercial campaigns, social media content, and fine art.

Xi has worked with luxury fashion brands like Chanel, Prada, Alexander Wang, Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Hermes, Valentino, Bobbi Brown, Vera Wang, and more. Her client list also includes Google, Samsung, Nike, and Adidas, as well as editorials like GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.


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Beauty Retouching for Beginners. Photography, and Video course by Xi Chen

Beauty Retouching for Beginners

A course by Xi Chen
Photo Retoucher. New York, United States.
Joined November 2020
  • 96% positive reviews (54)
  • 1,649 students