Beauty Retouching for Beginners
Color Balancing, Light, and Shadows
A course by Xi Chen , Photo Retoucher
About the video: Color Balancing, Light, and Shadows
Overview
“In this lesson, I am going to show you how to do color-balancing with various tools. The goal here is to apply simple masking techniques and unify the skin tone (difference in color between face and neck, red ears). ”
In this video lesson Xi Chen addresses the topic: Color Balancing, Light, and Shadows , 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
“Color Balance and the Skin Now we have done all the retouching for this image, we will see how to color balance and unify the skin tone, as well as how to selectively add light and shadows into a specific area. This is the last step of the retouching process for me and it's the cherry on top of the ice cream. Let's get into it. On this stage I usually use the Curves Tool to selectively lighten or darken certain parts of the image to manipulate the lighting, and also it's a very efficient way of retouching an image without losing details on textures. What I'm going to show you is a couple of...”
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Course summary for: Beauty Retouching for Beginners
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Areas
Digital Photography, Fashion Photography, Photo Retouching, Photography, Portrait Photography
Xi Chen
A course by Xi Chen
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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