Professional Retouching for Product Photography in Photoshop

Professional Retouching for Product Photography in Photoshop

“Thank you for taking the time to attend this course and I hope that the product photography retouching tools and techniques taught here will make your job easier. It is important to me that you can take a lot from this course for your future. Therefore, it is now time to work on your course project by completing the course exercises and using the image shown to put what you have learned into practice in your own way. Of course, you can also use your own – all the better! You now have everything it takes! I want to give you a brief summary of the essential steps and a few tips: Structured work Make life easy for yourself early on and work in a structured way. Once unstructured, this means double work and a lot of searching. Name all files to be used and create a large working file in the correct color profile.

Image Preparations Mark up what you want to do and/or get clarity by reading an accompanying briefing. Also pay attention to angles. All folders should be roughly modeled on the following structure: background, middle ground and foreground. You should add a background layer to every large folder so that you don't get any surprises later when collapsing/merging the folders. Set, items and shadows Think carefully about what you want to recreate (background, subsurface, set items and shadows) and which elements you get or just clean up. Don't forget to refine the masks and pay attention to blurring. Replication and Optimization Be creative and pay close attention when recreating textures, light gradients and color gradients of the background and set items. If necessary, divide the picture into luminance, hue and saturation and always look at the before and after picture. Get references and watch carefully. Pay attention to the cleanliness, legibility of the labels and the product colors. Add nicer reflections or glare stars if needed. The follow-up Prepare everything for the client and your presentation. Publish only after you've got the client's approval and they've already used the images - never before. Give and receive feedback on your before and after picture in the forum. Upload your finished project to the forum by simply clicking on "Create your project". You are welcome to add a short description to the pictures of your work process. Now be proud of yourself and keep practicing - only by constant repetition you guarantee not to forget anything. You have already taken one of the most important steps! If you have any questions about the process or would like to engage with the community in the forum, feel free to do so anytime! Of course, I will stop by as often as possible and be at your side with advice and feedback. See you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“final project Thank you for taking my course. I will now give you a brief summary and a few final tips to hand. First I have you insights given into the world of retouching and styles. Then we looked at the color profile, the document structure and the elements of the image taken care of from back to front. For exporting the file for you and your customer I also gave you tips along the way. I sent you the optimized version for export shown for you and your customer and give you a few final tips. Make life easy for yourself early on and work in a structured way. Once unstructured, you end up...”

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Course summary for: Professional Retouching for Product Photography in Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
• 72% positive reviews (29)
• 953 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 47m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Photo Retouching, Photography, Photography Post-production, Product Photography