Adobe Photoshop for Retouching Portraits
By Iris Encina
, Photographer and retoucher
Learn to maximize your photo portraits with post-production
- Domestika Basics 5 courses Best Seller Spanish with subtitles in English
- 98% Positive reviews (306)
- 9065 students

Learn to maximize your photo portraits with post-production
- 98% Positive reviews (306)
- 9065 students
- 5 courses
- Online and at your own pace
- Audio: Spanish
- Level: Beginner
- 31 Lessons (3h 3m)
- 12 downloads
- Available from the app
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, German
- Unlimited access forever
Domestika Basics · 5 courses included
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Course 1 - First Steps
By Iris Encina
Start laying the foundations for your work with Camera Raw settings
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Course 2 - Let’s Start Retouching
By Iris Encina
Discover the main Photoshop filters to clean up skin
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Course 3 - Frequency Separation
By Iris Encina
Learn to separate color from texture to make retouching skin easier
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Course 4 - Dodge and Burn
By Iris Encina
Learn to manipulate the exposure of a selected area to achieve volume in your portraits
Develop an efficient workflow in the post - production process is key to achieving professional quality and in portrait photography, this is often what differentiates a photographer Amateur one set. Iris Encina is a photographer and professional retoucher, and in this 5-course Domestika Basics, she will show you her method of retouching portraits in Adobe Photoshop, paying special attention to skin and hair.
You will start by entering Camera Raw, where you will give the first preparatory touch-ups to your photos before passing them to Photoshop. You will configure your workspace and adapt it to your needs.
In the second course you will start retouching in Photoshop and you will know tools that will become your best friends, such as the smoothie, the concealer brush, the clone buffer and the selection tools.
You will continue to discover the separation of frequencies, a process by which you can divide a photo into layers of texture and color to facilitate the cleaning of skins and color correction.
The fourth course will focus on Dodge and Burn tools, which will allow you to manipulate the exposure at specific points in a photo; In this way you will generate volume in them and improve the texture of the skin.
You will finish your learning by learning color adjustments and giving your personal touch to the photos through adjustment layers. Finally, you will learn to export your photographs for different formats, both web and print.
Technical requirements
- ⦁ A computer with Windows 10 or macOS 10.12 Sierra (or higher).
⦁ Adobe Photoshop CC (you can buy it or download the 7-day trial version on the Adobe website).
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By Iris Encina
Iris Encina is a photographer, retoucher, and photography and post-production teacher. During her Fine Arts studies at the University of Cuenca, she discovered her passion for photography, being a student of the renowned photographer Luis Baylón. Since then she is dedicated to the profession.
She is a specialist in fashion photography and post-production and has always worked as a photographer although in different sectors. Currently, Iris works as a social and family photographer, as well as working as a retoucher and teacher in Madrid.
Contents
Course 1 - First Steps
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U1
Welcome
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Welcome
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U2
Camera RAW
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Camera RAW
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U3
Settings to work with Photoshop
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Settings to work with Phosotshop
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U4
Worklfow
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Workflow
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U5
Annotations
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Annotations
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U6
Homework
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Homework
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Course 2 - Let’s Start Retouching
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U1
Welcome
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Welcome
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U2
Smoothie
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Smoothie
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U3
Concealer brush
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Concealer brush
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U4
Cloner buffer
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Cloner buffer
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U5
Cleaning with selections
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Cleaning with selections
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U6
Put into practice what you have learned
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Put into practice what you have learned
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Course 3 - Frequency Separation
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U1
Welcome
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Welcome
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U2
What is and what is the frequency separation?
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What is and what is the frequency separation?
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U3
Work in frequency separation with cleaning tools
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Work in frequency separation with cleaning tools
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U4
Blurs and paint in frequency separation
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Blurs and paint in frequency separation
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U5
Work with texture
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Work with texture
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U6
Put into practice everything learned
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Put into practice everything learned
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Course 4 - Dodge and Burn
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U1
Welcome
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Welcome
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U2
What is dodge and burn for?
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What is dodge and burn for?
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U3
Help layers
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Help layers
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U4
Dodge and Burn Local
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Dodge and Burn Local - part 1
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Dodge and Burn Local - part 2
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U5
Dodge and Burn Global
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Dodge and Burn Global
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U6
To practice!
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To practice!
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Course 5 - Color
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U1
Welcome
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Welcome
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U2
Layers in color mode
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Layers in color mode
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U3
Adjustment layers
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Adjustment layers
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U4
Carving and color Red
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Carving and color Red
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U5
Save and export
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Save and export
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U6
Put into practice what has been learned
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Put into practice what has been learned
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About Domestika Basics
Domestika Basics is a series of courses focused on teaching the most commonly used software by creative professionals worldwide. The courses are taught in an easy, step-by-step fashion.
The content has been meticulously curated and is intended for both, beginning students going into a new creative field and more experienced professionals who need to polish their skills.
Learn with top Domestika teachers through hands-on lessons, plentiful resources and incremental challenges that will allow you to see results from the very first day.
Domestika Basics will allow you to step-up your professional game and be prepared to score better projects.
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Without prior knowledge.
Domestika Basics gives you everything you need to get started on a new creative field and become an expert on it.
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Focused on the tool.
Discover its principles, techniques, and the tried-and-true methods you need to master it.
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Learn fast.
With a straightforward, step-by-step approach, our outstanding professionals will teach you how to get the most out of the program.
dariia.mykh
Me gustó el curso. Interesante y bien explicado!
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eliudromero
Gran curso! Estoy por terminarlo y realmente aprendí mucho, es un curso super bien organizado y al grano. Da grandes herramientas para implementarlo en nuestro trabajo.
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issab
Está muy bien. Bastante completo y bien explicado
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8am7afet65
Un gran curso. Te indica perfectamente cómo puedes retocar las fotografías de retrato. Muy recomendable tanto por el contenido como por la explicación.
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daelyflorez
Excelente curso, muy bien explicado, en el que aprendí a mejorar el flujo de trabajo y las diferentes técnicas para lograr un buen retoque de retrato, muchas gracias Iris.
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