Sample lesson · no sign-in neededFast and believable retouching of "normal" faces in Photoshop – a complete system born from real-world needs.
You'll learn to edit a portrait quickly and efficiently in Photoshop. The course doesn't just present individual techniques but places them in a working system, forged by the demands of speed and quality.
You work non-destructively, so you can undo any edit at any time. A beginner will understand it and an advanced user will find tricks too. You get brushes for applying skin texture to download.
Skin tone
How to even out purple and red areas of skin in a few minutes and use Dodge & Burn creatively for shaping.
Skin smoothing
Two methods – Joel Grimes's and frequency separation – and how to give skin back its texture so the retouch is believable.
Hair and eyes
Liquify for hair volume, a patch for flyaway strands, lightening wrinkles and clean whites of the eyes.
What you'll learn
- shape the volume of hair and body parts
- clean up and brighten eyes
- even out colour differences in skin
- smooth skin and give it back its texture
- get rid of bags under the eyes in a minute
Who the course is for
- for anyone who wants to retouch an "ordinary" face
- for photographers who need to work quickly
- for those who already find their way around Photoshop
Course content
- 01Reshaping
- 02Removing flyaway hairs
- 03Basic skin retouching
- 04Lightening wrinkles
- 05Cleaning and brightening the eyes
- 06Evening out skin colour
- 07Dogde and Burn
- 08Retouching brush to download
- 09Skin smoothing
- 10Balancing the skin
- 11Frequency separation
About the lecturer
Antonín Lavrenčík
A professional portrait photographer and lecturer from Prague. He specialises in portrait photography, has been teaching since 2014 and emphasises the practical, hands-on side of teaching. He runs his own studio, Ateliér v továrně, in Prague's Modřany district.
Buyer reviews
I warmly recommend this online course to everyone. Everything is explained very nicely and understandably. This online course has definitely made me a bit smarter again and will surely take me a bit further in my work.
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