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CreativeLive

Advanced Portrait Retouching

via CreativeLive

Overview

Consistently make the people in your portraits shine by knowing exactly how and what to enhance or alter when retouching. Lisa Carney is back with the ultimate portrait retouching class. She will dive into working with a variety of skin tones, facial hair, body shaping, and clothing. No matter the person, lighting or portrait - this class will help show you how to enhance it in your post-processing. She’ll explain how to:

  • Prioritize your workflow
  • Use the clone/heal tools
  • Match skin tones
  • Work with lighting/shadows and volume

Lisa is one of the best retouchers on the Hollywood scene and will be sharing her professional insight into how she approaches workflow and technique to create amazing portraits.


Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2017

Syllabus

  • Class Introduction
  • Getting Started on the Image
  • Mark Up Process
  • Spotting & Cloning
  • Gaussian Blur Smoothing Skin
  • Surface Blur for Smoothing Skin
  • Frequency Separation for Skin
  • Create Skin Textures
  • Color Correction for Skin
  • Add Details to The Face
  • Add Natural Looking Eyelashes
  • Enhance the Eyebrows
  • Brighten Whites of the Eyes
  • Sharpen the Eye Details
  • Replace Face Details with Masks
  • Subtract Details: Freckles
  • Add, Subtract & Paint Hair
  • Create Hair Highlights
  • Change the Hair Color
  • Body Shaping: Overview
  • Basic Body Shaping
  • Body Shaping Through Masking
  • Body Shaping: Liquify Tool
  • Body Shaping: Puppet Warp Tool
  • Retouch Wrinkled Skin

Taught by

Lisa Carney

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