Our Professional Portrait Retouching Course is for anyone wanting to take their portraiture to the next level. Retouching portraiture is a must if you want your shots to look professional, so it stacks up with the best out there.

In this course, you’ll learn about how to professionally retouch eyes, teeth, skin, lips, hair as well as many more advanced techniques such as adjusting clothing, how to colour grade portraits correctly and how to professionally retouch newborn photography. This is a one-stop solution ensuring you learn the pro techniques to push your work into places you never thought possible.

To give you the full range of skills you’ll need, the course is taught via Photoshop, Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. And as always with TSOP it’s delivered in an easy to understand way, breaking down this complex subject into manageable learning tasks anyone can understand and comes complete with all the raw files allowing you to follow along with the lessons with ease.

What you will learn

• Introduction to portrait retouching, what it’s for, what you’re missing out on
• The Photoshop Workspace
• Processing Raw files in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom
• Organising your portraiture in Lightroom
• Easy working between Lightroom and Photoshop
• Advanced uses of the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush Tools
• How to colour tone for portraiture
• Adjustment Layers
• Layer Masking
• Sharpening portraiture for reduced noise
• Layer Blend Modes
• Selecting and refining selections
• Frequency Separation
• Photoshop Filters
• Apply Image settings in Photoshop
• Creating flawless skin
• Retouching for a natural look
• Adjusting skin colour
• Adjusting clothing
• Working with 16bit images
• Working with multiple layers and layer groups
• Crop ratios
• Newborn retouching

Who is this course for?

• Photographers wanting to take their portraiture to the next level.
• Intermediate Photoshop users wanting to fill any gaps of knowledge that are stopping them retouching portraits to their full potential.
• People wanting to learn Photoshop skills to enhance portraiture.
• Professional portrait photographers wanting their work to compete with the best out there.