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Intro to Retouching in Photoshop

Learn the Art of Retouching in Photoshop

Overview

The introduction to retouching in Photoshop is designed for students who want to retouch photos to a professional level. Learn step by step how to remove skin blemishes, smooth skin tones, clean up backgrounds, dodge and burn, and make any image pop - all while maintaining the original features. Training is available one-on-one, small groups and for corporate businesses. All content can be tailored to suit your needs.

 

What you'll learn

  • Industry retouching workflow

  • Healing and clone tools

  • Non-destructive editing techniques

  • How to enhance colour and texture

  • Using filters and adjustment layers

  • Saving Images and files formats

Who is this Photoshop training for?

  • Regular users of Adobe Photoshop 

  • People who need to retouch and manipulate images.

  • Anyone who needs retouching skills to edit product shots.

  • People who regularly retouch portraits or lifestyle shots.

Requirements

You will need your own computer, with Adobe Photoshop installed.

 

A 7-day trial can be downloaded from the Adobe website:

https://www.adobe.com/au/downloads.html

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Tools covered in lessons

Colour Correction

  • Colour channels

  • Understanding histograms

  • The channel panel

  • Making colour adjustments

  • Colour balance adjustments

  • Automatic colour and tone adjustments

  • Selective colour adjustment

  • The adjustment panel

  • Automatic / semi-automatic / manual adjustments

  • Levels adjustments

  • Adjusting contrast with levels

  • Adjusting colour with levels

  • Curves

  • Colour adjustment with curves

  • Using threshold to mark highlights and shadows

  • Removing colour casts

  • Convert colour to black & white

Photo Retouching

  • Content aware scale with alpha channels

  • The healing tools

  • Using the spot healing brush tool

  • Using the healing brush tool

  • The patch tool

  • Red-eye removal

  • The clone stamp tool

  • The dodge tool

  • The burn tool

  • The sponge tool

  • Brush settings

  • Brush shortcuts

  • Content aware fill

  • The content aware move tool

  • Smart Sharpen

Onsite Adobe Training

 Don't waste time and money training in a classroom with 20 other people and one instructor.  We come to your preferred location across Melbourne, whether it's your home or office.

1 on 1  Private Tuition

One-on-one personalised training is a time-saving way to develop existing skills or learn new ones. We work with you on own projects so you get the most out of your Adobe design training.

Industry Experience

Our tutors work across a wide range of industries such as marketing, PR,  fashion, retail and publishing. This experience means that you are being taught real-world techniques.

What makes our training different?

Our Students work at these Companies

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