Boudoir & Portrait Retouching Workflow for Photographers (Udemy.com)

Retouching adds personal touch and breathes life into photos, and it doesn't have to be a slow and tedious grind. This course aims to save you time, spark your passion, and help you create outstanding portraits, by showing you an entire retouching workflow, perfected over 10 years of active work both as a professional boudoir photographer and retoucher.

Complete start-to-finish retouching guide will teach you:

• RAW Photo Editing - Color Stylisation & Grading, Color Contrast

• Efficient Skin Retouch Basics & Tools - Smooth Skin and Preserve Detail

• Advanced Frequency Separation & Mixer Brush Made Simple!

• Thinking Outside the Box and Creative Ways of Using Tools and Techniques

• Finding the Most Time Efficient Methods

• Adding Depth and Dimension using 3 Types of Dodge and Burn

• Master Subject Separation, Guiding Attention, Boosting Detail

• Create Atmosphere and Ambience in Your Photos!

• Learn to Analyze Photos, and Squeeze the Last Drop of Color Contrast

• Sharpen and Optimize Your Photo for Publishing!
  

Having spent most of my recent years offering private education, I've noticed a growing trend of photographers reaching out to me with some basic knowledge, that's more often than not, a confusing mess of 'half baked' information, techniques and advice picked up from various Youtube channels. All this in most cases causes total confusion, stress, wasted time, poorly retouched photos, eventually leading to loss of passion and love for this beautiful art and craft.

This course is my best effort to date, to demystify retouching, bring clarity, simplicity and fun into the process many photographers struggle with, allowing you to explore what truly matters - your creativity, efficiently and stress free.

By the end of this course, you will understand where color harmonies are being created, how to post process your RAW file and pull the most out of the RAW data, how to retouch skin for any kind of professional publication or commercial work, how to add depth and dimension to your photos, making the color pop, and creating the sought after subject separation, famously known as the ''3D effect''

Contents and Overview

3 hours of study content and follow along material, covering the way from the initial color stylisation and Lightroom/Camera RAW setup, to a high end professionally retouched photo that could be printed or published.
For your convenience, the course is divided into 7 chapters, all starting with a discussion and analysis of our goals, followed by the in depth explanation of the tools we're going to be using
The course is going to be focusing on non destructive retouching techniques, that are the high end industry standard, explained in a simple, beginner friendly way,
A significant portion of the course focuses on color work, that is besides skin work, another key factor that makes a photo stand out.

The 7 chapters of the course are: 

Chapter I — Color Correction and Grading
Chapter II — Basic Skin Work
Chapter III — Advanced Skin Retouch
Chapter IV — Dodge and Burn
Chapter V — Detail Enhancement
Chapter VI — Plugins and Atmosphere
Chapter VII — Final Color Correction

You will also receive
a RAW file used in the lesson, for practice, or if you wish to follow along
Two Action Packs, there to help you save tremendous amount of time
Photoshop Workspace Presets to help organize your workspace
Portrait Retouching Checklist - with everything you need to look at and analyze
Dodge and Burn guides and examples

I would add that the methods and techniques you will find here are universal and you can apply them to all kinds of portrait photography (high end beauty, newborn, elopement, studio, neon, outdoor, family, boudoir, lifestyle, glamour, nightlife, commercial, couple, fine art, business…)