Learn Black and White Photography Retouching in Photoshop (Udemy.com)
Black and White Photography Post Production Revealed - Create Beathtaking Portraits in Photoshop
Created by: Marcin Mikus
Last updated October 2018
What you will learn
- You will be able to work comfortably in Photoshop
- You will be able to clean up images non-destructively
- You will learn dodge & burn retouching
- You will be able to work with masks on the Pro level
- You will be able to create luminosity masks and work with them
- You will have better understanding of lights on the image
- You will learn precise work with light on the image
- You will be able to adjust contrasts on the Pro level
- You will be able to create outstanding images
- You will be able to retouch images from start to finish
How it compares
Against the other 188 rated Udemy courses in Photoshop on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 37% of them
- Reviews181#105 of 189 by number of reviews
- Length3.8 hoursshorter than 55% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2018earlier than 72% of them
Course Description
Are you trying to get the perfect black and white images but still something is missing?
You are in the best place to start. Get your skills to the next level and create outstanding black and white images in Photoshop.
In this course i will show you something that no one did. I will teach you how to make your images dynamic, clean and full of contrasts.
I am professional fashion and beauty retoucher as well as photoshop educator with well over 5 years of experience. I work with magazines, tv, websites, fashion designers, hairdressers just to make sure their images look great.
One of my favourite and most outstanding images are those in black and white. But it’s not so easy to master it. I know the right way.
We will start simple from raw conversion and I show you to what you need to pay attention from very beginning. I will also show you how to clean up you image.
After that we will jump to fun stuf! I will show you how to get the perfect contrasts - I will show you how to adjust the contrasts by simply working with masks. I will show you how to create and work with luminosity masks as well as how to use color range to work with lights and shadows, how to get the perfect selections and get amazing control over the light - which is criuical for bw images. You will be true PRO in working with masks.
This is not everything. Because I will show you work to work even with most detailed things like lips, eyes, ahir or part of the warderobe. Except getting everything whats best from the masks and using power of channels, I will show you how to get even more contrasts by mastering Dodge & Burn Technique. You will see what areas can be dodge and burned to not ovedo or destroy your image!
At the very end of each section I will be showing you my final steps of work with camera raw software, which is very poerful in adjusting the final contrasts or working with the grayscale.
And all of this working with this beautiful portrait and beauty images!
Which is not everything because in the final sections we will jump to the fashion images and i will show you how to get the strong look and perfect balance between the black and white!
Do you want to push your photography and retouching to the highest. This is the course for You!
Enjoy!
Marcin
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
181 Reviews
Marcin Mikus
I'm open minded and creative photoshop retoucher and photoshop educator with over 7 years of experience in the field. I specialize mainly in fashion, beauty, commercial and portrait retouching. Choosing me as your teacher guarantee that you will get prefessional knowledge and practice from the real photoshop expert, who works every day with images that can be found in magazines, lookbooks and fashion campaigns and peoples social media.
I've been teaching Photoshop for the last seven years. I spend almost every day with photoshop and in time I was able to gain more and more knowledge about right ways of teaching Photoshop. After few Years I felt it's the right time to come out with Premium Courses on udemy. Where I can share some amazing ideas and make Photoshop fun!
During my retouching career I have been internationaly published in various Fashion and Beauty magazines like Nasty, Numero, Ellegant, L'oficiel and many more!
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Reviews
By Thomas E Kienzle on 1/24/2026
Instructor knows his subject but his accent and the way he speaks English is very hard to understand and sometimes I simply cannot make out what he is saying. English is not his first language and it shows. I'd give one or no stars to UDEMY for their absolutely awful software that is used for turning the lecture into a transcript. it can't figure out what he is saying so it fills in with words that are nothing but gibberish. UDEMY could do a whole lot better if they wanted to. Like getting better software.
By Enrique Camina on 1/25/2021
Desde los comienzos, paso por paso todo explicado con todo lujo de detalles. Gran cantidad de maneras de conseguir un b/n realmente genial con fuerte contraste. Personalmente he disfrutado cada minuto de este tutorial. La única pega son los subtítulos, ya que son demasiado genéricos y no corresponden mucho con una traducción correcta. Recomiendo sin lugar a duda el tutorial. Y si conoces el trabajo de Marcin Mikus y su modo de enseñar, sabes a que me refiero y su material es cremita.
By Zidane Nagi on 10/29/2020
Marcin mikus is really amazing when it comes to editing as he was the one who really taught me to do the PROPER way of dodging and burning. Thank u so much Marcin!!
By Lee A Gardner on 1/1/2020
Course content is fantastic and worth the cost. It has helped me further my goals in becoming an editor. To make the future courses better, every action need to be fully verbalized. When an action is performed make sure to verbalize what you are doing even if you have done it once already. People don't learn by telling them once, it's through repetition we learn. When doing an action make sure to let the students know why an action has occurred, such as, why is Photoshop making a particular selection when working in the Blue Channel's? Section 7: Master Black and White was needs improvement on this. I am a very quick learner when it comes to understanding, but I had to watch many times to understand what was trying to be communicated to me. Hopefully, the rest of the course get's better. Great content, but need to convey what is going on and why every time. Thank you for helping me become a better editor. Great Stuff!
By Aniket Singh on 1/25/2019
I liked how much I was able to get away from this course. If some images were attached in the resource section then it could've been helpful for us to practice and share. Nonetheless a great course.
By Thomas Schoenle on 8/5/2018
Sehr umfang- und detailreiche Retusche, oft werden mehrere Alternativen dargestellt. Absolut professionelle Ergebnisse
By Tom Ladwein on 2/16/2018
Der Kurs bringt nützliche Informationen, die auch anwendbar sind. Das Englisch des Dozenten ist oft schwer zu verstehen, und die Untertitel (vermutlich aus "Voice-to-Text" entstanden verwirren dann oft noch mehr als sie nützen. An manchen Stellen würde an sich eine etwas direktere und weniger verspielte Vorgehensweise wünschen, und klarere Begründungen für die einzelnen Schritte. Gewünscht hätte ich mir auch ein Eingehen auf Tools wie Silver Efex und z.B. ein paar Class Materials, um die einzelnen Schritte selbzt nachvollziehen zu können. Nichtsdestotrotz ein interessanter und nützlicher Kurs!
By Rana Zunair Riaz on 10/19/2017
You are lucky if you have grabbed this course. Study is not important. How teacher teaches you is also important. This instructor is great and surely you are gonna enjoy with his direct-to-point and in depth explaination
By Derek Bell-Jack on 10/12/2017
I am learning so much,even in the first viewing of these tutorials.obviously,i will go back over them to refine my knowledge base,but,opening so many doors for me with these editing techniques from marcin.
By Sylvia Hardy on 10/11/2017
I enjoyed and learned new information about how to get the best of creating black and white images thanks
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