Photo retouching

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A series of Adobe Photoshop tutorials focused on photo retouching techniques, offering insights into enhancing images through adjustments, corrections, and creative edits.

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AI-Powered Beauty Retouching Workflow for Faster Photo Editing

Modern beauty retouching combines traditional techniques with AI-powered tools to dramatically reduce editing time while maintaining professional quality. This workflow demonstrates how automated skin cleanup plugins can handle initial blemish removal, allowing you to focus on detailed work like hair refinement and dodge & burn enhancement. The approach balances efficiency...

Professional Beauty Retouching in Photoshop: Dealing with unusual problems

Professional beauty retouching requires a systematic approach that preserves natural features while addressing challenging imperfections. This comprehensive workflow demonstrates how to handle difficult skin conditions, uneven textures, and color inconsistencies that standard healing tools can't resolve. The process combines multiple frequency separation techniques with strategic dodging and burning...

Professional Beauty Retouching Workflow in Photoshop

Professional beauty retouching requires a systematic approach that balances technical precision with artistic vision. Kate Chibulya, an experienced beauty and fashion retoucher, demonstrates her complete workflow for transforming a creative makeup portrait while maintaining natural skin texture and elegant proportions. This comprehensive process covers everything from initial liquify adjustments and...

5 Essential Photoshop Techniques for Better Portrait Editing

Portrait editing often feels overwhelming, especially when trying to balance natural-looking results with professional polish. Many photographers struggle with where to start and which adjustments will have the biggest impact on their images without making them look over-processed. This tutorial covers five fundamental Photoshop techniques that will immediately improve any...

Mastering Skin Smoothing with Frequency Separation

In photography, achieving flawless subject skin can often be a challenge. Blemishes, uneven tones, and harsh shadows frequently detract from an otherwise great photo, leading to frustration for both photographers and subjects. This guide explores frequency separation, a powerful technique that allows precise skin retouching without sacrificing natural texture. Learn...

How to Professionally Remove Glare from Eyeglasses in Photoshop

Glare on eyeglasses is a persistent and frustrating problem in photography, often obscuring the subject's eyes and facial features. This common issue can detract from an otherwise perfectly composed portrait, making it appear unprofessional or distracting due to bright reflections. This tutorial demonstrates a robust hybrid approach to...

Photo Restoration: Combining AI with Photoshop for Optimal Results

Restoring old, damaged photographs can be a challenging endeavor. While many AI-powered tools promise to breathe new life into vintage images, they often fall short, either over-sharpening details, neglecting certain areas, or, most critically, altering the original likeness of individuals. This often leads to frustrating and uncanny results that strip...

Natural Makeup Enhancement in Photoshop

Beauty photography often presents challenges when makeup doesn't translate perfectly from the shoot to the final image. Environmental factors like heat, movement, and lighting can cause foundation to settle into fine lines, mascara to clump, or lip color to appear washed out in post-processing. Professional retouching techniques can...

Transform Your Photos with These Photoshop Masks

Masking in Photoshop is a powerful technique to isolate and enhance different parts of an image. However, many users find it complicated and time-consuming, often sticking to basic masks or selections that limit creative control. This can make photo editing feel frustrating and slow, especially when trying to achieve subtle...

Professional Freckled Skin Retouching Workflow in Photoshop

Retouching freckled skin presents unique challenges that require balancing flawless enhancement with natural character preservation. This comprehensive workflow demonstrates professional techniques for cleaning, refining, and color grading portraits while ensuring freckles remain the beautiful focal point they're meant to be. Watch the Video Follow along with this complete...

How to Create Natural Glow and Highlights Using Blend If in Photoshop

Creating natural-looking highlights and skin glow in portraits requires techniques that enhance existing light rather than adding artificial effects. The Blend If feature in Photoshop offers precise control over how highlights appear, targeting only the brightest areas of your image while preserving natural skin texture. This method works by selectively...

Create a Professional Color Grade in 90 Seconds in Photoshop

Cinematic color grading transforms ordinary photos into visually compelling narratives, creating mood, directing focus, and enhancing storytelling. This subtle yet powerful technique allows photographers and digital artists to infuse their images with the atmospheric depth and professional finish often seen in film. In this concise tutorial, you'll discover...

Fix Underexposed Photos Easily in Photoshop

Fixing underexposed photos in Photoshop is easier than you might think. This guide provides a straightforward approach to brightening dark images using the Camera Raw filter. The process is simple to follow, making it suitable for users of all skill levels. The tutorial focuses on step-by-step instructions. You will learn...

Add Patterns to Any Fabric in Photoshop

Digital artists and designers often face the challenge of integrating patterns onto fabric textures in a way that looks natural and convincing. Simply overlaying a pattern rarely achieves the desired realism, as fabric surfaces are rarely flat and uniform. Understanding how to make patterns conform to the unique contours of...

How to Edit Landscape Photos in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom

Landscape photography often presents unique challenges and opportunities for post-processing. Capturing the grandeur of nature requires not only a keen eye but also the ability to refine and enhance images to truly convey the scene's atmosphere and depth. This video tutorial demonstrates a comprehensive workflow for editing landscape...

5 Hidden Photoshop Tips for Real Estate Photography Editing

Elevating real estate photography requires precision in post-production. Applying specific Photoshop techniques can dramatically improve image quality and accelerate your editing process. Many powerful features remain underutilized, yet offer significant benefits for property visuals. This tutorial highlights five key Photoshop techniques, often overlooked, that are particularly effective for real estate...

Refresh Your Headshot with Photoshop on the Web

If you're looking to update your headshot, this presentation is an excellent choice. Qori guides you through the essentials of creating DIY headshots using Photoshop on the web. You will discover simple techniques for refreshing your image, including how to swap backgrounds and apply retouching. This resource is...

Curves vs Levels in Photoshop: Learn The Difference

Curves and Levels are two of the most powerful adjustment tools in Photoshop, but many users struggle to understand when to use each one. While both tools manipulate light and color information in similar ways, they offer different levels of control and complexity. Understanding their similarities and key differences will...

Generative Fill vs Clone Stamp vs Spot Healing Brush Photoshop Tools

Object removal in photo editing can be accomplished through multiple approaches, each with distinct advantages. Traditional tools like the Clone Stamp and Spot Healing Brush offer precise control without consuming AI credits or flagging images as artificially generated, while newer AI-powered options provide speed and automation for complex removals. Understanding...

Create Insane Details in the Eyes with Photoshop

In this tutorial from PiXimperfect, you will learn how to add remarkable details to eyes in Photoshop. The process begins with the use of an iris brush that allows you to create intricate highlights and shadows, enhancing the eyes' natural beauty. As you progress, you'll discover how...

How to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

Curves adjustment layers offer far more flexibility and control than traditional dodge and burn tools in Photoshop. This non-destructive method allows you to selectively lighten and darken areas while maintaining the ability to adjust intensity and modify your edits at any time. The technique uses layer masks with soft brushes...

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