Creative Retouching Essentials in a Day

Creative Retouching Essentials in a Day This interactive eBook is for you if you are beginning your journey into the professional Beauty & Portrait photography retouching world. You don't need to waste your time learning all the tools and panels Photoshop has to offer, if you only want to master or improve your photo  retouching skills. Our eBook will help you to get a clear understanding as to what tools you need to be familiar with,  and what to do with them to turn your photographs into works of art. In just three lessons you will  know all the necessary panels, tools, functions and essential photography and retouching information to prepare you to dive into the advanced Beauty, Fashion & Portrait retouching techniques. Moreover, you will learn how to fine-tune your Photoshop for peak performance, how to read and understand colors, what you need to know about color management, how to use custom brushes  for Beauty and Portrait photography, what essential keyboard shortcuts you need to know, and a  lot more. A few video tutorials will demonstrate the difference between Photoshop retouching  tools, the trickiest Blending Modes and Adjustment Layers concepts, and explain what's so great about Layers and Layer Masks and more. Click here to visit Beauty Retouching Education.    In the Bonus Goodie Bag you will find our Essential Actions (User Manual included), a  collection of Gradients and the Beauty Custom Brushes descriptions (URL for free download  included). We also added tons of useful materials in the "Getting Better Every Day" and  "Photography & Photoshop" (Glossary included) PDF booklets. Click here to visit Beauty Retouching Education.  LESSON I Setting Up For a Good Start:   Preferences & Memory Usage   Customizing Your Workspace   Image File Formats, Resolution, Size & Canvas   History Panel   Color Theory & Management LESSON II Painting & Retouching Tools:   Brush, Clone Stamp, Healing Brushes & Patch Tool   Default Tool Keyboard Shortcuts   Brush Opacity vs. Flow   Free Transform Tool   Selection Tools & Refine Edge Function   Liquify Tool   Photoshop Actions LESSON III Essential Photoshop Panels for Beauty & Portrait Photographers:   Layers Panel: Opacity& Fill, Handling, Grouping   Blending Modes   Layer Masks   Adjustment Layers BONUS MATERIALS:   Getting Better Every Day in Photography & Photoshop   Essentials Action set + Actions User Manual   Custom Beauty Brushes User Manual + URL (free download)   Collection of Gradients  HOW THIS EBOOK IS DIFFERENT?   Most of the educational retouching programs (DVDs and eBooks) that are out there these days  were created by professional retouchers, or famous photographers who teach their specific  retouching style. I have watched many such DVDs that try to beat each other in the amount of hours  of retouching they offer, and I fell asleep every time... just kidding, I didn't. But honestly, although  they are pretty expensive, I don't think I've ever watched one of those programs from start to finish.  Simply because I don't need all those hours of retouching in real time and chit-chatting to fill it up.  I am a busy person and I want specific knowledge and skills, I don't have 10 hours to watch a  retouching DVD, trying to fish out a couple of things that I don't already know.  Professional retouchers are getting paid for every of those 30-50 hours they spend on an image.  If that's what you want to do, than you definitely need one of (or all) those DVDs, because that's  what they teach. Hours and hours of retouching on 200-300% zoom. No doubt, they are masters of  what they do, but they are pro retouchers. I am a pro photographer and retoucher, I work super fast,  but I can still be proud of the images I deliver: www.juliakuzmenko.com. I create those photos from  start to finish, and I can tell you all about how to get to where I am at with my photography and  retouching today, just follow my lead. WHY THIS EBOOK IS SHORT?  If you are a working photographer like me, than most likely you want to learn how to deliver  excellent results very quick. There are always other important things for a pro photographer to  get done such as promoting him- or herself to get more work, or actually making money shooting.  More often than not, we professional photographers have retouching fees included into our  photography service charges, so the quicker we get things done and submit to our clients, the better  for us and our bottom line it is. No way I could afford to spend 30 hours retouching one image.  I bet, you are the same way and that's why you are here now.  I wanted to create an educational retouching program that is right on and brings to your attention  ONLY what is essential to learn to be able to turn Beauty, Fashion, & Portrait images into works  of art in post-production. And that is why the name of this eBook is "Creative Retouching  Essentials In A Day". It is well-structured and short enough (about 30 pages in total + a few  short videos in the chapters that require visual demonstration) to allow you to absorb and digest  everything you need to know before you move on to the advanced retouching for Beauty,  Fashion & Portrait photography within one day. WHY YOU NEED THIS EBOOK EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU ALREADY KNOW  PHOTOSHOP?  You don't know what you don't know. Even if you have been working in Photoshop for a couple  of years you may still be lacking some knowledge that will lead you to that break through in your retouching.   From my own teaching experience I know that a lot of photographers say: "Oh, I know  all the essentials - I've been doing it for 2-3 years!" And when we get down to the advanced part  of the course, I realize that they don't know what Layer Masks are, never used the Free Transform  tool or some of the Blending Modes, have no idea how to set target color in the Curves Adjustment  layer or never heard of other essential things like that. After reading this eBook you will have a  clear understanding as to what tools you need to be familiar with, and if you are not yet, than you  should practice working with them before you begin to learn Advanced retouching techniques.  Essentials are super important, and any professional retoucher will tell you that. Check out our "From Amateur to Pro in a Week" eBook, when you know that you are ready to learn  to become a Beauty retouching wizard.

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