Retouching and Color Correcting Photography Portraits

Get expert tips for fixing or enhancing skin using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

Introduction

• Learn to retouch skin quickly and efficiently

1. Lighting for Skin

• How lighting affects skin
• Lighting to maximize or minimize texture

2. Settings and Workflow

• Settings for Lightroom
• Settings for Photoshop
• Color management and non-destructive retouching
• Global and local adjustments

3. Adjust Color in Lightroom and Photoshop

• Introduction to color
• How to understand histograms
• Lightroom auto color correction
• Lightroom color correction with Temp and Tint
• Lightroom color correction with Tone Curve
• Lightroom color correction with HSL
• Set black and white points in Photoshop
• Skin color by numbers in Photoshop
• Brighten or darken skin with Photoshop's Channel Mixer

4. Retouching Skin

• Tone down distracting features in Lightroom
• Remove acne and scars in Lightroom
• Remove acne and scars in Photoshop
• Even out skin color with Photoshop
• Soften simple wrinkles in Lightroom
• Soften more difficult wrinkles with Photoshop
• Fix simple hotspots with Lightroom
• Fix complicated hotspots with Photoshop

5. Adjust Different Parts of the Body

• Eye swap
• Head swap in Photoshop
• Liquify filter to adjust body or facial features

6. Finishing Touches

• Smoothing skin in Lightoom
• Blend skin tones in Photoshop
• Smoothing skin texture in Photoshop
• Add makeup in Lightroom

Conclusion

• Next steps