Photoshop Retouching Masterclass

Do you want to learn an Advance Retouching Workflow from a Professional Expert? Are you ready to upgrade your skills and improve your work to the next level and find bigger clients? Then this Masterclass will help you improve your work to the top level of Photoshop Retouching.

Your instructor on this journey will be Samuel Zlatarev - an award winning portrait and beauty photographer and a High End Retoucher published by FStoppers, 1X, Dark Beauty Magazine, Elegant Magazine and other dozens of  creative content distributors around the world.

Samuel has an experience as a professional commercial retoucher and he was involved in projects for some of the biggest companies in the World like Mercedes, Audi, Adidas, FC Bayern, OTTO, Heine, Peter Hahn, Lacoste and others - companies worth billion of dollars in total and he is going to share his knowledge of Portrait and Beauty Retouching with you to apply it in your work.

This course will help you achieve results worthy of Global Quality Standards of Retouching by teaching you everything you need to know about Portrait and Beauty Retouching to improve your skills and become top specialist in your creative field and win bigger clients or start your company and start living your dream as an artist.

This course will lay down a solid understanding about the techniques used by the people working for some of the biggest retouching companies and will show you not only how to use the techniques but also the philosophy behind the techniques and why to do the things in a certain way to create a much greater visual impact.

The Photoshop Retouching Masterclass contains lessons from every stage of the retouching process and begins with the fundamentals and everything we need to get started and then we will gradually move towards full advance retouching on two completely different images from start to finish, where you will learn the full advanced retouching workflow to apply it in your work.

We will go through various retouching techniques, compare them and find out why some of the methods others teach you don't always work. Everything you will learn is the real process used by Samuel on his images to create the WOW Effect.
You will learn different techniques methods of work to deal with the problems, that every professional faces in his career.

You will also also get a BONUS lecture with the help of which you will learn how to create Black and White images and get results that cannot be done with any of the automatic tools or menus built into Photoshop.

We will talk about different types of images, compare different retouching techniques, compare different methods of splitting images in texture and color and working them separately, we will also look an advanced ways of selecting various parts of the images, talk about ways of manually create contrast in the images and much more.

We are very exited to share everything with you today, so let's get started right away with the first lecture.

• Final Video Presentation
• What does the course cover?
• Tablet VS Mouse - Hardware and what you need to know before getting started
• Opacity and Flow - Photoshop brush settings for professional retouching
• 8 bit vs 16 bit Images - Everything you need to know about image depth & quality
• Introduction of Dodge and Burn
• Comparison of Different Dodge and Burn Techniques
• Micro & Macro Dodge and Burn
• 7.Retouching Guidelines & Considerations
• Frequency Separation Techniques - Compare the old and the new techniques
• Luminosity Masks - an Advanced method of selecting parts of the image
• Exporting an Image using RAW image editing software
• Cleaning Workflow and image preparation
• Complete Deep Retouching of a Classical Portrait
• Complete Deep Retouching of an Artistic Beauty image
• BONUS Lecture: Black and White Image Processing