With a plan, processed image, and expectations, move into retouching for a Beauty Portrait. Follow retoucher, Patrik Naik, learning keyboard shortcuts and best practices to quickly and effectively retouch skin. Use the healing brush and clone stamp tool, work methodically and with precision to create perfect, desirable skin tone for the genre. Listen as Patrik explains his approach to specific targeted areas of facial structure and features. Work on the primary blemishes and distractions, refining each pass of retouching to more targeted and smaller details. Learn the reasoning behind the technique to develop a natural instinct for the highest quality, client demands.
With the skin cleanup complete, transition to creating fantastic, even skin tone. Leverage the power of actions while understanding the helper layers, to create textured and dream like aesthetic. With the macro level details covered, focus on how to control the micro level details, in an industry...
Examine the pros and cons of using frequency separation in your skin retouching workflow. Run the action, examine the results across three different processes. Define the limitations and effects on texture, anatomy and overall tone. Develop an approach to retain dimension, color, texture and beau...
Skin for beauty portraits requires time and patience with attention to detail. Having completed the initial cleanup and multiple passes to create even tone, texture, and overall dimension, shift your focus to color. Work in a corrective process that then shifts to a creative tonal process. Follow...
