Retouching Headshots

Retouching Headshots

1h 54mGeneral2022-02-22

Authors

Kristina Sherk

Kristina Sherk

Photographer, Freelance Retoucher

Course details

In today's complex and changing workplace environment, your professional headshot is more important than ever before. In many cases, your headshot is your primary face at work: a digital representation of who you are—and not something you should take lightly. In this course, instructor Kristina Sherk walks you through the steps of retouching headshots in a way that preserves the natural appearance of your subjects.

Get tips on setting up your workspace in Photoshop so you’re ready for general cleanup. Explore retouching techniques for skin smoothing, adding dimension to skin, retouching eyes and lips, and adjusting color. Follow along with Kristina as she shows you how to sharpen your headshots so that they look more professional and beautiful, and more realistic, too.

Skills covered

Portrait PhotographyImage EditingPhotoshopPhotographyAdobeOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Retouching headshots
  • Exercise files
  • Setting up your workspace in Photoshop

General Cleanup

  • Healing Brush
  • Spot Healing Brush
  • Patch tool
  • Clone Stamp

Skin Smoothing

  • Frequency Separation 2.0 explanation
  • Frequency Separation 2.0 layer setup
  • Using the Mixer Brush
  • Blending color content
  • Fixing texture problems
  • How to remove wrinkles on clothing

Adding Dimension to Skin

  • Adding depth and dimension to skin

Retouching Eyes

  • Accentuating eye color
  • Using custom brushes for eyes
  • Using custom brushes to enhance irises
  • Softening under the eyes

Retouching Lips

  • Lip cleanup
  • Add lip color

Finishing Touches

  • How to sharpen a portrait

Conclusion

  • Next steps
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