Retouching Headshots

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.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Retouching headshots
02 - Exercise files
03 - Setting up your workspace in Photoshop

1. General Cleanup

04 - Healing Brush
05 - Spot Healing Brush
06 - Patch tool
07 - Clone Stamp

2. Skin Smoothing

08 - Frequency Separation 2.0 explanation
09 - Frequency Separation 2.0 layer setup
10 - Using the Mixer Brush
11 - Blending color content
12 - Fixing texture problems
13 - How to remove wrinkles on clothing

3. Adding Dimension to Skin

14 - Adding depth and dimension to skin

4. Retouching Eyes

15 - Accentuating eye color
16 - Using custom brushes for eyes
17 - Using custom brushes to enhance irises
18 - Softening under the eyes

5. Retouching Lips

19 - Lip cleanup
20 - Add lip color

6. Finishing Touches

21 - How to sharpen a portrait

Conclusion

22 - Next steps

Retouching Headshots

Authors

Kristina Sherk