Retouching for Fashion and Beauty

Please email us if you would like to register your interest for future dates, or if you would like to be added to a waiting list for a full course.

 

Course description

Fashion and Beauty Retouching is an area that requires technical skill, but also has scope for adding your own creative flare. The course will teach you step by step the processes used within the fashion and beauty industry, from organizing and structuring a workflow to thinking about the overall look of the image and the final creative touches.

Beginning with initial considerations such as cleaning up the image, and restructuring areas. We will go through the processes of colour correcting skin, and altering the lighting on the skin. Many of these processes will be built on core techniques such as using global adjustment layers in combination with masking, and you will learn how to apply them differently for each task, making informed decisions about the effect it will produce, and what is required to fulfill a brief.

You will be able to get creative with applying make up, and making enhancements such as brightening eyes, and sculpting brows. Skin softening using a high pass filter is also one of the final considerations. The most fun is often to be had at the end, bringing the image together with final colour changes, changing a background and applying filters to the whole image.

For further information or to book over the phone, please call us at the office on 020 7729 1936.

 

Course Content

Techniques used

Masking

Adjustment layers

Selective colour adjustment

Selections

Layer blending modes

Dodge and Burn

Basic cleanup and restructuring

Background cleanup

blemish removal

Hair tidy

Colour correction and removing skin redness

Liquefying and restructuring

Make up and skin

Applying colour to skin

Adding highlights

Contouring with curves

Increasing eye lashes

Brightening eyes and teeth

Changing eye colour

Skin softening using a high pass filter

Getting creative

Changing the background

Changing the overall lighting

Creative colouring

 

Requirements

Laptop with Adobe Photoshop and Bridge installed (version CC / CS6 / CS5 / CS4)

Required Photoshop Skills

Prior to taking this course, you are also required to have the following Photoshop skills:

Using the selection tools

Creating new layers. Using selections to create layers, and cutting out from selections

Familiarity with the layers panel (turning layers on and off and shuffling them up and down)

Making image adjustments using levels, curves and hue/saturation

Using the crop tool

Changing the image size and the canvas size

Making transformations

Saving files and an understanding of different file formats

If you are not up to this level we recommend you take our Photoshop Foundation – Level 2 course first, or for £239 you can get the Retouching for Fashion and Beauty course plus a one hour refresher session. (£299 if an evening course) For further guidance, please call the office on 020 7729 1936.

 

Don't have your own laptop?

If you don't have your own laptop then there's no need to worry. You can hire one of our Mac laptops for £25 per day. Send us an email for more details - info@photographycourselondon.com

Please note our classroom is on the first floor with no lift. If you are less-abled or have any concerns please contact the office.

 

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