This 3-hour online retouching course is designed for amateur and professional photographers, who would like to significantly improve their portrait & beauty retouching skills, break out of their old habits and learn new tools, tricks and techniques.

Your Tutor:    Julia Kuzmenko McKim | www.juliakuzmenko.com
Number of sessions:    1 (one)
Session duration:    3-4 (three to four) hours
Online classroom:    Webex online meeting room
Class schedule:   We no longer offer group classes, check out our retouching eBooks that replaced them
Class times:    Mon - Sun, check your time here: World Clock
One-on-One classes:   Please contact us to schedule your class

Price:   One-on-One Full Course $475.00 USD
Payment arrangements:     We accept PayPal & Credit Card payments.
You can pay for your class at the bottom of this page.

You will receive our "Creative Retouching Essentials in a Day" interactive eBook upon your payment to prepare you for the world of high end retouching for pro photographers. Please make sure to read it carefully, so that it is easier for you to better absorb and comprehend all the techniques you will be taught in this advanced course.

Your spot will be reserved after 100% of the payment is received.

Class Projects and Objectives:

This course consists of two parts:

 Self-preparation: "Creative Retouching Essentials in a Day" interactive eBook before the scheduled session

 Advanced Beauty, Portrait & Fashion Retouching for Pro Photographers course (3 hours) online one-on-one with Julia Kuzmenko McKim

Our eBook is designed to prepare you for the advanced second part and make sure you are familiar with all Photoshop tools and panels that are used in professional retouching. You will learn all the essential tools, panels and keyboard shortcuts that a beauty & portrait photographer needs to know, use and master. It is very important that you've got a good grasp of the basics before you dig deeper.

In the second session you will learn how to use them in direct ways and in ways that you wouldn`t imagine they could be used. Julia teaches the tricks and techniques that she uses in her own workflow every day. She explains and demonstrates all the techniques she has developed and learned over the years.

Whether you are a novice or experienced photographer, a designer or artist, you will know how to perform digital miracles on your portraits upon completion of this course.

The "Creative Retouching Essentials in a Day" interactive eBook covers:

Customizing your workspace, memory usage and preferences

File formats, Resolution & Color Management

Altering image size, Image interpolation

Free Transform tool

Selection tools

Photoshop panels: Layers, History, Adjustment layers, etc.

Painting & Retouching tools that Portrait Photographers use, how they should and what they shouldn`t use them for: Cloning tool, Healing brushes & Patch tool, etc.

Layers: Blending modes & Opacity, Masking

Adjustment layers: ways of applying & what works best; Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Gradients, Selective Colors

Liquify Filter

Essential keyboard shortcuts and much more.

 

The actual one-on-one Advanced Beauty, Portrait & Fashion Retouching for Pro Photographers session covers:

Basic editing; color and exposure correction methods and techniques

Aesthetics of Beauty retouching

Cleaning skin retaining texture

Eyes, teeth, stray hairs - retouching all leaving the impression it hasn't been touched at all

Glowing skin & arresting eyes

Altering forms, slimming techniques

Creative color grading techniques

Finalizing images, preparing for submission

Efficient workflow of a Beauty, Fashion & Portrait photographer: shooting, downloading, archiving your work.

I won`t waste your time or mine filling up our class with generic information about tools that I myself never use - there are tons of Adobe Photoshop books and online classes for that. I only teach the tools and techniques I use every day working on my and my clients' images. I never stop learning new tricks and improving my skills, and I will make sure to revise and improve the class program as I progress and discover new techniques.    - Julia Kuzmenko McKim -