The Essential Elements of Retouching

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• Join Victor as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
• We are in the business of selling images, and this should inform your approach to retouching.
• Your approach to your raw conversion is based upon the goals of your project.
• You can create a non-destructive workflow by properly structuring your layers.
• False color is very important, and it’s origins come from the movie industry to help you retouch your photos.
• There will often be instances where some destructive editing has to be done, so your approach to when in your workflow it is done becomes very important.
• Cleaning up the texture in a portrait is an important step in the overall workflow.
• The first step is a global tone adjustment using adjustment layers.
• Dodging and burning is the classic local tonal adjustment made by retouchers.
• Colors are important for unifying the image. Adjusting hue and saturation will have a big impact.
• From adding contrast to sharpening, there are a number of techniques you can apply to complete your retouching process.

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