Photoshop for Photographers: Portrait Retouching with Chris Orwig

In this course, photographer, author, and teacher Chris Orwig details the tools every photographer needs to retouch portraits to make them look their best while remaining authentic. The course includes an overview of the retouching process and how to develop a plan for a retouching project.

After exploring techniques to improve the overall photo, Chris shares his techniques for reducing wrinkles, enhancing eyes and other facial features, improving hair, and retouching makeup. The course concludes with a look at retouching skin and reshaping portions of a portrait using transformations, the Warp tool, and the Liquify filter.

Topics include:

• Using selections and cloning to remove small distractions


• Removing lint


• Improving skin


• Removing tan lines


• Correcting tone with Curves and masking


• Burning and dodging


• Reducing wrinkles


• Enhancing eyes


• Whitening teeth


• Fixing flyaway hairs


• Adding and changing makeup


• Softening and adding a glow to skin


• Reshaping the body subtly