Welcome to the Retouching tutorials as a part of the Photoshop Art Series! In this beginner set of tutorials we'll learn ALL that you need to know, to be able to retouch human subjects and achieve great, fast results that YOU control and define. Theory, actions, practice and art-making will be ...

Following the three pillars of Photoshop (color, light and detail) we'll explore that if we understand how three dimensions are created based on those pillars, we can get fast great results in retouching human skin.

Frequency Separation is the most powerful technique in retouching. Separating the details from the colors in ANY digital image is vital to be able to enhance the art and present something spectacular to your client. Far better of a process than Ai retouching systems and can save you money when ...

Digital images capture the aspects of how we see and understand three-dimensions. We can enhance this to give this a further impact to the viewer using a very simple method of Dodge and Burn. My approach and layers used, give you far better control and adjustment capability than some of the cla...

Eyes are the window to the soul and generally where we want the viewer of our work to focus their attention on, first before anything else in the image. This simple four step set of layers will give you great control and great impact on the eyes of your subject.

We'll take all the aspects we've learned about retouching a portrait in Adobe Photoshop and apply it to a full edit of our image. You can work along side with David at each step of the process.

Once you've practiced fully retouching an image for a short time, you'll find that you are going faster and faster with the edits. Specifically knowing the output of the images, can save you a lot of time and get better results than what Ai can do.