Learn the foundations of great beauty & fashion creative Retouching Essentials
You can become a master retoucher, but you need great foundations first.
Newbies oftentimes can’t distinquish between what’s good or bad, which causes them to make the same mistakes over and over again. Accelerate your learning curve by learning from someone who knows what they’re talking about.
Creative Retouching Essentials in a Day is an interactive e-book by pro retoucher Julia Kuzmenko. It includes video, photos, and text to help you easily learn the basics of fashion & portrait retouching. This information is crucial to launch you into more advanced retouching topics.
Creative Retouching Essentials Course Highlights:
- How to fine-tune your Photoshop for peak performance
- How to read and understand colors
- Awesome video tutorials embedded in the guide
- The essential tools that every retoucher needs to use in Photoshop
- The difference between several Photoshop tools
- Why and how you should use custom brushes for retouching
- Essential keyboard shortcuts for a faster workflow
- What’s so great about using layer masks?
- How to understand the tricky blending modes
- How and why to use adjustment layers
Interactive Guide Contents
Setting Up For a Good Start
- Preferences & Memory Usage
- Customizing Your Workspace
- Image File Formats, Resolution, Size & Canvas
- History Panel
- Color Theory & Management
Painting & Retouching Tools
- Brush, Clone Stamp, Healing Brushes & Patch Tool
- Default Tool Keyboard Shortcuts
- Brush Opacity vs. Flow
- Free Transform Tool
- Selection Tools & Refine Edge Function
- Liquify Tool
- Photoshop Actions
Essential Photoshop Panels
- Layers Panel: Opacity& Fill, Handling, Grouping
- Blending Modes
- Layer Masks
- Adjustment Layers
Bonus Materials
- Essential Beauty Actions set + Actions User Manual ($69 value)
- Getting Better Every Day in Photography & Photoshop
- Custom Beauty Brushes User Manual + URL (free download)
- Collection of Gradients in this Creative Retouching Essentials Bundle






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