Welcome to a New Level of Retouching

You’ve made it this far, then you certainly know your stuff. Together, we can start expanding beyond basic Photoshop Tools and concepts. This Intermediate Course on Adobe Photoshop CC will look inside image corrections in ways you never have before.

Great Photography means more than knowing the tools that Photoshop has to offer. It’s about getting your hands dirty and experimenting. It’s about real world problems and solutions. This class incorporates much more “how and why” than a basic class can. Because I introduce many tools beyond Photoshop (like various HDR Software and other Plug-Ins), you will know more about photo retouching than most highly paid professionals.

 

On the front end of the project, I was not even sure if I could complete the task to anyone’s satisfaction. Everyone else that showed up at the shoot was a talented professional, and I had to bring my “A” Game. Because of the intermediate course I had taught previously, I was able to achieve effects even I did not think were possible. HDR, RAW Processing, and Smart Objects were at the core of what made this image possible.
 

What You Will Gain

When I first taught this course, I threw together a few solid concepts, and started to teach it to a few students. What became obvious very quicky, is that they knew a lot. Intermedite students question the teacher, and keep them on their feet. In the following year, I had collected many of the most complex, and secretive tips, tricks, and settings rarely to have ever been seen. I want to share new skills with you. I want to challenge you. I want to fill the gaps in your knowledge, and make you better than ever before.

This Phtooshop Course for Retouchers is targeted squarely at people who feel comfortable with Photoshop, but know there is more to learn. If that sounds like you, then perfect. We will have intelligent discussions about tricks and techniques. We will look at things from a technical and an artistic eye. It is not all about how to use the tools—much will be conceptual and what-if’s. Expand your horizons; you’ll be happy you did.

Yes, I can teach you things you never considered. If I couldn’t, this course would have had a very short life span. But it is still here, and so far, everyone who has taken it has been very pleased. I guarantee it will be worth your time.

 

What To Expect With This Course

• Discover the most complex solutions to retouching problems
• Gain access to every golden nugget of Photoshop goodness I have ever found
• Develop a proper Workflow for juggling multiple clients.
• Build your retouching skills, and release your artistic vision
• Understand Color Theory and Tonal Enhancements
• Recognize the flaws in your retouching, and learn how to correct them
• 10+ hours of class will engulf you in the topic. I am not boring, and keep you engaged.
• 100+ Page eBook with detailed notes on the topics covered during class

 

 

Photoshop Schedule

This course will cover the most important points that a Photo Retoucher needs to know, to create perfect images. Here’s a break-down of some of the topics that we’ll be covering together.

Week #1

• Digital Fundamentals Revisited – Designed to fill in the key information that may still be a gap in your training. The goal here is that we will all start off on the same page, no matter what your background. This goes into a deeper explanation of resolution, bit depth, tonal range, color modes and color spaces.

• Tools and Palettes Expanded – I have looked high and low for the most obscure topics I can teach about. We will go under the hood, and discover many items off the beaten path. There are 5 different ways to do everything in Photoshop, so let’s talk about them.

 

Week #2

• RAW Processing and HDR– Let’s go further into what is possible in Adobe Camera RAW and HDR (High Dynamic Range). Between Lightroom and Camera Raw, it is now possible to have half your image retouching already completed before you even open the image in Photoshop. It is quite amazing what we can achieve these days in ACR. For the HDR part, I will show you how I extract lost information using specialized software, then combine the missing pieces back together with Photoshop in a way that looks completely seemless.

• Beyond Cloning and Touchups – Here, it is about learning how to fool the eye into believing the unbelieveable. Being able to take the tiniest sliver of detail, and replicating it across large gaps within an image. Painting and sculpting within Photoshop are some of the ways a professional will separate themselves from being “merely adequite”.

 

Week #3

• Advanced Masking Techniques – Assuming you know how to create a selection using quickmask, this class will be perfect for learning the tricks behind some of the most complex masks you could possibly hope to create. There is nothing simple about this class, it is all top shelf techniques here.

• Compositing – Often requested is an introduction to compositing multiple images together. How to replace a sky, background, or a person’s head are all common requests from photographers and their clients. Together, we will replace several different items, and I will show you how to do it in a seemeless way, so that no one will know that you did anything at all.

 

Week #4

• Color Correction Mastery – We will dig in deep to find out how to properly wield all the Color Correction tools available to you. And there are a lot. For example, how many different ways can you think of, to change the color of a shirt? I will run down the list of all the ways that came to my mind, and cover the stregths and weaknesses of each approach. We will go further into Color Spaces and Profiles, as well as Soft Proofing and Rendering Intent. We’ll discuss how to properly calibrate your monitor with your printer. We will also go over tricks that will help you uncover your best prints ever. Many different topics are planned for class.

 

 

 

Testimonials:

	Paul Villacres – Intermediate Week 4:
	John Venter – Intermediate Week 4:
	“One of the good things about doing an intensive course like this over a number of weeks in quick succession is that it has really made me focus on it. I found the course very informative, and it is already changing a number of things I am doing when post-processing my images, as well as generally increasing my understanding and confidence in using Photoshop.” – Ginny Campbell
	“I would say it’s more than worth it. And John definitely knows Photoshop inside and out. And what he doesn’t know, he can discover. Yeah, online tutorials can still be helpful, but they can’t replace this, and you’ll get a whole new level of understanding on how to even extract value from the online stuff after taking a live course!!!!!” – Robert Henard

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Investment—Professional Training at Amateur Pricing:

In the end, it boils down to this: If this seems like too much, for a complete Photoshop Course, it’s not. If it seems like such a steal, that’s because it is.

I just can’t see charging you that much. I do not have all the overhead of an overpriced school. They need to pay rent, instructors, office personel, etc… I don’t.

Please note that while all written material for this course is completed, only about half of the videos are. Because there was not a high demand for this level of training, I needed to test the waters before I could invest the amount of effort that would have into completing this. As I am now back to rebuilding this website, let’s see how far I can go. Please contact me if you have interest in this course.

Have questions? You can reach me at 203-551-9684, my name is John.
You can also email me at info@theartofretouching.com

 

Video Time: 10+ hours
Guarantee: 30-day No Hassle Refund