Download tutorial assets here: https://www.nucly.com/3-beginner-tips-for-portraits-in-photoshop In this tutorial, we cover three tips for retouching portraits in Photoshop. And these are all beginner level tips—so no frequency separation. The first tip is how to retouch eyes to make them pop. The second is how to fix skin blemishes—including under the eye darkness. And the third is how to make your lighting a little more dramatic with dodging and burning—the nondestructive way. In the course of this we cover many of the most common tools you will use when retouching portraits in Photoshop, including the healing brush, patch tool, brush tool and more. You can check out my masterclass on color grading here: https://www.nucly.com/photoshop-color-grading-masterclass-sale?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=y28&utm_campaign=3+Beginner+Tips+for+Retouching+Portraits+in+Photoshop+Tutorial And get the Photoshop Basics for Photographers course here: https://www.nucly.com/photoshop-basics-for-photographers-sale?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=y28&utm_campaign=3+Beginner+Tips+for+Retouching+Portraits+in+Photoshop+Tutorial Referenced tutorials: • Setting Up Your Workspace - https://youtu.be/zetoHJtJgM8 • Frequency Separation - https://youtu.be/39N2oFqV25I * (Apologies for the dogs. They stopped whining as soon as we stopped recording. And got their walk.) — 00:00:25 - Summary of the three tips 00:01:23 - Camera RAW and Lightroom 00:02:58 - Retouching workflow 00:04:06 - Tip 1: Retouching the eyes 00:05:56 - Sharpening the eyes 00:07:31 - Tip 2: Fixing skin blemishes… and which to fix 00:08:18 - Spot healing brush 00:08:52 - Healing brush 00:10:03 - The Patch tool 00:11:01 - (“hidden feature”) 00:11:47 - Tip 3: Fix the lighting with dodging and burning 00:12:48 - The nondestructive method 00:13:41 - Women’s Makeup tutorials are your friend 00:15:55 - Soften the dodge and burn 00:16:22 - Bonus: Add glisten to lips 00:17:33 - Retreading the eyes 00:18:40 - Bonus: How to use Mask Density 00:20:02 - Retreating skin blemishes 00:22:2 - How to add a sharpness layer 00:23:49 - Summary — Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE and turn on notifications! And likes and shares help a lot too! Check out my full professional Photoshop training courses here: https://www.nucly.com/courses And all my asset packs here: https://www.nucly.com/tools — Follow me: Professional Training - https://www.nucly.com Blog - https://zevendesign.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/zevendesign Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/zevendesign 500px - https://500px.com/rikardrodin #Nucly

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