Professional Retouching is complex business that many, even great photographers struggle. That’s why it is so important to learn this from the right people in the right way. I am Marcin Mikus, author of this course. I am professional retoucher specializing in Fashion, Beauty and Commercial retouching. My work can be seen in variety of fashion magazines worldwide. I know how to retouch fast and in the right way. That’s why I am the best person you could have to teach you lingerie and swimmwear retouching. Lingerie and swimwear are one of most desired types of photography - yet, one of the most difficult when it comes to retouching. Learning this the right way, puts you above the competition. For Photographers: Except retouching I am myself huge enthusiast of photography, that’s why I understand how time taking process is to organize session, shoot, and select images. And after all there are images you need to retouch and deliver! I know what means to retouch efficient and at the same time non-destructive and natural, creating great atmosphere and dynamic lights on the images! I will teach you how to process your Raw files and then teach you how to clean them up in photoshop - fast and natural. I will practice with you Dodge & Burn process in my special training lessons so you will not spend hours during the Dodge & Burn process. And what is most important, I understand how the lights and shadows work. I will show you how to adjust contrast and polish lights, howt o work selectively just on the model - not on the background. And of course color grading and skin tones. One of most important things in such a photography like lingerie and swimwear. It is your task to create amazing color composition. I will share knowledge on color theory, so you will know your color choices will be on point. You will know how to create desired skin tones, how to warm them up. Or how to work on background. Just to make sure - you deliver outstanding images! For Retouchers: This is my thing! I have been retoucher for a good years and I have been working with variety of photographers. I know how this works looks like, and I know what companies, agencies, or magazines require from images. I will teach you everything you will need to know to work as a retoucher. Every subject you might face during your retouching work is explained in this course! Course subjects: RAW Processing in Camera Raw as well as in Lightroom Image selection and adjusting images during raw processing Cleaning up lessons: skin retouching, hair retouching, background hair cleaning up, body hair retouching, clothes retouching, make up retouching Training lessons with retouching tools Introduction to masks and Dodge & Burn Training lessons for Dodge & Burn Full Dodge & Burn Process, explaining how to do it. How to build layers and customize Dodge & Burn bursh. Color corrections and fixing color shifts. Working with Lights and shadows selectively using luminosity masks. Extracting Model from the Background. Working with light on specyfic areas. Color Grading. Working selectively with color and skin tones. Skin Toning. Making final adjustements to the images. Liquifying images. Final touch ups for printing. Be a post production professional! Marcin

Join 2200++ students and learn how to perform product pictures retouching in Photoshop and join biggest freelance platforms! Latest: Now with two bonus lectures! Learn how to change background for transparent object and how to recolor grey products! This course is designed to give you all necessary tips and tools to edit product pictures in Adobe Photoshop. You may be completely beginner in Adobe Photoshop – we will discuss all tools and commands you need to know without any excessive information. If you are already familiar with Photoshop, but you are not sure how to perform product editing, this course will give you all clues you need. You may watch the entire course step by step, or you may watch lectures in any order. I built this course so that you can watch lectures independently from each other, starting with those you need the most. You may quickly return to any lecture in case you forgot something and would like to refresh it in your memory. After you finish this course you will be able to retouch product pictures in Photoshop and start working in this area. We will discuss the most popular websites where you can offer your services as a freelancer, such as Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer and others.

First of all, this course is designed for photographers and retouchers who want to improve their skills in hi-end retouching. And also it will be useful to all other photographers, because retouch techniques used in the course are suitable for any images where skin retouching is required. Due to the Frequency separation you can do hi -end retouching on beauty photos  or fix minor flaws in family or any other photos. Also I will show you a few tricks that can help you achieve better results and save your time. At your disposal 6 hours of video material and layered psd files of lessons.

Lifestyle Photography is one of the most pupular genre photography these days. And the reason for that is simple, Huge Social Media influencers in need for great images, as well as Countles, Lifestyle, Swimwear or lingerie Copanies exist on the market trying to grab their own piece of this huge market. One thing they all have in common is to have great images, and this is why I am coming to you this course. Whether you are photographer, or retoucher - in this course, I will give you all the important knowledge on how to process, retouch, and color grade your images in photoshop to make yourself and your customers fully satisfied. I am Marcin Mikus, Professional Retoucher and Photoshop educator with 7 years of experience in the field. Working wth fashion magazines, and on commercial campaigns. And o find the proof of it you can just find my portfolio. My retouching knowledge and experience is what makes me different from other teachers - in my courses - you get real world experience. In this course you will learn: 1. Processing RAW Images using camera RAW or Lightroom. You will know how to get the right colors at the start. 2.Everything about skin retouching. You will learn how to clean up image non destructively with retouching tools as well how to use additional techniques like Frequency Separation. How to use other filters to remove fine details like body hair and uneven skin. And what is most important you will learn Dodge & Burn retouching with Curves, which is only one technique that provides 100% non-destructive results. 3. You will learn how to create and work with layers masks till you achieve advenced knowledge on the subject. Understanding and creating masks will allow you to gain amazing control over the lights a shadows in adjusting contrasts. 4. I will teach you how to understand define color palette and understand color harmonies to do good color grading, and of course how to do funal touch ups to the images such as final touch ups and adjustements to colors, liquifying and adding subtle noise. 5. As a Bonus section we will work on studio lingerie images, where we will polish our knowledge, learn other additional techniques helping you to retouch lingerie images, Create a soft atmosphere by adjusting lights and color grading. Within this course you will get resources such as retouching actions, dodge & burn bursh and images to practice your skills and speed up your workflow.. Enjoy the course! Marcin

Featured Review: "Fantastic course. From setup Photoshop for quick workflow over the whole beauty retouching techniques to many tricks. Highly recommended from my side !" - Peter Leinfellner This course is for photographers who want master creative and efficient portrait retouching in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CC. If you would love to bring out the best in your images, this course is for you! Fully retouched images are now expected by clients and models. But most likely you don’t want to spend hours working in Photoshop but rather develop an efficient workflow that will enable you to finish images quicker, meaning you can get back to shooting your next project. In this masterclass, I will show you step-by-step the most important functionalities in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CC, so you can develop your images to their highest potential. You will learn: The best Adobe Camera Raw development processes. All important Photoshop tools, from skin healing tools to clone stamp to content aware fill. Skin softening, teeth whitening, tanning.. the list goes on! How to create the most amazing look for your subject: Subtle yet effective ways to sculpt and shape bodies. How to stylize your image to its fullest potential. How to use actions to streamline your workflow. Workflows that include natural light and studio light environments. You will learn to enhance your photos with the right adjustments of white balance, tonality and exposure, you will understand important methods to fix skin blemishes and apply softening but we will also look at tricky situations like fixing your backgrounds and how you can create actions to work super fast. After you have finished this video training course for Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CC, you will have mastered all the techniques to create stunning retouched portrait images that will wow your clients, and your models.

Hi there! Before you start the course I am sure you want to known more about your instructor - me. I am Marcin Mikus and I am Internationaly pulished fashion, commercial and beauty retoucher. I’ve been featured in Jute Magazine, Lucy’s, Lofficiel and many others. Except beaing retoucher I am also photoshop educator, with over 50k subscibres and over 5 milions views on youtue. And my premium courses were purchased by over 60 thousands students. So I am having high believes I am someone who can really teach you retouching. In this course I am sharing with you images taken by Ariel Grabowski, so you can follow everything step by step on the same images as me - you just need to download them. So… What you can get from this course? We are going to start very simple, from the raw conversion in Caprture One as well as I am going to show you how to do raw conversion in Camera Raw or aay other software. After this, we jump into photoshop where I teach you how to clean up the images easily, quickly and non destructive. You will learn dodge burn retouching which is the major technique you need to learn to retouch the skin. Ine the next step we will be working with shadows and highlights - the key to adjust contrast on the image. I will teach you how to get full control over your mask, to define shadows and highlights just on point! Of course we cannot miss color grading and lesson about how color harmonies works. All of this will be ended with final steps in photoshop and Camera Raw just to make sure image looks perfect! Over this course we will work on the two image examples, and to make it even better, i share with you my actions which going to help you automate your workflow. So, lets jump into this amazing experience together!

Do You want to turn Your bad images into good one, and good images into amazing one?You don’t want to spend countles hours on watching courses and getting tips You dont need? Do You want to get course that is straight to the point - what’s right, and whats not? Then, I am sure this course is for You. My name is Marcin, i am internationaly published fashion and beauty retoucher. And today I am coming to you with this amzing course on retouching essentials. I am going to teach you everything what's important about non-destructive retouching. I am not going to give You any shortcuts or tips about weird techniques. I am just going to tell You what i do, and what You should do to make Your images looks great. What will You get in this course? 1. I am going to show you how to do raw conversion to make your retouching easier - in camera raw, as well as in capture one! 2. I will show you how to clean up the image in non-destructive way - using just simple tools. 3. Probably most demanding part - I will show you how to do dodging & burning. Also I will deliver you actions which help you to speed up your worflow. 4.  I am goin to give You my best method for working with contrasts, shadows, and highlights to have full control on every detail. 5. I will show You how I work with colors - how to work selectively with certain areas like shadows highlights and midtons to adjust colors. 6. Final touches - my final steps to make sure your image - will look perfect. What else - resourses that supports your work in photoshop and exercise files. Lifetime acces to course, and my personal support. See You in the course! Marcin

Do You want to Learn, Portrait, Beauty, and Outdoor Retouching? You are in the right place. I am Marcin Mikus, Photo Retoucher and Photoshop instructor. For Years I have been exploring photoshop to finally settle in retouching area. I know how difficult is to find the right course where You can learn retouching for different kind of Photography - that’s why i came with this course where i cover different retouching with different images. In this course You will get over 80 lessons and 6 hours of content. What’s best - You will also get high quality raw images - so you can follow me and my retouching process, as well as practice retouching on Your own. And of course - great actions and other resources which allow You to speed up Your workflow! Don’t worry if you are beginner because we are going to cover whole process from very beginning till the final touch ups. I will show You how to do raw processing using camera raw as well as capture one. And also, if You are a little bit more advanced user, I believe You can find a lot of new informations on processing and retouching Your Images and color grading techniques. The course is separated from different sections, leading You from basic Portrait Retouching to Beauty and Outdoor Image retouching. 1. We will discover great software as capture one, I will show You pros and cons of this software of my choice for Raw Processing. Don't worry if You don't want to use capture one - I am also showing how to do Raw processing using Adobe Camera Raw. 2. We will be analysing each image before we start our retouching, so You will know what need to be done on specyfic image whether it's portrait, beauty or outdoor image. After that we will start retouching process - where I will show You the best tools for skin and hair retouching without any confusing techniques that might lead You in the worng directions. 3. One of most important retouching technique is dodge & burn. In this course we will truly master this technique! You will see how You should dodge & burn different images. How much need to be done on specyfic image - to not overdo or underdo Your retouch! I am not presenting You many different ways, I am choosing one - most effective to make Your retouch easy and comfortable. 4. Through the lessons I will teach You different methods working with lights and shadows so You can know what works best for any image! We will compare and see reall examples of applying contrasts to the Images. 5. Every single retouch will be finished up with final color corrections. I will show You most effective adjustment layers for color grading. How to work with specyfic color as well how to select specyfic area for Your color corrections - which is going to give You most satisfying results! And of course, You will get High Quality Raw Images, Actions, and other resources, so Your retouch will be fast and easy as never! If You want to become retoucher, or just retouch images as a hobby. This is Your chance, And I will see You - in the first lesson. Marcin

Retouching beauty images had always been a huge challenge for photographers and retouchers. I made this course to introduce you non-destructive ways of retouching that will allow you to retouch fast and create beautiful portraits that you may see on magazine covers. What is Professional Beauty Retouch? Professional retouching or so called High End retouching is most advanced form of retouching that require a lot of practice and patience. For many people, retouching beauty images might take hours - in this course I teach you how to not waste too much time and retouch fast and effective. In such a retouch it's very important to work non-destructively, which means to not destroy the skin texture, face features or color harmonies. In prefessional retouch we don't blur or soften skin, we use advanced techniques to make image clean and dynamic, at the same time preserving the skin texture. To make great beauty retouch, you need to use the right techniques, which allows you to save the time and get perfect results. Who am I? I am Marcin Mikus and I am professional retoucher with 6 years of experience in the field. I specialise in fashion, beauty and commercial retouching. Choosing me as your teacher guarantee that you will get prefessional knowledge and practice from the real industry expert, working every day with images that can be found in magazines, lookbooks and fashion campaigns. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What This Course is about? For many photographers one of the biggest challenge they face is retouching process and making images look professional - with the right skin retouch, contrasts and color. Getting the final look requires knowledge of retouching tools, light and color grading techniques. Yet, It doesn't have to be overhelming process once you know how to manage your work and use the right tools. I cover up all of the important subjects of retouching such as: RAW Processing - A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera. Raw files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor. In this course I show you how to work with the RAW files straight out of your camera. I will teach you how to process images in such a softwares like Camera Raw, Lightroom or Capture One. No matter which software you are using - you will find lessons for you! Clean Up - In this course I teach you how to clean up your images. And not only the skin! First of all you will learn such a retouching tools as healing brush tool, spot healing brush tool, patch tool and clone stamp tool. You will know how to clean up background, how to retouch skin, hair, eyes, lips and every other part of the beauty image you could think of! As a part of this section I will teach you some additional things as usage of filters that allow you to remove fine body hair within seconds. I will teach you how to use Frequency Separation in the right way to correct light imperfections. And I will teach you how to restore skin texture that we could loose during demanding tasks with skin retouching! Nails Retouching - Small part of clean up but how important. With beauty images we need to make sure every element of the image looks great. Thats why I will teach you how to create natural nail reflections on the image! Dodge & Burn Retouching - Dodging and Burning is only one Non destructive technique used in Retouching. Learning this technique brings your skills to the new level of retouching, and allows you to achieve non destructive results You can see in Beauty Posters or Magazines. In this course I teach you dodge & burn technique using curves - most common and most popular way to retouch using D&B technique! Curves are the only one tool that allows You to retouch whole image. I will introduce You to the terms like dodging and burning and You will know how to work with Your image on a micro level to retouch small imperfections of the skin by controlling lights and darks. Contrasts, Lights and Shadows - Wrong is thinking that to get better perspective of the image we need to do global Dodge & Burn. It could lead us to destroing natural face features. Thats why in this course I teach you how to create precise masks that allows you to work selectively on increasing highlights and shadows to get the perfect contrats. I will show you few tricks that teach you how to get special look of the image, weather you look for something more dramatic or more of a film camera look. Color Grading - One of the most important part of retouching - often underrated. Now knowing how to work with colors we can easily destroy our final outcome of the image. Thats why in this course I teach you not only about color grading tools and adjustement layers but also about theory behind color harmonies. After that we will do very subtle color grading on our images working with tones and saturation values of the image. Final Touch Ups - At the end of each retouch we want to make sure that our images looks perfect, this is where we polish our colors, lights and saturation values. In this section you will know how to do each of this things as well as liquify image and add noise in non destructive way. And the best part of this course is that it comes with resources valued at over $500! I provide to you high quality images to practice taken by amazing fashion and beauty photographer Dominika Jarczyńska. Shot in professional studio, with professional model and make up artist! And all of this specially for this course! Except the images you will get my retouching actions that will be big help in your retouching process and let you get the things done much quicker! Enjoy the Course! Marcin

Photoshop opens the door to endless creative possibilities by empowering you to easily make multiple, selective adjustments using layers. Luminosity masks provide you with a greater level of control and the ability to quickly and efficiently perform advanced adjustments.This course teaches you how to approach your photo editing workflow in a comprehensive, non-destructive manner. You will benefit from expert insights and pro techniques that will elevate your work with lighting and color to a new level of mastery and impact. Sharpen Your Skills Create Pixel-Perfect Masks By the end of the course, you’ll confidently be able to create a full set of luminosity masks with the Photoshop Actions provided, or, if you prefer, create them manually. Make Dramatic & Seamless Luminosity Adjustments Using luminosity masks to introduce evoking, elaborate lighting effects, you’ll be able to seamlessly add mood and depth to your images — for stunning results. Devise a Non-Destructive Workflow Learn how to combine masks and adjustment layers to achieve your creative vision and maintain a high level of flexibility. Create in no time alternative versions of one photo, or revisit your artwork in the future to bring new ideas to life with a few strategic adjustments. Enjoy Powerful Color Grading You have unique ideas about color — luminosity masks help bring your wildest concepts to life. With luminosity-based, pixel-perfect selections, you can try original color combinations and always achieve natural-looking results. Injecting a specific color into selected luminosity range has never been easier. Want to add to your shadows a hint of blue? With luminosity masks you can achieve this and much more in just in a few seconds.