Rachel + Matt Korinek – Retouching Food Photography

Rachel + Matt Korinek – Retouching Food Photography

This course provides you with fundamental Photoshop retouching skills to create picture-perfect food that looks natural yet well polished and will help you deliver higher quality work to your clients.

• 5 EASY RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES
  Using these fundamental Photoshop retouching techniques, we’ll teach you the best tools to use to remove the ugly parts of an image, while keeping a natural look without losing texture or detail.
  You’ll discover how easy it is to produce commercial quality images for your clients.
• 30 TOOL & TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATIONS
  The key to creating a natural and seamless blend is having a few ‘go-to’ tools.
  Watch us use different tools on a range of images and situations to better grasp an effective retouching workflow.
• UNDERSTAND LAYERS + MASKING
  Work smarter, not harder, by getting savvy with how to best use layers and masks in Photoshop. Create small, editable files that use masks for effective and seamless corrections. Layer organisation will be your new strong suit.
  No more ‘no pixel selected’ pop-ups that prevent you from working.
• TOOL QUICK GUIDES
  To save you time, you don’t have to fast-forward through video after video to try and remind yourself which tools you need to use.
  Our Tool & Technique Quick Guides will keep you from feeling overwhelmed. You’ll know exactly which tool to use for the specific retouching you need.
• INTEGRATE WITH LIGHTROOM & CAPTURE ONE
  Stay organised by learning how to integrate a Photoshop retouching workflow with your RAW editor of choice, like Lightroom and Capture One. Create editable files you can go back and edit time and time again.
  If a client needs an adjustment, don’t start over from scratch.
• WORK ON RETOUCHING FILES
  Practice is important. Put everything you’re learning into practice by downloading and retouching example avocado images.

YOUR INSTRUCTORS
We’re a husband and wife team who’ve worked as freelance and commercial photographers for over 10 years. With international experience, we’ve worked for a range of small businesses to multi-million dollar clients.
Both of us have a degree in teaching and have taught in the education system. Teaching comes naturally to us and we’re excited to share our passion for retouching with YOU!
BEFORE
Retouching Food Photography

• Photoshop feels overwhelming, and it’s easier just to give up.
• You’re afraid professional retouchers will notice your mistakes.
• Images are rejected due to imperfections.
• Retouching that looks noticeably over-processed.
• Fear that ‘someone will zoom in close on that section’.
• Discarding winning images due to stray hairs (human and animal!).
• Spending days trying to fix objects that will annoy you forever.
• Paying others to retouch your images for you.
• Feeling embarrassed about telling a client you can’t do what they need.

AFTER
Retouching Food Photography

• Photoshop is a breeze and retouching takes minutes, not hours (or days!).
• Images are polished and flawless, yet natural.
• No one can tell your images are retouched.
• You’re able to provide a premium service to your clients and earn extra money.
• You get your business off the ground with confidence.
• Remove tiny hairs, reflections, oil spots and unwanted objects like it’s second nature.
• Clone the whipped cream topping off your hot chocolate like it’s nothing.
• Make all of your egg yolks match and even out colour.
• Smooth and remove indentations and dents from your burger buns.
• Extend backgrounds and build perfect shots with composites.

Here what you’ll get:

• FOUNDATIONS FOR RETOUCHING
• How Photoshop Works + Photoshop Workspace
• Tool Introduction + Shortcuts
• Layers, Masks + Brushes
• Creating Assets + Plates
• Saving Files + Integration with Lightroom or Capture One
• Tool Quick Guides
• REMOVING UNWANTED OBJECTS + REFLECTIONS
• Methods of Removal
• Removing Unwanted Objects
• Removing Reflections
• Create Floating Objects
• CREATING COMPOSITES
• Methods of Creating Composites
• Composite Photography – Building The Perfect Shot
• Composite Photography – Lighting
• Composite Photography – Aperture/DOF
• Composite Photography – Plate Technique
• Composite Photography – Create A Food Gathering
• REMOVING BLEMISHES + CLEANING TECHNIQUES
• Methods of Cleaning
• Retouching Blemishes – Cloning
• Retouching Blemishes – Healing + Patching
• Touching Up Backgrounds
• STRAIGHTENING + SHAPING
• Methods of Modification
• Local Free Transform
• Puppet Warp + Straightening
• Liquifying Subjects
• COLOUR + LIGHT ENHANCING
• Methods of Colour Enhancing
• Dodge + Burn Technique PS Action
• Changing Colour
• Retouching Colour
• Retouching – Dodge + Burn Technique
• PRACTICE SAMPLES
• Putting it all together with downloadable practice samples
• Chocolate Cake retouching demonstration – start to finish
• Whiskey Sour retouching demonstration – start to finish
• Avocado Flatlay retouching demonstration – start to finish

Get Rachel + Matt Korinek – Retouching Food Photography at tenco.pro