Description
Go pro with industry-standard knowledge & practices
Who Is this Course for?
Anyone with basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, interested in mastering professional beauty or portrait retouching.
Pro-level skin retouching is required for any genre of professional photography that involves images of people, such as beauty, fashion and portraits.
This course is for photographers, retouchers, graphic designers, and anyone interested in high-quality beauty and portrait retouching. If learning pro-level retouching is your goal, mastering Dodge & Burn is non-negotiable – it’s the cornerstone of professional retouching.
While the concept of Dodging and Burning is quite simple, quality implementation requires a good degree of knowledge and practice.
In these lessons, we demonstrate what makes D&B such a powerful tool for skin retouching in the context of portraits, beauty, and fashion photography.
🎁 Bonus: Downloadable custom actions, brushes, and practice images are included.
🔴 By the end of this course, you will have a great understanding of the technical aspects of Dodge & Burn and will be able to confidently use it in your work.
📲 Continue learning anywhere via Kajabi app on your mobile devices.
Course Purpose & Promise
In this course, we take a deep dive into one of the most important techniques in professional-level retouching known as Dodging and Burning (D&B).
This technique is essentially a manipulation of the luminosity of pixels within your image. On a localized, macro level, it is done to create an appearance of an even, smoother surface of skin, fabrics, and other elements, while preserving delicate textures. On a broader scale, we use it to enhance visual depth, adding volume to your two-dimensional image.
Throughout the course, we look at a variety of practical examples and go beyond luminosity adjustments to demonstrate how to overcome color issues that may arise in the process as well.
Although D&B is considered a fundamental tool for retouchers, this is not a beginner course and requires some basic Photoshop knowledge. With that in mind, we share all the necessary layer and brush settings, so you can immediately apply these concepts to your work.
What You Get:
This course is designed to guide you through every nuance of the Dodge & Burn technique.
Throughout the course, you’ll gain hands-on experience with professional workflows used in the industry and learn:
- The underlying theory behind Dodging & Burning and its application in retouching;
- The ins and outs of various Dodge & Burn methods and when to use them for best results;
- Exactly how D&B layers are set up for various D&B methods;
- And finally… How you can make the Dodging & Burning phase of your retouching workflow faster and easier.
We also encourage you to install our custom actions and brushes for your convenience and use the included images for practice.
🔴 By the end of this course, you will understand the technical aspects of this technique and will be able to use it confidently.
What Is Included & Bonus Materials
Immediately after your purchase, you will have access to the streaming videos and downloadable materials in your Course Library (login details provided in an automated email):
- Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- Format: Streaming
- Access: Lifetime
- Duration: Over 3 hours
- Practice Files: Beauty images photographed by Michael Woloszynowicz, Julia Kuzmenko McKim, and Anita Sadowska
- Bonus Materials: Custom Actions + Custom Brushes, and additional non-beauty practice files.
🎁 Bonus: Each course comes packed with valuable bonus materials, practice beauty images, pro insights, tips and guidance to accelerate your learning progress.
One of the images used in the course, photographed by Michael Woloszynowicz.
Course Outline & Topics
Lesson 1: Introduction to Dodging and Burning (45+ mins)
- The underlying theory behind D&B, how it works, why it is so important, and how it compares to other retouching techniques;
- The elements of an image: Hue, Saturation & Luminosity;
- The main types of D&B;
- Tools & layers for D&B work.
Lesson 2: Corrective Dodge & Burn (40+ mins)
- Corrective D&B: Setup, workflow, and the process;
- A practical example;
- Assignment #1.
Lesson 3: Global Dodge & Burn (45+ mins)
- Contouring: Strategy, practical implementation, and process;
- Assignment #2.
Lesson 4: Color Correction & Final Touches (50+ mins)
- Identifying and correcting color issues;
- Various methods for correcting color shifts;
- Fixing “Peach Fuzz” and final color corrections.
Course Purpose & Promise
In this course, we take a deep dive into one of the most important techniques in professional-level retouching known as Dodging and Burning (D&B).
This technique is essentially a manipulation of the luminosity of pixels within your image. On a localized, macro level, it is done to create an appearance of an even, smoother surface of skin, fabrics, and other elements, while preserving delicate textures. On a broader scale, we use it to enhance visual depth, adding volume to your two-dimensional image.
Throughout the course, we look at a variety of practical examples and go beyond luminosity adjustments to demonstrate how to overcome color issues that may arise in the process as well.
Although D&B is considered a fundamental tool for retouchers, this is not a beginner course and requires some basic Photoshop knowledge. With that in mind, we share all the necessary layer and brush settings, so you can immediately apply these concepts to your work.
What You Get:
This course is designed to guide you through every nuance of the Dodge & Burn technique.
Throughout the course, you’ll gain hands-on experience with professional workflows used in the industry and learn:
- The underlying theory behind Dodging & Burning and its application in retouching;
- The ins and outs of various Dodge & Burn methods and when to use them for best results;
- Exactly how D&B layers are set up for various D&B methods;
- And finally… How you can make the Dodging & Burning phase of your retouching workflow faster and easier.
We also encourage you to install our custom actions and brushes for your convenience and use the included images for practice.
🔴 By the end of this course, you will understand the technical aspects of this technique and will be able to use it confidently.
What Is Included & Bonus Materials
Immediately after your purchase, you will have access to the streaming videos and downloadable materials in your Course Library (login details provided in an automated email):
- Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- Format: Streaming
- Access: Lifetime
- Duration: Over 3 hours
- Practice Files: Beauty images photographed by Michael Woloszynowicz, Julia Kuzmenko McKim, and Anita Sadowska
- Bonus Materials: Custom Actions + Custom Brushes, and additional non-beauty practice files.
🎁 Bonus: Each course comes packed with valuable bonus materials, practice beauty images, and guidance to accelerate your learning progress.
One of the images used in the course, photographed by Michael Woloszynowicz.
Course Outline & Topics
Lesson 1: Introduction to Dodging and Burning (45+ mins)
- The underlying theory behind D&B, how it works, why it is so important, and how it compares to other retouching techniques;
- The elements of an image: Hue, Saturation & Luminosity;
- The main types of D&B;
- Tools & layers for D&B work.
Lesson 2: Corrective Dodge & Burn (40+ mins)
- Corrective D&B: Setup, workflow, and the process;
- A practical example;
- Assignment #1.
Lesson 3: Global Dodge & Burn (45+ mins)
- Contouring: Strategy, practical implementation, and process;
- Assignment #2.
Lesson 4: Color Correction & Final Touches (50+ mins)
- Identifying and correcting color issues;
- Various methods for correcting color shifts;
- Fixing “Peach Fuzz” and final color corrections.
