In this Photoshop tutorial we are going to take our nearly finished image and make a few color tweaks to make certain features pop. After that, pat yourself on the back cause you have made it through the entire Professional Retouch Series!

If you have completed the entire series, then you should have results like that seen below. We started with the image on the left, and the image on the right is our final product. Great job!

Now, if you haven’t watched the previous parts to the PPR Series, then please catch up by watching the prior videos below:

Part I – Adobe Camera Raw Editing and Importing into Photoshop
Part II – Learning and Setting the Healing Brush Presets
Part III – Healing Blemishes and Unwanted Detail
Part IV – Diminishing Eye and Age Lines
Part V – Correcting Skin Tone Shifts and Tan Lines
Part VI – Softening Skin When Necessary
Part VII – Retouching the Eyes
Part VIII – Cleaning Up Stray Hair and Other Detail
Part IX – Enhancing and Sharpening Image Details
Part X – Final Color Adjustments

Note: These images have been provided to the SLR Lounge users curteousy of Lin and Jirsa Photography for educational purposes only. They may not be used in any other manner outside of these SLR Lounge learning videos without the express written consent of Lin and Jirsa Photography. Thank you.

Full RAW Exercise File (13MB) – This full RAW file will allow you to follow the tutorial while achieving the exact same results as shown.

1) Adobe Photoshop CS5 – Buy the full version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 at at Amazon (free shipping) Click any of these links to take you to the offer.

2) Adobe Photoshop CS5 Student and Teacher Edition is also available through Amazon, click here to take you to the offer.

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In this Photoshop tutorial we are going to first apply some general sharpening to our image, then we are going to apply some selective sharpening to enhance image details.

Now, if you haven’t watched the previous parts to the PPR Series, then please catch up by watching the prior videos below:

Part I – Adobe Camera Raw Editing and Importing into Photoshop
Part II – Learning and Setting the Healing Brush Presets
Part III – Healing Blemishes and Unwanted Detail
Part IV – Diminishing Eye and Age Lines
Part V – Correcting Skin Tone Shifts and Tan Lines
Part VI – Softening Skin When Necessary
Part VII – Retouching the Eyes
Part VIII – Cleaning Up Stray Hair and Other Detail
Part IX – Enhancing and Sharpening Image Details
Part X – Final Color Adjustments

Note: These images have been provided to the SLR Lounge users curteousy of Lin and Jirsa Photography for educational purposes only. They may not be used in any other manner outside of these SLR Lounge learning videos without the express written consent of Lin and Jirsa Photography. Thank you.

Full RAW Exercise File (13MB) – This full RAW file will allow you to follow the tutorial while achieving the exact same results as shown.

1) Adobe Photoshop CS5 – Buy the full version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 at at Amazon (free shipping) Click any of these links to take you to the offer.

2) Adobe Photoshop CS5 Student and Teacher Edition is also available through Amazon, click here to take you to the offer.

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Partner of Lin and Jirsa Photography

Welcome to Part VIII of the Professional Photoshop Retouching Series on SLR Lounge.

In this Photoshop tutorial we are going to be working on cleaning up the remaining hair and line detail in the image.

This tutorial is not for the faint of heart. We are going to be using every retouch technique we have learned so far, along with some new ones to fully clean up this image. That is why we saved this video as the final retouch video in the series.

Now, we don’t waste any time in this video, but the video does clock in at nearly 25 minutes to teach all of the techniques while working through the image. But, I can assure you will be much better at retouch after watching, so stick through it!

Now, if you haven’t watched the previous parts to the PPR Series, then please catch up by watching the prior videos below:

Part I – Adobe Camera Raw Editing and Importing into Photoshop
Part II – Learning and Setting the Healing Brush Presets
Part III – Healing Blemishes and Unwanted Detail
Part IV – Diminishing Eye and Age Lines
Part V – Correcting Skin Tone Shifts and Tan Lines
Part VI – Softening Skin When Necessary
Part VII – Retouching the Eyes
Part VIII – Cleaning Up Stray Hair and Other Detail
Part IX – Enhancing and Sharpening Image Details
Part X – Final Color Adjustments

Note: These images have been provided to the SLR Lounge users curteousy of Lin and Jirsa Photography for educational purposes only. They may not be used in any other manner outside of these SLR Lounge learning videos without the express written consent of Lin and Jirsa Photography. Thank you.

Full RAW Exercise File (13MB) – This full RAW file will allow you to follow the tutorial while achieving the exact same results as shown.

1) Adobe Photoshop CS5 – Buy the full version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 at at Amazon (free shipping) Click any of these links to take you to the offer.

2) Adobe Photoshop CS5 Student and Teacher Edition is also available through Amazon, click here to take you to the offer.

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SLR Lounge Senior Editor
Partner of Lin and Jirsa Photography

Welcome to Part VII of the Professional Photoshop Retouching Series on SLR Lounge.

In this Photoshop tutorial we are going to be working on how retouch and enhance the eyes.

Now, it is important when retouching eyes to make sure you don’t go too far. But, what exactly is too far? Well, that is up for you to decide. For example, often times in retouching basic portraits for a client, the eye enhancements are rather subtle. However, in fashion and advertising you will see very heavy eye enhancements if you look closely. So, I will leave this up to your personal discretion.

Before we continue, we do want to give credit where credit is due. A couple of our techniques in this video are adapted from Sean Armenta of the FStoppers. Sean is a professional retoucher and is quite amazing at what he does.

Now, if you haven’t watched the previous parts to the PPR Series, then please catch up by watching the prior videos below:

Part I – Adobe Camera Raw Editing and Importing into Photoshop
Part II – Learning and Setting the Healing Brush Presets
Part III – Healing Blemishes and Unwanted Detail
Part IV – Diminishing Eye and Age Lines
Part V – Correcting Skin Tone Shifts and Tan Lines
Part VI – Softening Skin When Necessary
Part VII – Retouching the Eyes
Part VIII – Cleaning Up Stray Hair and Other Detail
Part IX – Enhancing and Sharpening Image Details
Part X – Final Color Adjustments

Note: These images have been provided to the SLR Lounge users curteousy of Lin and Jirsa Photography for educational purposes only. They may not be used in any other manner outside of these SLR Lounge learning videos without the express written consent of Lin and Jirsa Photography. Thank you.

Full RAW Exercise File (13MB) – This full RAW file will allow you to follow the tutorial while achieving the exact same results as shown.

1) Adobe Photoshop CS5 – Buy the full version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 at at Amazon (free shipping) Click any of these links to take you to the offer.

2) Adobe Photoshop CS5 Student and Teacher Edition is also available through Amazon, click here to take you to the offer.

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SLR Lounge Senior Editor
Partner of Lin and Jirsa Photography

In this Photoshop tutorial we are going to be working on how to soften and smooth skin when needed.

Before we get started let me preface this with a little warning. Skin softening and smoothing is often overused and overdone when used. When overdone, skin softening will make your subjects skin look too soft and smooth like a porcelain doll. It will be very noticeable, and it will be obvious that the image was Photoshopped.

So, when should you smooth over skin? Skin smoothing and softening is necessary when your subjects have very coarse skin or large pours. The majority of subjects in your image will require some blemish and line reduction, but will not need skin softening. You shouldn’t soften skin simply to cover blemishes that are better off being healed out. So, when you do use it, be sure to keep it subtle and light handed.

If you haven’t watched the previous parts to the PPR Series, then please catch up by watching the prior videos below:

Part I – Adobe Camera Raw Editing and Importing into Photoshop
Part II – Learning and Setting the Healing Brush Presets
Part III – Healing Blemishes and Unwanted Detail
Part IV – Diminishing Eye and Age Lines
Part V – Correcting Skin Tone Shifts and Tan Lines
Part VI – Softening Skin When Necessary
Part VII – Retouching the Eyes
Part VIII – Cleaning Up Stray Hair and Other Detail
Part IX – Enhancing and Sharpening Image Details
Part X – Final Color Adjustments

Note: These images have been provided to the SLR Lounge users curteousy of Lin and Jirsa Photography for educational purposes only. They may not be used in any other manner outside of these SLR Lounge learning videos without the express written consent of Lin and Jirsa Photography. Thank you.

Full RAW Exercise File (13MB) – This full RAW file will allow you to follow the tutorial while achieving the exact same results as shown.

1) Adobe Photoshop CS5 – Buy the full version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 at at Amazon (free shipping) Click any of these links to take you to the offer.

2) Adobe Photoshop CS5 Student and Teacher Edition is also available through Amazon, click here to take you to the offer.

Post Production Pye
SLR Lounge Senior Editor
Partner of Lin and Jirsa Photography