Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part I – Adobe Camera Raw

Welcome to Part I of the SLR Lounge Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouching Series. In this tutorial series, we are going to walk you through every single step to take a RAW image SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) and prepare the image for professional editorial reprinting.

In this tutorial series we will be doing every bit of the retouch using Photoshop’s built in features. We won’t be cutting any corners by using any “quick skin smoothing” techniques. Retouching to this extent does take quite a bit of time, around 20 – 30 minutes depending on the image. However, you will find that the process will yield a much higher quality final result.

In this video, Part I of our series, we will be making some basic develop adjustments in ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) and then we will bring our image into Photoshop. Enjoy!

As we add additional videos in this series, we will be updating the PPR Series table of contents 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.

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RELATED ARTICLES

1. Learning and Setting Healing Brush Presets – Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part II
2. Correcting Tan Lines and Skin Tone Shifts – Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part V
3. Softening and Smoothing Skin When Needed – Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part VI
4. Removing Unwanted Lines and Blemishes via the Healing Brushes – Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part III
5. Diminishing Age and Eye Lines via the Clone Stamp Tool – Professional Photoshop Portrait Retouch Series – Part IV