Learn Portrait Retouching

Master portrait retouching techniques to create professional-quality photos. Also discover portrait retouching actions and presets that can speed up your work.
  1. How to Use the Healing Brush to Retouch Photos in Lightroom Classic

    How to Use the Healing Brush to Retouch Photos in Lightroom Classic

    Tutorial Beginner

    Using the Healing Brush will be one of the biggest time-savers in your photo retouching. Let's dive in and see how to use the Healing Brush in Lightroom!

  2. How to Retouch Skin in Portraits Using Frequency Separation

    How to Retouch Skin in Portraits Using Frequency Separation

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn three great techniques for skin retouching in Photoshop and find out when to use each so you can apply them in your workflow.

  3. How to Retouch Fly-Away Hair in Portrait Photos

    How to Retouch Fly-Away Hair in Portrait Photos

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Is fly-away hair is the bane of your portrait retouching workflow? Learn how to remove flyaways in Photoshop by following this tutorial.

  4. 11 Top Lightroom Preset Packs for Portrait Photography

    11 Top Lightroom Preset Packs for Portrait Photography

    Tutorial Beginner

    Protect skin tones and get professional results with this roundup of preset packs for Lightroom from Envato Elements, where everything is included in a...

  5. 10 Quick and Easy Lightroom Workflow Tricks and Tips

    10 Quick and Easy Lightroom Workflow Tricks and Tips

    Tutorial Beginner

    Here are a few quick and easy Lightroom tricks that you can quickly add to your workflow whether you're just picking up the app or have been using it for years.

  6. How to Retouch a Portrait in Pixelmator Pro

    How to Retouch a Portrait in Pixelmator Pro

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Let's learn how to retouch a portrait using Pixelmator Pro, an affordable Mac-based image editing software.

  7. How to Retouch a Portrait in Acorn Photo Editor for macOS (Photoshop Alternative)

    How to Retouch a Portrait in Acorn Photo Editor for macOS (Photoshop Alternative)

    Tutorial Beginner

    Looking for a more affordable way to retouch your digital images? Here we'll take a look at editing a portrait in Acorn Photo Editor, a great alternative to...

  8. How to Retouch Makeup in Portrait Photos

    How to Retouch Makeup in Portrait Photos

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn how to repair beauty makeup in Adobe Photoshop: the tips and techniques to smooth skin, create symmetry, and apply digital makeup.

  9. How to Retouch Portrait Photos in Adobe Camera Raw With Selective Adjustments

    How to Retouch Portrait Photos in Adobe Camera Raw With Selective Adjustments

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to make selective edits and targeted adjustments to parts of your portrait images in Adobe Camera Raw, in this tutorial about how to use the...

  10. How to Retouch Photos With the Visualize Spots Tool in Adobe Lightroom

    How to Retouch Photos With the Visualize Spots Tool in Adobe Lightroom

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn the easiest way to find spots and imperfections on your image and correct them in Adobe Lightroom.

  11. How to Use the Histogram to Correct Exposure in Capture One

    How to Use the Histogram to Correct Exposure in Capture One

    Tutorial Beginner

    If you'd like to get an idea of how the image correction process works in Capture One, follow along with this video tutorial from my course on Capture One...

  12. Historical Context, Contemporary Value: Old Photos as Cultural Documents

    Historical Context, Contemporary Value: Old Photos as Cultural Documents

    Tutorial Beginner

    Why does knowing something about your archive photograph matter? Here we'll look at some of the reasons and how you can find out about your own archive images.