What a photographer needs in Photoshop to retouch and achieve professional images?

 

Photoshop Image Retouching Technique For Photographers

It doesn't matter if you are a beginner photographer or an experienced photographer. Today you can learn to use Photoshop without studying fat books or spending hours and hours trying to understand very technical tutorials.

 

 Get right to what a photographer needs in Photoshop to retouch and achieve professional images in the simplest way.

Dear fellow photographer,

My name is Juan Ignacio Torres, photographer, author and photography teacher. For years I have dedicated myself to teaching this art with special emphasis on photography initiation for beginners.

For this reason, and seeing that many photographers needed an effective way to start in photographic retouching, I did not hesitate to collaborate in the creation of this book, Photo Retouching with Photoshop, an initiative of Image Clipping Path India.

As you already know, photographic retouching is present in almost all the images we see every day, in magazines, posters, books, advertisements, paintings, and the list goes on ...

An ordinary photograph can be radically transformed through digital retouching, simply adjusting the exposure, contrast and color amazing changes can be achieved ...

Photoshop is such a powerful and complex photo editing program that it takes a lot of time of effort and dedication before fully mastering it.

Each of its tools and functions in combination has innumerable uses, even to such a degree that there is virtually no imaging unattainable for software. Any retouching you can imagine is feasible with Photoshop.

For this reason, it is logical that the management of this great program entails a very high learning curve. Depending on the level you want to achieve, the study method (design careers, courses, workshops, books, etc.) and the time spent by each, it might be possible to acquire the expertise to retouch professional photographs in 2 or 3 months to those who dedicate themselves fully, or from 6 months, even more than a year, for those who cannot do it full time.

It is clear that this depends on several factors, but the truth is, and in this everyone agrees, that learning to retouch with Photoshop requires time, dedication and effort.

Most amateur photographers work, have families, and often few hours off. In those cases, it is difficult for them to dedicate weeks or months to training. Therefore, if this is your case, do not be disappointed, since below I will show you the method of the book to quickly learn to retouch with Photoshop.

Actually, there is no shortcut but there is an intelligent approach through which you can learn to retouch your photos with Photoshop in an almost ridiculous time.

The use of Photoshop can be learned very easily if you know in advance the reason for which you will use it, that is, if you understand what type of photo editing you need.

For example, the type of digital treatment carried out by an illustrator or a publicist is not the same as carried out by a 3D designer, a multimedia video editor, or in our case a photographer!

Therefore, if you are a photographer, you do not need to learn functions that are generally used by professionals in other fields, such as advertising creatives, 3D animators, astronomers, webmasters, graphic designers, forensics, architects, producers, to name a few. Knowing this, the range of functions and tools that you really must master is significantly reduced.

Once you have established what kind of photo manipulation the professional photographer needs, it is easy to focus on the tools and functions that Photoshop offers for this purpose and ignore those that you will never need.

It is proven that most of Adobe Photoshop tools, commands, and tools are not used by the vast majority of its users. If we stop for a moment and apply the Pareto Principle, it can be seen that 80% of Photoshop users only need and use 20% of its tools and vice versa.

By this I mean that a small group of specialized tools can achieve more than a large set of them and they are often the only ones we will need for our normal activity.

For example, if you use typical retouching from a professional photographer, you don't need to learn to draw with artistic brushes, perform rendering, use actions, apply a large number of filters, create textures, use three-dimensional effects, etc ...

This is a widely used and continuously applied principle in various areas of life and increasingly in education to achieve rapid and specific results. With this procedure, it is possible to focus and put the magnifying glass on those tools that you really need to learn, so that you can achieve your objectives directly in the shortest possible time.

The purpose of Photo Retouching with Photoshop is to teach each photographer to retouch their photographs without having to waste an enormous amount of time in courses or very technical books on Photoshop, and wherein the end they will only use 20% of what they have learned or less.

I am sure that most photographers want to continue shooting and taking photos in their free hours, and not sitting in front of a screen learning complex functions and commands in Photoshop.

I have worked closely with the Photoshop experts at Image Clipping Path India to include every digital retouch that professional photographers (amateur or professional) need to transform their photos. So I hope that with this book you can achieve it. Sincerely!

• Cut photographs, rearrange the composition and/or eliminate unwanted parts.
• Enhance the contrast to each shot to add strength and sharpness to the shot.
• Correct very bright areas such as very white skies.
• Adjust the white balance and achieve the colors that the photo should really have.
• Correct very dark photos adjust exposure easily.
• Restore old photos in just a few steps.
• Eliminate the problem of red eyes in portraits.
• Change the depth of field, blur the background.
• One-click exposure reset when you're in a hurry
• Apply the famous effect of joining two or more photos into one.
• Modify the size of each photo for printing, social networks, web, etc.
• Apply watermark. Put your name in the photos and avoid fraud.
• Correct skin defects in models.
• Apply effects such as sepia or black and white.