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Michael Woloszynowicz

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Color Grade For Beauty, Fashion, and Portrait Retouching With Michael Woloszynowicz The last video course by Michael Woloszynowicz focused on dodging and burning, a fundamental step in the process of retouching. In his latest tutorial, Michael continues through his retouching workflow and teaches his next step, color grading. Color grading is the process of altering or enhancing the color of a motion picture, video, or in this case, a digital photo. This retouching step has one of the most noticeable impacts on the final look of your photos and is essential to master. If you have not already watched Michael's first course, we recommend you start there as dodging and burning almost always precedes color grading in Michael's retouching workflow. Some of the concepts taught in this tutorial assume that corrective D&B has already been done to the image. If you have a good understanding of D&B, you should be able to follow along on this color grade course without much trouble. The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the versatile set of color grading tools available in Photoshop as well as when and why to use each one. The first half of the course focuses on the specific tools available during a color grade. Once these tools are thoroughly explained, Michael walks through practical examples of implementing various tools on some of his images. This course is not meant for beginners, it requires a basic understanding of Photoshop tools, layers, adjustment layers, blending modes and masks. However, take note that there is an explanation of each tool and a practical lesson where it is used on a PSD file that you will have access to. We hope that by the end of the lessons, you will be able to start practicing each tool with your own images to develop your own image look and style. What's Covered in This Tutorial? Lesson 1: Preparing For Color Grading (Raw Processing) Duration: 37:37 min Introduction: Course Outline The Necessary Setup and Terms Prerequisite Knowledge That Will Help You Get the Most Out of This Course Your Artistic Taste and Developing Your Own Style The Importance of Having a Solid Technical Foundation to Continuously Refine Your Color Grading Skill Set Preparing Your Raw Files For Eventual Color Grading The Importance of the Starting White Balance Contrast and Brightness: The Color Grading Potential of an Image Lesson 2:  Main Color Grading Methods and Photoshop Tools for Luminosity-Targeted Color Grading Duration: 28:18 min The Main Color Grading Methods: Luminosity-Targeted adjustments vs. Color-Targeted adjustments Altering Luminosity in Preparation for Color Grading Using the Curves Adjustment Layer The Black and White Adjustment Layer Using Channels for Selective Luminosity Corrections Using the Black and White Adjustment Layer for High Key Images Lesson 3: Photoshop Tools For Color-Targeted Adjustments Duration: 28:28 min The Solid Color Adjustment Layer; Ways to Combine It With Various Blending Modes and Opacity Levels The Gradient Map Adjustment Layer; Ways to Combine It With Various Blending Modes and Opacity Levels The Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer; Ways to Combine It With Various Blending Modes and Opacity Levels Lesson 4: Even More Photoshop Tools For Color Grading Duration: 26:45 min A Framework for Color Grading: Broad vs. Subtle Adjustments Using the Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer for Color Grading Using the Selective Color Adjustment Layer for Adding Subtle Accents to the Image and Altering Skin Tones Using the Color Balance Adjustment Layer for Refining the Look of Highlights and Shadows Practical Lessons 5-8: Color Grading Practical Examples for Various Types of Images Duration: 1 hour 36 min  In the remaining lessons, Michael demonstrates step-by-step color grading processes on various types of images, offering a detailed explanation of his thought process and why and how he chooses the color grading tools, layer blending modes and opacity levels depending on the type of image at hand and the desired results. The goal of these lessons is to help you build your own color grading system based on your own visual preferences, following Michael’s thought process, polished structure, and explanations. Lesson 5:  Color grading a high key image; two examples of step-by-step color grading aiming for a brighter image and then adding more contrast into the image in the first instance and a higher contrast look in the second by using color grading steps to add more contrast to the image Lesson 6:  Color grading examples of an image photographed outdoors Lesson 7:  Color grading examples of a low key image Lesson 8: Color grading examples of a studio beauty image, including a black and white conversion option Bonus Materials: Layered PSD files of all the images from the lessons for your analysis and practice Michael’s Color Grading Custom Actions What's Included in This Tutorial Download? A PDF including course information and a course outline Eight lessons teaching the theory and technique of color grading 3.5 hours of video content Four practice images to follow along with Michael's color grading actions

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Michael Woloszynowicz

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Fstoppers - Master Dodge and Burn - For Beauty, Fashion, and Portrait Retouching with Michael Woloszynowicz The photographers at Retouching Academy have produced some of the industry's best work when it comes to beauty photography and retouching. Not only are their images stunning, the educational content they have produced has provided immense help to other photographers learning the industry. The last product we featured, "Studio Beauty" with Julia Kuzmenko McKim was such a big hit that we're bringing more of their post processing techniques to Fstoppers. In RA's latest production, Michael Woloszynowicz dives into one of retouching's most fundamental techniques, dodging and burning. Michael breaks down this fundamental, nondestructive process into a four section course that teaches both the theory and practical application that goes into dodging and burning an image. Here's a little more of what this course provides. What's Covered in This Tutorial? Lesson 1 It's important to understand some of the broader points of retouching an image before we dive into practical application. This lesson introduces you to the tools and settings needed throughout the course as well as the reasoning behind choosing D&B as a corrective technique. Underlying theory behind D&B, what is it, how it works, why it is so important, and how it compares to other techniques The elements of an image: Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity Local or Corrective D&B Global D&B or Contouring D&B vs. Other Retouching Techniques D&B types within your workflow Tools and Layers for your D&B work Working with Curves Adjustment Layers for Corrective D&B and Contouring Working with 50% Gray Layers for Corrective D&B and Contouring D&B as a part of your retouching workflow Lesson 2 In this lesson, we begin to use D&B for localized correction and to refine luminosity shifts in skin to make it look perfect. We also examine how the technique can be used in combination with other tools like the Healing Brush. While we walk you through practical application of using D&B, we'll also demonstrate some pitfalls to avoid which give your images unnatural looking results. Lesson 3 In the third lesson we dive into the idea of contouring or global D&B. We explore how adding accentuating highlights or shadows on certain areas of the face and body can give your subject more depth and dimension to give a more three-dimensional appearance. This lesson starts with a completed beauty image and then moves on to  completing the black and white image from lesson two. To finish this lesson, we contour a color image to give an extra example of this technique. As well as the standard contour process, we examine the best ways to go about reshaping areas of the face using light and how to organize your layers when doing so. Lesson 4 The final lesson will involve putting the final touches on all our images, particularly from a color standpoint. Although our focus with D&B is to correct luminosity shifts, we still have to pay attention to color. This course doesn't dwell on color correction techniques but it is important to be able to identify color issues and understand the most useful tools for correcting color. We'll explore how to use D&B to work on details such as harsh shadows, dark spots in the whites of the eye, as well as peach fuzz on the face, and deal with the resulting color problems in those areas. Bonus Materials In addition to the educational video lessons, this course provides the following: Michael’s D&B Actions RA D&B Tool Presets for D&B Brushes Practice file (Fabrics) Practice file (Beauty portrait) What's Included in This Tutorial Download? A PDF including course information and a course outline Four lessons teaching the theory and technique of dodging and burning 3.5 hours of video content Practice images to follow along Michael's D&B actions and brush presets