Photoshop Retouching Tutorials
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Running Time: 10 minutes
This video is part 3 in the series of How To Succeed as a Freelancer. If you take the time to watch them all, I will have given you every freelancer trick that I can think of to help you thrive. From finding Clients, to keeping them coming back. Success truly is within your reach.
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Running Time: 11 minutes
My name is John Ross from The Art of Retouching Studio. In this video I want to clear up the usual common misconceptions about Color Modes, Color Models, Color Profiles, and Color Spaces. Give me a few minutes of your time, and you will no longer be confused by it.
The base cause of this confusion stems from my research in this topic. Half the websites say one thing, and the other half say something else. Rest assured that I am a qualified professional. I’ve done my research, and this is the correct information.
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My name is John Ross from the Art of Retouching Studio. In this video, I'll introduce you to three important topics that are essential for working with digital images in Photoshop, and these are pixels, image size and image resolution.
Having a solid understanding of how they are related to each other is essential for getting the best results when resizing images, both for print and for the web. Let’s take a look at Image Resolution, and how you can make it work for you.
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My name is John Ross with the Art of Retouching Studio. This video is part 2 in the series of How To Succeed as a Freelancer. How do you handle clients who demand that you get something done at 2AM on a Sunday? What happens when retouching styles clash?
In this video, I'll be talking about how to keep yourself sane throughout your retouching career beyond Photoshop and growing your portfolio. Because working from your home office and making money isn't all about the basics of Photoshop, it's about business. This video aims to teach you real-world skills on how to handle clients the right way and on how to make things happen as a successful freelancer.
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Running Time: 13 minutes
The sad thing about working as a freelancer is that thanks to the word "Free", people often think that the work you do is low cost. In their mind, they are doing YOU the favor by keeping you busy, and helping you grow your portfolio so you can start making some real money.
This mindset completely under values your work, and forces you to spend all of your time underpaid. If you could only break out of the low-cost slump you find yourself in, then maybe you start living a more prosperous life. The problem is that I always felt as though that price was way too high. After all, I didn't want to pay those prices, so nobody else wanted to either. Boy was I wrong.
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Running Time: 12 minutes
This Digital Fundamentals tutorial is on the difference between editing images in 8-bit color and 16-bit bit depth. While it should be obvious that 16-bit color is twice as good as the 8-bit color, it just doesn't seem that way to the naked eye. This is because humans can only see less than 10 million colors. Since 8-bit already exceeds 16 million colors, why in the world do we need to work in a bit depth that moves us into trillions of colors? Visually, they both look the same, why use the higher resolution?
This very quick Digital Fundamentals tutorial is only a few minutes long, but guarantees you will never work in the 8-bit bit depth again! With two adjustments using the levels tool, you
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What is the 300 DPI Myth? What are DPI, PPI and LPI? John Ross will explain to you the differences between Dots Per Inch, Pixels Per Inch, and Lines Per Inch. You will learn how to use them to supply images for Print magazines.
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Running Time: 33 minutes
My name is John Ross, and welcome back to Behind the Retouching! It’s been quite a while, and it is my absolute pleasure to lead you into another in-depth look at what goes on behind the scenes in an actual photo retouching session. For issue 138 of Advanced Photoshop Magazine, we’re celebrating natural beauty and all the imperfections that go along with it.
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Running Time: 10 minutes
As big a deal as Adobe Photoshop is in the world of retouching today, there are and always will be, errors inside the program—from minor inconveniences to glaring mistakes that are bordering on ridiculous. While the rest of the world can just shake their heads and wonder if someone over at Adobe was drunk when the blunder happened, we’re here to break these mistakes down for you so that you will know how to cope. Here are the most common Adobe Photoshop fails that you should be aware of.
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Running Time: 44 minutes
Welcome to Behind the Retouching, your all-access pass to learning about what goes on in an actual photo retouching session. Everyone loves a good superhero film, and Advanced Photoshop Magazine knows that one of the best parts of the hype is the awesome movie poster.
For issue 136, it’s all about the making of a superhero. My name is John Ross, and if you’ve always wondered how the magic behind those stunning movie posters work, you’ve come to the right place.
