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Exploring the Essential Features of “Rachel & Matt Korinek – Retouching Food Photography”
Enhancing a photo without making it look fake is a skill.
It can take your images to the next level.
You too can create commercial quality images for your clients in less time.
Effective techniques that take minutes not hours.
What if you didn’t have to lose that winning shot because of a tiny imperfection?
JUST IMAGINE…
Retouching wasn’t difficult and didn’t take you hours, or even days! You could easily remove the ugly parts without losing texture.
You could create what you had in your mind and didn’t have to settle for something you love less.
You didn’t have to pay someone to retouch your images for you, but instead you could charge your clients more for a premium retouching service.
Your images weren’t rejected because of oil spots you couldn’t remove.
You could easily clone the whipped cream on top of your hot chocolate and make the colour of your egg yolks consistent.
Let’s…Make an image look flawless.
We hear your frustrations!
“My images were rejected due to distractions and oil spots I couldn’t remove.”
“No one might notice, but not being able to remove that hair is driving me crazy.”
“I tried to change it in Lightroom, but it looked worse!”
“I live in a small town and cannot always find the best looking and most fresh fruits and vegetables. There’s always blemishes.”
Have you ever been proud of an image only to start editing and notice a reflection, crack or a hair? It’s deflating!
Retouching delivers a higher quality of work.
It’s the missing link you need to give your images that little extra punch.
(But every time you open your Abode Photoshop package, you’re immediately overwhelmed and you’ve given up even trying.)
That’s why we created
RETOUCHING FOODPHOTOGRAPHY
Retouching can perfect those burger shots and provide more value to your client.
(Which means you can charge more money!)
This course provides you with fundamental Photoshop retouching skills to create picture-perfect food that looks natural yet well polished and will help you deliver higher quality work to your clients. Give your images that extra punch…
5 EASY RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES
Using these fundamental Photoshop retouching techniques, we’ll teach you the best tools to use to remove the ugly parts of an image, while keeping a natural look without losing texture or detail.
You’ll discover how easy it is to produce commercial quality images for your clients.
30 TOOL & TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATIONS
The key to creating a natural and seamless blend is having a few ‘go-to’ tools.
Watch us use different tools on a range of images and situations to better grasp an effective retouching workflow.
UNDERSTAND LAYERS + MASKING
Work smarter, not harder, by getting savvy with how to best use layers and masks in Photoshop. Create small, editable files that use masks for effective and seamless corrections. Layer organisation will be your new strong suit.
No more ‘no pixel selected’ pop-ups that prevent you from working.
TOOL QUICK GUIDES
To save you time, you don’t have to fast-forward through video after video to try and remind yourself which tools you need to use.
Our Tool & Technique Quick Guides will keep you from feeling overwhelmed. You’ll know exactly which tool to use for the specific retouching you need.
INTEGRATE WITH LIGHTROOM & CAPTURE ONE
Stay organised by learning how to integrate a Photoshop retouching workflow with your RAW editor of choice, like Lightroom and Capture One. Create editable files you can go back and edit time and time again.
If a client needs an adjustment, don’t start over from scratch.
WORK ON RETOUCHING FILES
Practice is important. Put everything you’re learning into practice by downloading and retouching example avocado images.
Retouching Made Easy
Object + Reflection Removals
Reflections and distractions happen, but they don’t have to stay.
Learn how to remove unwanted objects, distractions and reflections like a boss.
Create Composites
Composites are a key part of the commercial photography process.
Learn the different types of composites and how to build the perfect shot.
Blemishes + Cleaning
Understand the difference between imperfections and blemishes.
Find which tools to use to clean different types of blemishes in food and on backgrounds.
Straightening + Shaping
Elevate the details in food by making straightening and shaping adjustments using Free Transform, Puppet Warp + Liquify tools.
Don’t let crooked lines bug you anymore!
Light + Colour Enhancements
Shape and define light using Dodge + Burn techniques, as well as making food stand out with colour corrections and enhancements.You too can create commercial quality egg yolks + the perfect burger buns.
CURRICULUM
This course will empower you to have Photoshop retouching at your fingertips, and provide your clients with a premium service.
We’re going to focus on the techniques that the commercial world of food photography requires
(most of which you won’t find tailored to food photography on the internet for free).
Here’s the lowdown on the retouching you’re about to learn in each of the 7 modules:
- RETOUCHING FOUNDATIONS – Understanding Photoshop, tool introductions and how layering + masing works
- REFLECTION & OBJECT REMOVAL – Learn the different methods of removal and how best to remove reflections and objects with ease
- CREATE COMPOSITES – The perfect shot comes from combining multiple images. Discover the methods of compositing
- CLEANING TECHNIQUES – Every image can use a little touch-up. Learn the methods of cleaning to unwanted blemishes
- STRAIGHTENING & SHAPING – Discover tools like Pupper Wrap, Liquification and Transformation Tool to straighten anything!
- ENHANCE COLOUR & LIGHT – Learn how to change the colour of anything as well as how to Dodge & Burn
plus all this good stuff… the tools + techniques you’re about to master
- Clone Stamp
- Brush Tool
- Spot + Healing Brush
- Patch Tool
- Content-Aware
- Dodge & Burn
- Layers + Masking
- Puppet Wrap
- Liquify
YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Matt Korinek & Rachel Korinek
We’re a husband and wife team who’ve worked as freelance and commercial photographers for over 10 years. With international experience, we’ve worked for a range of small businesses to multi-million dollar clients.
Both of us have a degree in teaching and have taught in the education system. Teaching comes naturally to us and we’re excited to share our passion for retouching with YOU!
So whether you’re photographing a delectable truffle dish or trying to make brown stews and lasagna look effortlessly beautiful…
Harnessing Photoshop tools will help you make sure every little detail is accounted for.
BEFORE Retouching Food Photography
- Photoshop feels overwhelming, and it’s easier just to give up.
- You’re afraid professional retouchers will notice your mistakes.
- Images are rejected due to imperfections.
- Retouching that looks noticeably over-processed.
- Fear that ‘someone will zoom in close on that section’.
- Discarding winning images due to stray hairs (human and animal!).
- Spending days trying to fix objects that will annoy you forever.
- Paying others to retouch your images for you.
- Feeling embarrassed about telling a client you can’t do what they need.
AFTER Retouching Food Photography
- Photoshop is a breeze and retouching takes minutes, not hours (or days!).
- Images are polished and flawless, yet natural.
- No one can tell your images are retouched.
- You’re able to provide a premium service to your clients and earn extra money.
- You get your business off the ground with confidence.
- Remove tiny hairs, reflections, oil spots and unwanted objects like it’s second nature.
- Clone the whipped cream topping off your hot chocolate like it’s nothing.
- Make all of your egg yolks match and even out colour.
- Smooth and remove indentations and dents from your burger buns.
- Extend backgrounds and build perfect shots with composites.
Who should join Retouching Food Photography?
Who this course is for
- Food Photographers who are overwhelmed by Photoshop and are looking to get started with retouching or beef up their skills.
- Hobbyist to intermediate or advanced photographers who can edit in Lightroom or Capture One.
- Anyone who has had their images rejected due to imperfections.
- If you’re sick of spending countless hours fumbling with tools that make your images look worse.
- Creatives who want to be empowered to know which retouching tools and techniques to use and when.
- Those who don’t want to lose a winning image due to an imperfection.
- People who are sick of those little things annoying them and driving them crazy.
- Photographers who want to add a premium retouching service to their business and charge clients more money.
- Creatives who want flawless images that still feel natural and not over-processed.
Who this course is not for
- Those new to editing who aren’t able to process a photo in Lightroom yet (you’ll want to start by taking Lightroom Magic – can’t wait to host you).
- Professional retouchers (you guys are the bomb and I know you’ve mastered these skills already!).
- If you just want to learn Frequency Separation… that’s a skill for a high-level course, my friend.
- Complete beginners to food photography. This is a skill to master when you need to take that next step and level-up.
- Any photographer who isn’t interested in learning retouching and just wants to outsource and not save money.
- Landscape, newborn or portrait photographers. We only cover food photography. You’d be best suited to find another course in your niche.
Please see the full list of alternative group-buy courses available here: https://lunacourse.com/shop/
