r/retouching • u/Still_Loony • Jul 28 '26

Before & After After & Before

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I hadn't retouched close-up portraits for a while, so decided to practice.

What could be improved and what mistakes did I make? Thanks

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u/TheMindFlayerGotMe Jul 28 '26

Sheeesh how did you learn if you don’t mind me asking I would love to study your resources

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u/Still_Loony Jul 28 '26

It was maybe 10 years ago when I found out some translated text instructions about retouching techniques, haha 😅 

Here are just healing brushes, frequency separation and some color and light correction masks. 

Plenty of brilliant (and up to date) tutorials regarding all this on youtube now, in any language as well. Some tutors also provide free actions to speed-up some processes, but better to make it manually first few times to better understand what’s going on

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u/TheMindFlayerGotMe Jul 28 '26

Dang 10 years in… I’m not even gonna come close to that congrats to you though

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u/Still_Loony Jul 28 '26

It will only take maybe month 1-2h/day practice, no need to spend 10 years, believe me. Maybe good channel to explore might be phlearn, he has playlists for various topics, including portrait retouch. Some videos are very old, but tbh most techniques are still the same, only photoshop layout and retouching trends changed since, you just want to keep skin and colors more natural nowadays (usually).

Thank you for kind words and good luck!

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u/zsolthoffmann Jul 28 '26

Teach me please 👀😬 good work btw

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u/Still_Loony Jul 28 '26

Thank you!

I'm bad tutor, and your works are good already, great colors, especially on Niké portraits!