I'm a photographer who teaches retouching to other photographers. This site has been a wealth of knowledge and I wanted to share some info too. I am developing a website for my students and thought I'd pass it along.

www.christyschuler.com/retouching.html

I did a few video tutorials / resources / etc.
Hope you enjoy them!

hey your videos are great! I'm a visual learner so I really love the tutorials you made!! Its always good to see how someone else handles situations. Like the bags under her eyes, i would have dodged and burned, but as i saw in your tutorial useing the patch tool is quicker and just as effective...its tips like that that can really speed up your work flow...great job! I hope you will add more...

Great tutorials, Christy! Very well explained and clear. Thank you for taking the time to do them and offer them here.

Thanks a lot for your great work !!! :bow:

Great work!
I hope to see more of your tutorials in the future!;)
they are great!

Ruud

Thanks for the kind words. I'm hoping to add more, so please feel free to send along any ideas or comments.

Thanks, that is the great tutorial.

Bye!

great tutorials, very easy to relate to other work flows. I will be incorperating your shading and highlighting on a troublesome image tonight.

I think the tutorials are excellently presented. What software do you use to capture the screen and voice?

I'm wanting to do the same with some tutorials.. mainly on the Amy Dresser techniques and some skin smoothing too.

Oh.. I have a horrible english male accent too. Is there any software to make my voice sound as good as yours? :lmao:

good job on the tutorials ..

=o)

I recorded the tutorials on my computer with snaps pro, it costs about $60, and hooked up a mic.
I'd love to see your other skin smoothing techniques, and the Amy Dresser one (the white layer / hightlight?). I want to get a burn and dodge skin smoothing technique up too, its a bit difficult to translate to students that it is fairly easy conceptually, it just takes a great deal of skill and practice. I think thats why so many people think high end retouchers are holding out some sort of secret. The real secret is simply to practice:)

Real great tutorials thanks for sharing with us..

I recorded the tutorials on my computer with snaps pro, it costs about $60, and hooked up a mic.
I'd love to see your other skin smoothing techniques, and the Amy Dresser one (the white layer / hightlight?). I want to get a burn and dodge skin smoothing technique up too, its a bit difficult to translate to students that it is fairly easy conceptually, it just takes a great deal of skill and practice. I think thats why so many people think high end retouchers are holding out some sort of secret. The real secret is simply to practice:)

No problems... I have a really rough tutorial here (http://www.enigma-photos.com/documents/Skin_Smoothing.pdf) for skin smoothing.

Amy uses three techniques really. The one you have shown with the 50% gray layer and overlay (I think you use Soft Light) blend, the multiple curves adjustment layer technique (e.g. Tweak the curve up and mask for highlights, tweak down mask for carving), and the Blue channel copy to select highlights and copy this to a white overlay layer.

Edit: Burn and dodge too... but I don't like this... It gives nasty casts to the skin.

I have an example of a photo I did here (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/395794624_5fad9b07ec_b.jpg). This uses all the techniques mentioned here.

Anyway.. I apologise... I'm going away from the original topic.