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SURREAL RETOUCHING
With Kelly Robitaille
PORTRAIT RETOUCHING WORKFLOW
PORTRAIT RETOUCHING WORKFLOW
In this tutorial Kelly Robitaille unveils her entire creative workflow for taking surreal and whimsical portraits from concept to realization. Beginning with a concept, Kelly stresses the importance of giving her subjects backstory to create a photographic narrative and enhance character-driven emotion within her surreal portraiture. She then dives into the technical side of her work demonstrating a number of Photoshop tools in interesting and unconventional ways specific to her style, yet easily translated into nearly any style or genre.
IMPROVE YOUR ENTIRE APPROACH
Using common Photoshop practices like dodge and burn, frequency separation, compositing, blend modes, the liquify tool, and puppet warp, Kelly’s workflow provides a fresh look at portrait retouching as an artful practice more than a trite and repetitive process. Kelly teaches how to manipulate human form with purpose, invoke emotion with characters, and use photoshop textures to create depth and atmosphere within images.
Finally Kelly challenges you with a homework assignment, providing a RAW image and character story to create an image of your own.
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21 Total Videos
3 Hour Course
7 RAW Images Included
$99 Value FREE
Kelly’s PS Actions Included
$99 Value FREE
Overlays Textures
$19 Value FREE
ENGLISH CC’s
SPANISH SUBTITLES Included
Adobe Photoshop
Universal PS Workflow
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SMALL CHANGES | BIG RESULTS
Many photographers are accomplished at bringing their vision to life. Kelly Robitaille has turned her dark and dreamlike visions into a series of surreal and whimsical portraits. In this tutorial Kelly shares her portrait retouching methods, including actions, overlays and textures, which will allow you to create unusual and surreal portraits.
TAKE YOUR STORY FURTHER
It’s really incredible the creativity and vision you can bring to your RAW images in post. Tap or click on the image below to see the image straight out of camera, and see where her vision and a few methods in Photoshop can take you.
MEET KELLY ROBITAILLE
Kelly Robitaille is a Canadian based commercial retoucher and photographer. Her deep skills as a retouching artist has her working for clients around the globe. Kelly is widely known for her ‘Whimsical Waif’ portrait series which feature exaggerated body form and large eyes. Her non-traditional approach to portraits and retouching have given her a unique and instantly recognizable look.
