This DVD-ROM contains the information you have been seeking but could not find. Your host Vitaly Druchinin, high end photographer and retoucher reveals all, first by thoroughly explaining to you how to apply Photoshop tools and functions specifically for retouching. Then hold on to your chair as Vitaly puts you front and center in front of his monitor as he retouches a beauty image captured with the Hasselblad H3D 39 Megapixel camera from start to finish, explaining every step and decision along the way. You will see first hand how to masterfully manipulate your images without destroying even a single pore of your model's skin.

Table Of Contents:

Part One: Retouching Tools
1. Introduction
2. Levels
3. Color balance
4. Hue/Saturation
5. Clone Stamp
6. Healing brush
7. Brush tool
8. History brush
9. Dodge & burn
10. Eye Dropper
11. Liquify
12. Warp
13. Unsharp Mask

Part Two: Complete Retouch
1. Introduction
2. 3D Modeling excersize
3. ACR developing
4. Retouch setup
5. Image healing
6. Hair shape with liquify
7. Head shape with warp
8. Ear & eye shaping
9. Modeling with dodge & burn
10. Wrinkle fading
11. Removing ear piercing
12. Hiding ear vains
13. Reshaping lips
14. Adding lip color
15. Removing eye vains
16. Fading eye redness
17. Teeth whitening
18. Teeth de-yellowing
19. Teeth shaping
20. Adding lashes
21. Filling in hair
22. Hair shape liquifying
23. Darkening lashes
24. Making pupils pop
25. Shaping the body
26. Removing fly hairs
27. Local contrast
28. Sharpening

Completely new, updated and greatly expanded (11.5 hours), Beauty & Hair Retouching High End Techniques - Series Two is hosted by the world renowned retouching artist, Natalia Taffarel. She is famous for her natural and completely seamless retouching style that is all about beauty and details. She leaves nothing a secret and holds nothing back as she explains in great detail her entire workflow and techniques, all the things she is famous for, her beauty and hair work. Natalia has a huge following and her DVD has been greatly anticipated by the retouching community for years and now, the wait is finally over!

Table Of Contents:

The Best from RAW - 33 minutes
- Different RAW converters
- Looking at an image
- Exposure vs Brightness
- Contrast vs Curves
- Vibrance vs Saturation
- First conversion: Body
- Split toning
- Cross processed look
- Clarity
- Sharpening
- Workflow options
- Saving/loading presets
- Second conversion: Face
- Third conversion: Eyes
- Masking & creating the working file
- Extra conversion: Shadow detail
- View mode for beauty retouching
- Final masking

Composition - 48 minutes
- Determine what to manipulate
- Creating a stamp from layers
- Removing background objects
- Masking eyelashes, refining a mask
- Painting in eyelashes
- Making edges look natural
- Faster, bigger liquify method

Skin Retouching - 1 hour, 17 minutes
- Healing brush vs spot healing brush vs stamp tool
- How the healing brush works, how to heal, when to heal
- Healing alternatives
- Healing on empty layer vs split

The High Pass Thing - 21 minutes
- Description and use
- How to
- Identifying problem areas
- Using high pass to visualize and choose the radius
- Various uses
- How now to overuse it

General Fixes - 56 minutes
- Recognizing the elements to fix
- Hair fix
- Eye veins
- Lip line fix with a curve
- Eyelashes

Dodge & Burn - 1 hour, 20 minutes
- Description and different uses
- Using 50% grey in softlight
- Using curve adjustment layers
- Help visualizing the problem areas
- Fixing saturation shifts
- Real time dodge & burn with tips
- Dodge & burn masks for color adjustment layers

Color & Sharpening - 29 minutes
- Recognizing what to fix
- How to fix local hue differences
- Adding/recovering eye bag saturation
- Removing local color casts with color balance
- Using a gradient map to even out tones
- Adding glitter to the lips
- Sharpening using the split
- Sharpening different parts with radius
- Choosing a different radius
- How to sharpen eyes, skin and details

Extras - 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Introduction
- Quick head shape correction
- Correcting uneven eyelids
- Removing unwanted hair
- Reshaping the body with liquify
- Bringing back highlights and texture
- Changing eye color
- Background change, patterns, gradients
- Applying makeup: Base, glitter & shine
- Applying makeup: Eye shadow
- Tattoo, design over body
- Eyeliner
- Applying makeup: Texture from different source
- Turning skin white
- Adding eyelashes, colored eyelashes
- Adding shine to skin
- Tricks to make the image pop
- Black & white conversion

Straight Hair - 1 hour, 57 minutes
- Selecting images for the composite
- Creating base working file
- Using another hair source
- Cut & Paste ? mask
- Hair liquifying
- Matching hair sources with transform & warp
- Basic masking
- Use another source to add a fold of hair
- Using detail from another source to replace shadows
- Retouching hair vs retouching skin
- Cloning in darken mode to remove flying hair
- Selectively removing color casts on hair
- Hair dodge & burn
- Painting in hair to enhance texture
- Fixing dry hair, cloning in darken mode
- Drawing in hair to enhance dry hair
- Removing hair from the background
- Using inverted high pass on hair
- Further dodge & burn on hair
- Skin retouching & color correction
- Cropping

Blowing Hair - 1 hour, 46 minutes
- Working file review
- Changing hair tone & hair masking
- Compositing hair from multiple sources
- Color correction using a gradient map
- Removing hair from background
- Cloning & drawing hair
- Hair dodge & burn
- Fix and reconstruct breast
- Good bye

The DVD is packed with detailed explanations on everything you wanted to know, from what D&B is, how it's used, applications, tools & custom methods to work flow considerations for more effective retouching and more. Your host Krunoslav Stifter will guide you in a one-on-one style beyond the simple use of native dodge and burn tools to more advanced retouching techniques used by some of the best retouchers in the world to achieve that which is nearly impossible with any other tool or filter - perfectly smooth natural looking skin. If you ever wondered how images that grace the covers of top fashion magazines such as Vogue or Elle are retouched, then this is THE DVD you have been looking for.

Table of contents:

CHAPTER ONE - Painting with light
0 - Trailer - 3:31
1 - Introduction - 2:26
2 - What is Dodge & Burn? - 3:03
3 - Painting With Light - 1:38
4- Tools and Methods - 4:45
5 - Micro Vs. Macro - 2:26

CHAPTER TWO - Customization
1 - Customizing preferences and user interface - 43:26
2 - Keyboard Shortcuts - 9:03
3 - Mouse Vs. Pen - 8:56
4 - Brush Settings - 25:17
5 - Opacity, Flow & Airbrush - 15:56
6 - Modifier Keys - 0:55
7 - "Ideal" Work Conditions - 7:00
8 - Image Quality - 8:46

CHAPTER THREE - All roads lead to Rome
1 - More effective D & B - 49:16
2 - Native D & B Tools - 41:27
3 - Soft Light Blending Mode - 17:30
4 - D & B using Soft Light Blending Mode - 56:45
5 - D & B With Adjustment Layers - 32:53
6 - D & B Side effects - 17:39
7 - Recording Actions - 38:19

CHAPTER FOUR - The fun begins!
1 - Workflow introduction - 4:46
2 - Male model workflow analysis - 19:49
3 - Beauty image workflow analysis - 11:42
4 - Dark skin model workflow analysis - 08:21
5 - Full body shot D & B: Part I - 33:22
6 - Full body shot D & B: Part II - 31:40
7 - Male model D & B - 66:22

CHAPTER FIVE - Bonus
1 - Split Frequency Introduction - 3:00
2 - Split Frequency Example - 32:07
3 - Recording an action for Split Frequency - 8:12
4 - Inverted High Pass - 12:21
5 - Q & A - 7:10
6 - Inspiration - 20:10