FOUNDATIONS FOR RETOUCHING

• How Photoshop Works + Photoshop Workspace

• Tool Introduction + Shortcuts

• Layers, Masks + Brushes

• Creating Assets + Plates

• Saving Files + Integration with Lightroom or Capture One

• Tool Quick Guides

REMOVING UNWANTED OBJECTS
+ REFLECTIONS

• Methods of Removal

• Removing Unwanted Objects

• Removing Reflections

• Create Floating Objects

CREATING COMPOSITES

• Methods of Creating Composites

• Composite Photography – Building The Perfect Shot

• Composite Photography – Lighting

• Composite Photography – Aperture/DOF

• Composite Photography – Plate Technique

• Composite Photography – Create A Food Gathering

REMOVING BLEMISHES + CLEANING TECHNIQUES

• Methods of Cleaning

• Retouching Blemishes – Cloning

• Retouching Blemishes – Healing + Patching

• Touching Up Backgrounds

STRAIGHTENING + SHAPING

• Methods of Modification

• Local Free Transform

• Puppet Warp + Straightening

• Liquifying Subjects

COLOUR + LIGHT ENHANCING

• Methods of Colour Enhancing

• Dodge + Burn Technique PS Action

• Changing Colour

• Retouching Colour

• Retouching – Dodge + Burn Technique

PRACTICE SAMPLES

• Putting it all together with downloadable practice samples

• Chocolate Cake retouching demonstration – start to finish

• Whiskey Sour retouching demonstration – start to finish

• Avocado Flatlay retouching demonstration – start to finish\

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

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!
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.

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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.

Fanette –

Product & Food Photographer

Retouching Food Photography has helped me extend a background for a client image (in less than 5 minutes!), change the colors on a product without affecting the rest of the image, and I always, always come back to it before I make a composite (the plate trick is amazing!). Like when you need a busy tablescape scene and you only have 2 models!!

Rachel & Matt’s instruction are clear and concise and their knowledge of Photoshop is amazing! I strongly recommend it!

Melissa –

Photographer & Stylist

I joined the Retouching Food Photography course to improve my Photoshop skills for client work. The quality of my photos improved exponentially from learning techniques such as removing reflections and blemishes.

It came in handy when photographing glassware for clients product shots. It saved the day!
Sarah –

Photographer

I recently took the Retouching Food Photography course with Rachel and Matt and loved every minute! I had no idea how how many techniques I could apply to my post production work to enhance my images!

The lessons are well thought out and the examples are clearly explained with simple directions on how to apply it to your own work. I also love that I can go back to a specific lesson whenever I need a little reminder on various techniques.

Nguyet –

Photographer

I was somewhat familiar with perhaps two tools in Photoshop and didn’t even know how to use them in the most effective ways. It was a combination of guessing and brute force to retouch my images.

I learned a lot of new techniques but learning to remove reflections effectively was probably the most valuable. Learning to use content-aware fill and the clone stamp effectively has saved me so much time and stress. And I’ve already been able to to apply those new skills to some client images on a recent shoot!

Removing the reflections of the glasses from that wine bottle was probably one of my proudest moments.
Malak –

Photographer

I have tried so many times to learn Photoshop, but it was so overwhelming that I would always quit. After taking Retouching Food Photography, using Photoshop now makes sense and I actually really enjoy it! It has been the best investment for my photography journey.

I’ve gone from not being able to open a picture in Photoshop, to merging images together, cleaning up photos and much more.

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.

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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.