Rachel & Matt Korinek – Retouching Food Photography

Take your food photos to the next level using easy Photoshop retouching techniques (in minutes not hours)
Rachel & Matt Korinek – Retouching Food Photography

Enhancing a photo without making it look fake is a skill.
It can take your images to the next level.

You too can create commercial quality images for your clients in less time.
Effective techniques that take minutes not hours.

What if you didn’t have to lose that winning shot because of a tiny imperfection?
JUST IMAGINE…
Retouching wasn’t difficult and didn’t take you hours, or even days! You could easily remove the ugly parts without losing texture.
You could create what you had in your mind and didn’t have to settle for something you love less.
You didn’t have to pay someone to retouch your images for you, but instead you could charge your clients more for a premium retouching service.
Your images weren’t rejected because of oil spots you couldn’t remove.
You could easily clone the whipped cream on top of your hot chocolate and make the colour of your egg yolks consistent.

Let’s…
Make an image look flawless.

We hear your frustrations!
“My images were rejected due to distractions and oil spots I couldn’t remove.”
“No one might notice, but not being able to remove that hair is driving me crazy.”
“I tried to change it in Lightroom, but it looked worse!”
“I live in a small town and cannot always find the best looking and most fresh fruits and vegetables. There’s always blemishes.”
Have you ever been proud of an image only to start editing and notice a reflection, crack or a hair? It’s deflating!

Retouching delivers a higher quality of work.
It’s the missing link you need to give your images that little extra punch.
(But every time you open your Abode Photoshop package, you’re immediately overwhelmed and you’ve given up even trying.)

That’s why we created

Retouching can perfect those burger shots and provide more value to your client.
(Which means you can charge more money!)

This course provides you with fundamental Photoshop retouching skills to create picture-perfect food that looks natural yet well polished and will help you deliver higher quality work to your clients.

RETOUCHING FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY TEACHES THE RETOUCHING FUNDAMENTALS NEEDED TO FIX DISTRACTIONS AND PERFORM ENHANCEMENTS FOR FLAWLESS BUT NATURAL FOOD IMAGES.
WITH PHOTOSHOP.

5 EASY RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES
Using these fundamental Photoshop retouching techniques, we’ll teach you the best tools to use to remove the ugly parts of an image, while keeping a natural look without losing texture or detail.
You’ll discover how easy it is to produce commercial quality images for your clients.

30 TOOL & TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATIONS
The key to creating a natural and seamless blend is having a few ‘go-to’ tools.
Watch us use different tools on a range of images and situations to better grasp an effective retouching workflow.

UNDERSTAND LAYERS + MASKING
Work smarter, not harder, by getting savvy with how to best use layers and masks in Photoshop. Create small, editable files that use masks for effective and seamless corrections. Layer organisation will be your new strong suit.
No more ‘no pixel selected’ pop-ups that prevent you from working.

TOOL QUICK GUIDES
To save you time, you don’t have to fast-forward through video after video to try and remind yourself which tools you need to use.
Our Tool & Technique Quick Guides will keep you from feeling overwhelmed. You’ll know exactly which tool to use for the specific retouching you need.

INTEGRATE WITH LIGHTROOM & CAPTURE ONE
Stay organised by learning how to integrate a Photoshop retouching workflow with your RAW editor of choice,like Lightroom and Capture One. Create editable files you can go back and edit time and time again.
If a client needs an adjustment, don’t start over from scratch.

WORK ON RETOUCHING FILES
Practice is important. Put everything you’re learning into practice by downloading and retouching example avocado images.

Retouching Made Easy
Before and Afters.
Learn these crucial Photoshop techniques and deliver a higher quality of work.

Object + Reflection Removals

Reflections and distractions happen, but they don’t have to stay.
Learn how to remove unwanted objects, distractions and reflections like a boss.
Create Composites

Composites are a key part of the commercial photography process.
Learn the different types of composites and how to build the perfect shot.
Blemishes + Cleaning

Understand the difference between imperfections and blemishes.
Find which tools to use to clean different types of blemishes in food and on backgrounds.

Straightening + Shaping

Elevate the details in food by making straightening and shaping adjustments using Free Transform, Puppet Warp + Liquify tools.
Don’t let crooked lines bug you anymore!

Light + Colour Enhancements

Shape and define light using Dodge + Burn techniques, as well as making food stand out with colour corrections and enhancements.
You too can create commercial qualityegg yolks + the perfect burger buns.

CURRICULUM
This course will empower you to have Photoshop retouching at your fingertips, and provide your clients with a premium service.
We’re going to focus on the techniques that the commercial world of food photography requires

(most of which you won’t find tailored to food photography on the internet for free).
Here’s the lowdown on the retouching you’re about to learn in each of the 7 modules:

MODULE 1:

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

MODULE 2:

REMOVING UNWANTED OBJECTS

+ REFLECTIONS

Methods of Removal

Removing Unwanted Objects

Removing Reflections

Create Floating Objects

MODULE 3:

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

MODULE 4:

REMOVING BLEMISHES + CLEANING TECHNIQUES

Methods of Cleaning

Retouching Blemishes – Cloning

Retouching Blemishes – Healing + Patching

Touching Up Backgrounds

MODULE 5:

STRAIGHTENING + SHAPING

Methods of Modification

Local Free Transform

Puppet Warp + Straightening

Liquifying Subjects

MODULE 6:
COLOUR + LIGHT ENHANCING

Methods of Colour Enhancing

Dodge + Burn Technique PS Action

Changing Colour

Retouching Colour

Retouching – Dodge + Burn Technique