The site interconnects with www.grygarness.com where you'll find more images.
Zoom in on some of my examples of Beauty retouching. This is an area of imaging where all the Photoshop skills are put to the test. It relies on a good understanding of layers, masks and channels. It demands good painting technique, a steady hand and a good 'feel' for brushes. It demands a good eye for aesthetics and faces, and understanding of texture and light. All these things develop in time, as we spend hours and hours retouching... Patience is important, but a little impatience is no bad thing either, and a willingness to be flexible in technique and search for new and quicker solutions will save your eyesight and time. I believe in working smart and light, but accurately. Take a look at some retouching before/after examples
The Adobe Photoshop training service is for anyone with a serious interest in imaging. Unlike many of the tutors/courses around, I don't just teach PS as a computer programme. I teach professional retouching techniques for a high-quality image result. The aim is to use a wide range of techniques to make good images great, and never to use it to rescue images that have no merit in the first place. Photoshop should not be an excuse for poor photography, and therefore my teaching methods benefit professional photographers the most. Colour and tone is essential. A digital image is just a mosaic of pixels. They can be moved about or added/subtracted to, but the rest is all about colour. Did you know that sharpening is in reality just a change of colour and contrast? And that when you blur, all you do is make the pixels more similar in colour? A 'healthy' photographic Photoshop image has detail and variation of colour in every area (even the highlights and shadows). When you over-work an image, this fine detail is obliterated, and we cause 'clipping' and posterization or banding. On the other hand, just the right amount of colour adjustment can bring out amazing sharpness and break the colours apart in a non-destructive way.
Everything I do and teach is supported by one of my written tutorials and chapters from my books, published on Eureka Imaging Publications. You can download a few of these free Photoshop PDF tutorials from the other site. Because I believe in never standing still, I am constantly researching and testing others' methods, and often modifying them to suit my workflow. I have taught hundreds of people from the bottom up, but also trained further those who are professional full-time retouchers. In my own retouching work (and commissioned retouching) I am constantly faced with interesting challenges, and finding new solutions. Some of it is shown here on the site, but there are a lot of retouching images I can't show, for client reasons. But please feel free to browse.
