Areas that are addressed in this segment are setting up, working with hair, head shape, and eye and ear shapes. You will see how to fade wrinkles, remove ear piercings, reshape lips, clean up teeth, add eyelashes, shape the body, as well as using local contrast and sharpening the image.

What I absolutely love about High-End Industry Retouching Techniques: Series One is that it is a very focused and well defined training video. It does not go into any areas that do not have to do with fashion image retouching. It does not take you down any paths that don't relate to fashion image processing; there is the one segment on 3D, but it has a specific point to get across that would not be easily demonstrated on an image. The techniques are sound, well covered, and explained with good background.

The instructor does a really superior job of going over the the techniques that he uses and he takes the time to explain what he is doing and throughout he is giving time saving workflow techniques and shortcuts. The other thing I like is that you also get the original file that was created using a Hasselblad H3D 39 megapixel camera to work with and to follow along to apply the steps.

You can watch a demonstration of how to shape lips or remove an ear piercing online; please note that these videos are smaller and compressed for web viewing. You can also see some samples of what these techniques will produce in a finished image.

You can get High-End Industry Retouching Techniques: Series Oneon DVD from Photoshop Retouching & Photography Tutorial Videos The DVD Training Package is $195 USD and contains everything you need.

One final thing, the video on the DVD is very good quality, it is clear and the controls are easy to use. If you want to really learn the techniques of the High Fashion Photographers then you need to check out High-End Industry Retouching Techniques: Series One

High-End Industry Retouching Techniques: Series One Lesson Listing:

Part One: Retouching Tools

• Introduction
• Levels
• Color balance
• Hue/Saturation
• Clone Stamp
• Healing brush
• Brush tool
• History brush
• Dodge & burn
• Eye Dropper
• Liquify
• Warp
• Unsharp Mask

• Introduction
• 3D Modeling exercise
• ACR developing
• Retouch setup
• Image healing
• Hair shape with liquefy
• Head shape with warp
• Ear & eye shaping
• Modeling with dodge & burn
• Wrinkle fading
• Removing ear piercing
• Hiding ear veins
• Reshaping lips
• Adding lip color
• Removing eye veins
• Fading eye redness
• Teeth whitening
• Teeth de-yellowing
• Teeth shaping
• Adding lashes
• Filling in hair
• Hair shape liquefying
• Darkening lashes
• Making pupils pop
• Shaping the body
• Removing fly hairs
• Local contrast
• Sharpening