SURREAL
RETOUCHING
In ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Many photographers are accomplished at bringing their vision to life. Kelly Robitaille has turned her dark and dreamlike visions into a series of surreal and whimsical portraits. In this tutorial Kelly shares her portrait retouching methods, including actions, overlays and textures, which will allow you to create unusual and surreal portraits.
Are you ready to learn how Kelly creates her iconic Whimsical Waif's in her original and unique Photoshop Retouching workflow? Whether you adapt her style, or modify her technique and make it your own, this retouching tutorial is a great tools for photographers who shoot portraits to learn unique methods to add page stopping imagery to your portfolio.
Using common Photoshop practices like dodge and burn, frequency separation, compositing, blend modes, the liquify tool, and puppet warp, Kelly's workflow provides a fresh look at portrait retouching as an artful practice more than a trite and repetitive process. Kelly teaches how to manipulate human form with purpose, invoke emotion with characters, and use photoshop textures to create depth and atmosphere within images.
Finally Kelly challenges you with a homework assignment, providing a RAW image and character story to create an image of your own.
Many photographers are accomplished at bringing their vision to life. Kelly Robitaille has turned her dark and dreamlike visions into a series of surreal and whimsical portraits. In this tutorial Kelly shares her portrait retouching methods, including actions, overlays and textures, which will allow you to create unusual and surreal portraits like one of her personal projects and most popular images below. Learn how to create images like this one using her tecniques and your creativity.
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Kelly uses her entire workflow that she uses in her personal WAIF series and gives you everything you need with her RAW files to practice and adopt some or all of her techniques.
It's really incredible the creativity and vision you can bring to your RAW images in post. preview the before and after images above and below to see where she starts, and the final result.
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Kelly Robitaille is a Canadian based commercial retoucher and photographer. Her deep skills as a retouching artist has her working for clients around the globe. Kelly is widely known for her 'Whimsical Waif' portrait series which feature exaggerated body form and large eyes. Her non-traditional approach to portraits and retouching have given her a unique and instantly recognizable look.
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PORTRAIT RETOUCHING WORKFLOW
In this tutorial Kelly Robitaille unveils her entire creative workflow for taking surreal and whimsical portraits from concept to realization. Beginning with a concept, Kelly stresses the importance of giving her subjects backstory to create a photographic narrative and enhance character-driven emotion within her surreal portraiture. She then dives into the technical side of her work demonstrating a number of Photoshop tools in interesting and unconventional ways specific to her style, yet easily translated into nearly any style or genre.
Using common Photoshop practices like dodge and burn, frequency separation, compositing, blend modes, the liquify tool, and puppet warp, Kelly's workflow provides a fresh look at portrait retouching as an artful practice more than a trite and repetitive process. Kelly teaches how to manipulate human form with purpose, invoke emotion with characters, and use photoshop textures to create depth and atmosphere within images.
Finally Kelly challenges you with a homework assignment, providing a RAW image and character story to create an image of your own.
21 Total Videos
3 Hour Course
7 RAW Images Included
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Kelly's PS Actions Included
$99 Value FREE
Overlays + Textures
$19 Value FREE
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SPANISH SUBTITLES Included
Adobe Photoshop
Universal PS Workflow
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With every tutorial purchase at PRO EDU, you can own the tutorial for life, download the files AND access our Learn Platform and APP in iTunes or Google with offline viewing, for life.
After purchase you can immediately download the videos and extra assets and files in 1080P HD with English and Spanish subtitles, or instantly log in to our platform at Learn.proedu.com to access, stream, or download offline in our mobile app available for iOS and Android. This is great for plane rides or anywhere where you might not have access to great wifi.
Our Unlimited PRO PLAN unlocks every single tutorial in our catalogue and grants you unlimited access for 12 months to watch, learn, and create with the additional assets, RAW files, plugins, and files that come with each tutorial.
For less that the price of coffee per day, you can invest in your education and unlock your potential at PRO EDU with every single instructor and tutorial.
We have a 30 day satisfaction guarantee, so if this tutorial, or any tutorial isn't exactly what you needed, you have 30 days to send us an email to exchange for another tutorial or store credit. Feel free to email us before hand or ask a community member for suggestions if you are looking to learn something specific.
Our methodology in tutorial creation takes into account that everyone is at a different level. We make sure to cover the fundamentals but also do deep dives with many explanations and step by step procedures to ensure that you can follow along. In addition our tutorials come with the RAW or working files so you can follow along.
Many photographers are accomplished at bringing their vision to life. Kelly Robitaille has turned her dark and dreamlike visions into a series of surreal and whimsical portraits. In this tutorial Kelly shares her portrait retouching methods, including actions, overlays and textures, which will allow you to create unusual and surreal portraits.
It's really incredible the creativity and vision you can bring to your RAW images in post. Tap or click on the image below to see the image straight out of camera, and see where her vision and a few methods in Photoshop can take you.
Kelly Robitaille is a Canadian based commercial retoucher and photographer. Her deep skills as a retouching artist has her working for clients around the globe. Kelly is widely known for her 'Whimsical Waif' portrait series which feature exaggerated body form and large eyes. Her non-traditional approach to portraits and retouching have given her a unique and instantly recognizable look.
Get this tutorial and EVERY tutorial we've every made plus UNLIMITED access to stream, download offline, and download every single RAW, Action, or Asset from every tutorial for 12 months with the UNLIMITED PRO PLAN.
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