Full Beauty Time-Lapse Retouch Compressed Into 8 Minutes | Speed Retouching

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In this time-lapse video, you can follow me retouching a beauty image from start to finish! Starting off with healing blemishes and stray hairs, going through the process of dodging and burning and finally do local and global color corrections, all within just 8 minutes.

Difficulty: Easy

Read Time: 15 min

High-End Retouching is a Passion of mine! One can Spend hours on retouching one image and can get lost in time doing so. It is important to stay focused and on track while working.

This video showcases all the important techniques used to retouch high-end beauty images. There are little to none shortcuts and nothing is left out.

You can follow me retouching from start to finish, starting off with healing blemishes and stray hairs, going through the process of dodging and burning and finally do local and global color corrections, all within just 8 minutes.

Enjoy!

~ Daniel

Speed Retouch

In retouching, it is not just all about speed. However, efficiency is key in retouching! Speed comes with making the right decisions and working with as few steps as possible to get you to your goals.

Speed retouching per se would mean to work incredibly fast. But when we talk about such speed retouching tutorials, we often mean, they are just speed-up versions of the original video to save you time

Time-Lapse Retouch

When you are watching full tutorials on retouching, it is hard for important information to get lost over the span of hours and hours of video content. Thus the goal of time-lapse retouching videos is to save you time and show the whole process in just a few minutes. It can provide a great overview of what has been done to an image and what techniques have been used. All without spending hours and hours watching a retouching tutorial at 1x speed.

Just skip the unimportant stuff!

Follow My Retouching Workflow On Crack!

let me just give you some information as of what has been done here while retouching this image:

  • Excessive healing/cloning
  • correction / fill-in for the eyebrows
  • correction of the lips
  • background selection / adjustment
  • enhancing make-up shine (eyes)
  • dodging and burning (correction)
  • dodging and burning (to enhance shine)
  • evening out skin colors (hue/saturation)
  • global color and contrast adjustments

Retouching Time-Lapse As A Tool Of Education

I hope you enjoy these speed retouching or retouching timelapse videos and I can promise you, when watching a few of them you will much quicker get a sense of the overall workflow in beauty retouching, the techniques used. On top of all of that, it is much easier to compare how different people work, the decisions they make and to discover the tools professional retouchers are using throughout their edits.

Daniel

Daniel

After years of working in a stressful IT environment and combating mental illness, Daniel finally found fulfillment in the creative field. By using the process of retouching as therapy and drawing from his technical background Daniel grew to become an award-winning, internationally published retoucher, and Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert in less than two years. His retouching agency, BOUTiQUE RETOUCHING, offers both professional retouching services for high-end clients as well as professional education in an effort to help others reach the same results that Daniel takes pride in. Daniel will happily answer any of your questions!
Daniel

Daniel

After years of working in a stressful IT environment and combating mental illness, Daniel finally found fulfillment in the creative field. By using the process of retouching as therapy and drawing from his technical background Daniel grew to become an award-winning, internationally published retoucher, and Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert in less than two years. His retouching agency, BOUTiQUE RETOUCHING, offers both professional retouching services for high-end clients as well as professional education in an effort to help others reach the same results that Daniel takes pride in. Daniel will happily answer any of your questions!

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