Natalia Taffarel High-End Retouching Workshop in Singapore

NATALIA TAFFAREL - Professional High End Retouching Artist from Argentina is coming to Singapore on ...19 to 20 February, 2011 for a 2 day High End Retouching workshop.
The retouching workshop will show Natalia's complete workflow from start to finish as she works first on a beauty image and then the hair image, working in Adobe Photoshop CS4. The main goal of the workshop is to show and explain the entire process and techniques needed for retouching high end beauty and hair images. Not only does Natalia show and explain the techniques she also explains the thought process behind the techniques and why they are used or why not or when. This makes for a much more thorough and complete learning tool, with the hope that the attendees can walk away with the knowledge needed to competently evaluate an image, envision the result in the mind's eye, plan the process and execute the work needed to achieve the vision.
Some of Natalia's Clients are:
* Michael Jackson
* Westlife
* Rihanna
* Fatboy Slim
* Florence and the Machine
* Alex Reid
* JLS - Jack the Lad Swing
* Pendulum
* Lily Cole
* MIA
* Vogue UK
* Elle UK - China - Germany
* Sugar UK
* Fabulous
* The Big Issue
* Q
* Sublime UK
* L'oreal
* Maybelline
* Revlon
* ASOS
* N Peal
* Wella
* Unilever
Join Natalia to improve yourselves in creating competitive glamorous images.
Date: 19 to 20 February, 2011
Early Bird: s$405 (til 1st January only)
Reg Fee: s$445
Lunch: Provided
Images for retouching: Provided
Venue: Singapore (location will only be disclosed to paid participants)
What to bring:
* Laptop with CS4 installed
* your sound mind :-)
This is a 2 day class of 30pax, no Photo Shoot, 9am to 5pm for Saturday and Sunday. First come, First Serve basis.

Workshop made affordable!
Down payment of s$200 is required to confirm your slot. Balance can be paid on workshop day. Make the donwpayment before 1st Jan and still avail of the early bird price.
Please PM me for registration or
contact xilverclaire@gmail.com/+65 9771-2430
-Xilver Claire Events

Bunch of retouching videos and tutorials here!!

1.) For those serious retoucher / Photoshop user this is a highly recommended site. This site got plenty of useful tutorials in Photoshop, from initial retouching consideration, color corrections and tone, structural enhancement (contouring), removing wrinkles, eyes/hair/face enhancement to skin softening all rolled into this one fantastic site.
And one great things about this are that all tutorials are in easy to follow video format....isn't that lovely? But the downside is, it requires you to have an active subscription to lynda.com. to gain access some major tutorials
nyahahaha!. Well you can watch the videos from introduction to color correction and tone for free but following topic after that you will need the subscription, not bad, errr...anyway here's the link for the tutorials. The main site is www.lynda.com and they offer online training not just  Photoshop but other programming stuff like Ajax, HTML, CAD, MS Office etc.

 2.) I know some of you specially those people who are into skin retouching may have heard of "Pixel level dodging and burning" well this is one of the common technique being used by some expert skin Retoucher and also the most tedious one because you will need to zoom in up to 500% (where you can see the pixel boxes of the image) to execute this which makes it time consuming, but it's a very effective skin retouching technique and the result is awesome. I personally use this DnB technique discuss here but in a bit different approach.


well here's some good tutorials for this non-destructive Pixel level DnB
~ from everythingsmagic
~ from Ronald Tan

This for now perhaps I will add some more rocking tutorial link here soon. Hope you, guys find this useful in your everyday Photoshop'ing. Enjoy!

Credits:
www.lynda.com
http://blog.ronaldntan.com/
everythingsmagic.deviantart

Some retouching tutorials

I have been watching this Digital Retouching video tutorial for quite sometime now and I want to share this with everybody (well for those who doesn't know this one yet) It came from one that I looked up in photo retouching Ms. Carrie Beene, I find it so simple and easy to follow compare to other retouching tutorial from youtube so I decided to share it here.

Some background: Carrie Beene has been retouching professionally since 2000. She has worked in or freelanced for many of the major retouching houses in NYC.  In 2005 she formed Otto Imaging, LLC. And now retouches through OTTO and CarrieNYC. Carrie has retouched for M.A.C., Revlon, Maybelline, Elizabeth Arden, L'oreal, Chantecaille, DEVA, Shape Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle, Glamour, Vogue, W, OK Magazine, Paper, V magazine, Vanity Fair, ID, Allure, Arena and many top NYC Beauty and Fashion Photographers. 
 She regularly do LIVE retouching tutorial for RetouchPRO.com together with Cris Tarantino, Amy Dresser and some other guys.

It's a simple clean retouch but it's very useful and informative since she discuss some PS shortcuts and color correction and her style of dodge and burn.
The video consist of 3 parts; Details, glamour retouching and color correction. Here's the link to the tutorials.

You check out here works here.

Enjoy

Retouching error?

Just got this from Model Mayhem "Emma Watson Now a One-Legged Wonder", the article is about Emma Watson, the young lady star of the movie Harry Potter who somehow lost her right limb on one particular photo for Burberry SS2010 ad. There are some discussion on Model Mayhem whether  if it's a big retouching error some or just about the angle or bad posing direction. I saw Mario Testino Portfolio online (he's the photographer of this picture) and his works are magnificent so I assumed he commissioned somebody to retouch this image. What do you think?

Here's the article