30 Techniques Every Photographer or Retoucher Needs to Know

When you open a raw image in Photoshop, you see a world of possibilities. No matter how good is your photo, you’ll want to make it better. And that’s not a bad thing at all. But usually you see the problem or the potential area of improvement, and don’t know how to fix it or what to do.

In this four part video tutorial, Nathaniel Dodson from TutVid will teach you about 30 tips, tricks and techniques that any photographer retoucher really ought to know about Photoshop. Nathaniel covers a very broad array of things, and if you’re a total beginner this will be just perfect for you.

If you’ve been using Photoshop you’ve been doing photography or for a while there probably still be a bunch of stuff you pick up over the course of these four videos.

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