Professional Hair Retouching

Intermediate to Advanced · over 3.5 hours

Even with an experienced hairstylist on set, the responsibility for flawless hair in the final images typically falls on the retoucher.

In this course, across 26 lessons (see full course outline below), you will work through a variety of tactics and methods that will help you take the struggle out of hair retouching, save you time, and ensure you always have the best approach for any challenging situations when dealing with hair in beauty, fashion, and portrait photography.

▶︎ Created by Julia Kuzmenko McKim and Michael Woloszynowicz, professional beauty and fashion photographers, retouchers, and educators. Every lesson distills decades of combined industry experience into the refined retouching methods we use in commercial work.

Who is this course for?

Photographers and retouchers who are already familiar with basic retouching tools and techniques, and want to be able to handle hair retouching at a professional level, so they don't have to turn down paid beauty, fashion, or portrait projects that require hair retouching work.

While hair retouching is often seen as a tedious task, a skilled retoucher can make a big difference in the final image by delivering more polished hair retouching results.

This skill is especially valuable for freelance retouchers aiming to work with commercial clients such as beauty, wellness, and lifestyle brands.

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Once internalized through deliberate practice, these skills, along with your skin and beauty retouching, will open a range of additional career paths beyond basic freelance work.

Bonus: Downloadable practice images, custom actions, and brushes are included.

▶︎ This course is included in the All-in-One Beauty Retouch bundle: 4 courses, over 21 hours of video lessons, individual courses at $569, bundle price: $287.

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Professional Hair Retouching

Introduction & Downloads
4 lessons
1. Welcome to the Course
2. Additional Materials & Downloads
3. [Download] ▶︎ Brand Work Guide & Vocabulary
4. Legal Notice
Module 1: Outside Hair Edge Cleanup
5 lessons
1. Introduction: Typical Challenges & Course Outline
2. AI-Powered Photoshop Tools for Hair Retouching
3. Removing Hair in Bulk
4. Drawing In Hair Strands For Realism
5. Adding Noise to Minimize Retouching Footprint
Module 2: Interior Hair Cleanup
3 lessons
1. Dealing with Stray Hairs Crossing Face
2. Using Spot Healing Brush for Hair Retouching
3. Removing Hairs Crossing Within the Interior of the Hair
Module 3: Advanced Outside Periphery Cleanup
5 lessons
1. Grafting Hair to Quickly Rebuild Problematic Areas
2. Stray Hairs Clean-up: Brute-Force Method
3. Advanced Edge Grafting, Part 1
4. Advanced Edge Grafting, Part 2
5. Advanced Edge Grafting, Part 3
Module 4: Interior Hair Grafting
2 lessons
1. Covering Up Revealed Scalp
2. Filling in Gaps in Hair Against the Background
Module 5: Dodging & Burning, Color Correcting and Shaping
4 lessons
1. Dodging & Burning for Hair Retouching
2. Color Correcting Hair Shade Inconsistencies
3. Dodging & Burning to Contour Hair
4. Shaping Hair
Module 6: Advanced Hair Repair
4 lessons
1. Grafting Skin to Cover Up Baby Hair
2. Using Frequency Separation to Clean up Forehead
3. Fine-Tuning the Results Achieved So Far
4. Refining the Appearance of the Created Hairline
Module 7: Wig Hairline Repair
1 lesson
1. Wig Hairline Repair
What's Next?
4 lessons
1. Code Of Ethics & Professional Practice
2. Professional Development
3. ♥️ Please Share Your Thoughts!
4. ▶︎ Make 25-30% commission as an RA Affiliate

What you will find inside:

Theory & Practice

Over 3.5 hours of video lessons.

We’ve distilled the most impactful information so that you can learn and apply your new retouching skills as efficiently as possible.

Practice Files

Beauty images, shot by the authors.

Each module includes practice beauty and other images, bonus materials, and practice assignments to help you quickly internalize what you are learning.

Real-World Pro Approach

Our custom Actions & Brushes.

A professional workflow perfected through a decade of commercial work by Julia Kuzmenko McKim and Michael Woloszynowicz.

Here's what our students are saying:

Ethan

Freelance Retoucher

“I bought all the courses from Retouching Academy, and they never disappointed me! I learned so much and improved my retouching skills from these courses over the last 2 years, and now I have my own clients, and I also work with some well-known brands such as ELLE, Gucci, LV, L'Officiel, etc."

Valentina Duran

Freelance Retoucher

“Thanks to RA courses and RA panels, I was able to take my retouching skills to a new level and understand how to make it a business that prospers. I learned new approaches to the techniques that I already knew, and my workflow became much faster and leaner."

Margarita Ptitsyna

Freelance Retoucher, Avenue Studio

“Retouching Academy courses are really the best! They teach you the professional way of retouching: how to make your pictures look perfect, but still natural; how to speed up your workflow, and how to organize your PSD files so you will always be able to make any corrections at any stage of your retouching process."

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