Module 1 consists of two parts.

• Webinar recording where I answer the common questions.
• Video lesson about Inspiration, visually trained eyes and samples of editing process of different levels of difficulty.

1. Raw file. Importance of the difference of files in different cameras.
2. Cameras' color profile
3. Under- and Over- exposed images. Things to pay attention to.
4. Lens and its impact on editing
5. Conclusion about the auto-regime and presets.
6. Lightroom. Toning, color changing, highlights, reference.
7. Lightroom. High and Low keys.

On the photo below you may see an example of
optimizing and toning of the photo in Lightroom (no retouch, just Lightroom).

Before the final color correction in Photoshop, before adding special effects or getting to color editing nuances, it's important to brush up the image.

Part 1. Getting rid of waste, useless details using different techniques.

Part 2. Optimizing a potentially interesting image, saving a good concept/idea, and correcting the exposure, colors, sky, etc.

See an example of the image below

PART 1. Simple Retouch in Photoshop. Basic tools
PART 2. Advanced Retouch in Photoshop. Frequency Separation.
PART 3. "Heavy artillery" when it's an SOS case.
PART 4. Bonus-lesson: Digital makeup.

See an example of the SOS image below

PART 1. The theory of the color, tools in action. Essential principles of compatible color combinations.

PART 2. 'Hardcore' color correction. Color changing of the image without cuts.
See an example of the image below

PART 1. Unusual way of converting to BW via layers, remembering that BW is not just getting rid of colors and adding contrast. Focus on channels.

PART 2. BW as a tool for the color. Freckles.

See an example of the image below

Fine-Art editing is not about special effects or a magic color. It's about attention to details.
With no idea, no story, no concept, no mood, with a lot of visual waste – it's almost next to impossible to get such an image to any better, even with color correction or some texture.
Thus, a huge part of my editing process lays in giving to my images that painterly effect.
This lesson includes all the detailed steps of the editing of one image.
PART 1. Selecting the image, replacing a part of the image, what to do plan.
PART 2. Getting the image to the picturesque/painterly balance.
PART 3. Color palette, sharpness and export.

See an example of one of the variants from the lesson.