Video Training →Surreal Portrait Retouching in Photoshop Tutorial - PRO EDU

In this tutorial, Kelly Robitaille unveils her entire creative workflow for surreal and whimsical portraits. Beginning with a concept, she stresses the importance of giving her subjects backstory to create a photographic narrative and enhance character-driven emotion within her surreal portraiture. She then dives into the technical side of her work, demonstrating a number of Photoshop tools in interesting and unconventional ways specific to her style.
In this tutorial, Kelly Robitaille unveils her entire creative workflow for surreal and whimsical portraits. Beginning with a concept that is specific to the story she wants to tell in each photo – whether it be about something unusual or just someone looking off into space dreamily-she stresses giving subjects backstories so they have more dimensionality as people and teaches how to enhance features to support that story. This is a professional tutorial on how to retouch your photos using Photoshop in a surreal way. You'll learn everything about creating surreal portraits in Photoshop, including lighting tips, composition advice, post-production techniques and more!