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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo - video tutorial

Photography & image editing 11 Videos · 1.8 h Video training · English

by Marco Kolditz

Learn how to perform a beauty retouch using Affinity Photo in this video tutorial. In over 1.5 hours, digital artist Kolditz shows you popular methods and techniques for removing blemishes and imperfections, softening wrinkles, whitening teeth and creating a more vivid appearance. Also included: frequency separation and dodge and burn. This will enhance your portraits many times over!

Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 10 lessons in over 1.5 hours of video tutorials
Remove skin blemishes, disorders, unwanted hair strands or wrinkles
Process colors and structures separately with frequency separation
Customize facial features, whiten teeth and apply matching make-up
Model a portrait using lighten and darken (Dodge & Burn)
Retouching with Affinity Photo - explained step by step by digital artist Marco Kolditz

Whether you already know the techniques and want to apply them in Affinity Photo or are new to beauty retouching - this tutorial will pick you up and guide you to the perfect retouching result!

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11 Videos, 106 minutes

Intro to the video training

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This is what you can expect in the video training "Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo - video tutorial"

You will learn how to use the tools skillfully to retouch your portraits effectively.

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This is what you can expect in the video training "Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo - video tutorial"

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo

10 Videos · 106 minutes

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 01 | Helpful presets

In this video on beauty retouching with Affinity Photo, video trainer Marco Kolditz gives you important tips on helpful presets that you should set before you start working with Affinity Photo.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 02 | Remove errors

Before getting down to the fine and detailed professional skin retouching, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you in this video how to remove the roughest skin blemishes and imperfections from the image to be edited.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 03 | Remove strands

When removing unwanted strands from the image, there are a few important editing methods to consider during beauty retouching in order to achieve the best possible result.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 04 | Skin retouching colors

Very professional skin retouching is achieved with the help of frequency separation. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to adjust the colors in the image without affecting details such as pores or hair in the image.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 05 | Skin retouching details

After spotty areas of skin have been corrected, unwanted details are now also removed or adjusted from the image using frequency separation, without affecting the colors in the image.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 06 | Reduce wrinkles

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to reduce wrinkles in the image in a simple and effective way.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 07 | Correct and whiten teeth

Watch this video to learn how to easily whiten yellow teeth, effectively touch up unsightly edges on teeth and match the rest of your teeth.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 08 | Face modeling

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz explains how to model a face using Affinity Photo, adjust facial features and make the image more symmetrical.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 09 | Colors and make-up

In this video you will learn how to adjust the general color look of a picture and how to convincingly apply suitable make-up to the model in the picture.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 10 | Lighten and darken

At the end of this video training, you will learn in this video how to make the image more vivid by lightening and darkening it.

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 01 | Helpful presets

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 02 | Remove errors

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 03 | Remove strands

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 04 | Skin retouching colors

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 05 | Skin retouching details

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 06 | Reduce wrinkles

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 07 | Correct and whiten teeth

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 08 | Face modeling

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 09 | Colors and make-up

11 min Open

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Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: 10 | Lighten and darken

11 min Open

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Learn about beauty retouching methods and how to apply them in Affinity Photo.

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Retouching portraits in Affinity Photo - these are the techniques!
Affinity Photo gives you all the tools you need for professional beauty retouching. Learn how to use these tools to retouch your portraits effectively in this 1.5-hour tutorial with 10 lessons.

Beauty retouching explained: from presets to digital make-up

Are you already familiar with various beauty retouching methods from other programs and want to apply them as quickly as possible in Affinity Photo? Or are you just starting out in portrait editing? Then welcome to an instructive tutorial that will enable you to retouch your own images to a high standard .

In concrete terms, this means that you will learn how to remove the worst skin blemishes, imperfections and unwanted highlights. You will learn procedures to soften wrinkles as desired, whiten teeth and correct their contours. You also use dodge & burn, i.e. lightening and darkening, to create a more vivid appearance. You apply suitable make-up, sculpt the face and make it more symmetrical.

You also apply frequency separation, which allows you to work on the colors and structures of a portrait independently of each other: remove blotchy areas of skin without affecting the details and then work on these same details without affecting the colors. On top: Tips on useful presets that will help you in beauty retouching with Affinity Photo .

Apply the beauty retouching methods to your photos

The video tutorial is designed to teach you important and popular beauty retouching methods, how to use them in Affinity Photo and how to apply them to your photos. To ensure that what is shown goes straight into your head and that you internalize the techniques, it is recommended that you follow the explanations directly on your own photos.

You will notice that the portrait that trainer Marco Kolditz is working on as an example is almost retreaded in the course of the training. The following applies to you: learn all the methods using the example and then only use what is beneficial for your photo and meets your requirements.

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Usable with: Serif Affinity Photo
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use

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Marco Kolditz

Marco Kolditz is a self-employed digital artist, editor and video trainer in Munich under the name MEER DER IDEEN. He also runs a blog magazine of the same name and a YouTube channel. In addition to video training for PSD tutorials, Marco Kolditz has already published numerous other video tutorials on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and written specialist articles on creative Photoshop composings for other specialist magazines such as DigitalPHOTO.

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