With the requisite attention to detail and myriad of tasks you often have to perform, retouching can be a very time-consuming process, and as such, it is worth finding any little areas you can to make your workflow more efficient. This excellent video tutorial will give you a variety of tips for saving time while retouching without sacrificing any image quality.
Coming to you from Michael Woloszynowicz, this helpful video tutorial will show you a variety of ways to save more time in your retouching process. Retouching can be really time-intensive, and any little spots you can find where you can make it more efficient will often add up to big savings in the long run. One thing that has helped me a lot is setting up actions for different retouching environments in Photoshop. It can be a smidgen tedious to do so, but after I did it, my only regret was having not done it much sooner. Now, I just click on whichever button I need to depending on the type of photo I am editing, and out pops all the layers and adjustments I need, ready to go. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Woloszynowicz.
Thanks for sharing. A tip that I may add is the following: In 2020 I started using the less expensive on-line services just for file prep, e.g, pathing, and complicated spot corrections. This way I can focus on color, composition, and skin while saving a ton of time. Many people make the mistake of trying to outsource the entire process but you get what you pay for. https://www.photosophic.com/
The fake world. Retouching the picture of an lip filler-retouched person. Like playing with dolls. Grow up.
I like how you are trying to write an article to improve workflow efficiency... however...
Both Capture One and Lightroom allow you to do A LOT of those basic initial adjustments non destructively and simply batch process to all the similar images selected....
Why go to Photoshop and spend a lot of time learning and creating complicated actions..?
Photoshop wasn’t and isn’t designed for photographers, we started using it because there was nothing else, roll forward to present day and photographers have so many ‘non destructive’ programs to use. So cropping, levelling, dodging, burning, spot removal, skin tone adjustments (C1), colour adjustments can be done in one program... not destructively... and simply applied to the other chosen images...
So do please explain (to a numpty like me) why you decided to skip all of those in favour of opening up another bit of software and create a complicated set of actions... that still need adjusting..?
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Good point.