Beauty Retouching : From Portrait to Fashion

Beauty Retouching

Learn all the basics of beauty retouching in 1 weekend with retouching pro Chris Alvanas. Chris will cover all aspects of retouching a person’s face and body plus how to make a good photograph great and an average shot usable. Creative techniques on how to soften skin, brighten teeth, enhance eyes and deal with hair will be covered as well. Whether you shoot portraits, fashion, beauty, glamour or weddings, you are bound to garner invaluable retouching skills when you sign up for this course.

Course Objectives

• Applying “digital” make-up
• Overcoming the artifacts and problems caused by the camera
• Study images from portraits, weddings, beauty and glamour
• Emphasis on using the Wacom tablets and the Wacom advantage
• Straight talk on how to deal with clients and their particular desires

Itinerary

DAY 1: 9am-6pm

• Making an Image Map
• Analyzing Skin Tone with CMYK
• Removing and Reducing Distractions
• Getting Smooth Skin without loosing texture
• Sculpting with the Dodge and Burn
• Double Curve Adjustments for Blemishes
• The Eyes Have it All
• Color and Brightening the Iris
• The Whites of the Eyes and Red Eye
• Eye Lashes and Eye Brows – Brushes
• The Teeth – removing coloring
• The Lips -Color, Weight and the Smile

DAY 2: 9am-6 pm

• Dealing with Hair
• Getting Rid of Fly Away Strands and Uneven Hair
• Masking Hair with Channels
• Coloring and Enhancing Hair
• Shooting with the End In Mind
• Borrowing The Good To Replace The Bad
• Using Liquefy For Shaping
• Sometimes Warping Make Good Sense
• Becoming a Master of Illusion
• Selecting with Quick Mask
• Digital Make Up
• Writing Action to Increase Consistency
• Gritty High Contrast and High Key Effect

Studio

Bathhouse Studios
540 East 11th Street
New York, NY 10009

Directions

Subway

• Cross-town(8th Av/Williamsburg area): L Train to 1st Ave. stop. You’ll be on14th St. & 1st Ave. Walk East one block to Ave. A and hang a right. Walk down A ‘till you hit 11th St. Take a left down 11th & we are on the South (right) side closer to Avenue B.
• North/South : N, R Train (Brooklyn/Queens), 4, 5, 6 Train (Brooklyn/Bronx) To 14th St & Union Sq (East) stop. Walk east on 14th St. to Ave A. Take right on A (south) till you hit 11th St. Take left on 11th . We are on the
  South (right) side closer to Avenue B.

Parking

• Nice, LLC – 212.475.5262
  311 E 11th St btw 1st & 2nd Aves
  New York, NY (Please call for pricing)

Cost per person

$1899 per person

Limited to: 20 participants

Terms and Conditions

Included:

• Quest workshop fee
• Reviews
• All lectures

Not included:

• Flights for out-of-state attendees
• Any required hardware or software
• Lodging
• Lunch

Chris Alvanas

Chris Alvanas is a digital photographer and photoshop maven. He is a gifted and sought after post-production artist for high-end beauty retouching. As a photographer, Chris is known for his commercial quirky kids images. His fine art side delves into the worlds of jazz and dance by illustrating the musician’s relationship with the instrument, as well as the motion of dance: his images are anything but static. Chris believes every-thing starts with perspective, and the beauty of the shot lives on the fringe of awkwardness: a pleasantly alarming place.

Chris’s images have appeared in Nikon World Magazine, PopularPhotography, Nikon Product Guide, Nikon Pro Website, and in the 2007and 2008 Nikon Calendars. His clients include: Nikon, Kodak, Procter & Gamble, Safilo Eyewear-Italy, Armadani Jewelers, Bob’s Store, Samsonite, Newport International Polo, American Photo Magazine, Popular Photography Magazine, Rubberball and Getty Images.

As a retoucher, Chris is a regular contributor to Layers Magazine and is included in the 2008 Layers Magazine best of the year compilation DVD.

He is currently working with Katrin Eismann on the second edition of her book “Masking and Compositing”, due to be released in Fall 2008. Chris is a faculty member at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University and previous owner of Hope Gallery in Bristol, RI.www.lightyearimaging.com

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Gear to Bring

The following is required for the class, except as indicated:

• Laptop Computer
• Wacom Tablet (optional)
• Storage Media and Reader
• Portable Hard Drive (at least 40-80GB)
• Software: AdobePhotoshop CS3