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Affinity Photo: Portrait Retouching Essentials

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Affinity Photo: Portrait Retouching Essentials

This Essentials Course will teach you how to become Professional Photo Retoucher and Editor

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2025

language icon Language - English

person icon Joseph Khalkho

English [CC]

category icon Photography and Videos,Photography Tools,Affinity Photo

Lectures -11

Resources -1

Duration -2 hours

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Course Description

This course will teach you how to retouch photos in Affinity Photo. You will learn how to use Affinity Photo for professional photo retouching and master portrait retouching by the end of this course.

After learning photo retouching from this course you will also be able to take your own retouching projects and make money.

You do not need any previous knowledge of photo retouching or photo editing. You only need to have a very basic knowledge of Affinity Photo.

In this course, we will learn the process of removing all flaws from a photograph, which commonly entails colour and tone correction, the removal of blemishes and under-eye circles, as well as changes to brightness, contrast, and saturation. Apart from that, we will learn many more things.

I have divided this course into different sections so that you can learn everything about photo retouching in Affinity Photo.

These sections are as follows

  • How to Prepare a Photo for Retouching

  • Face Reshaping

    Introduction to the Liquifying Tool and reshaping the face

  • Removing Face Blemishes.

    Healing with different tools

    Working with skin texture

  • Frequency Separation

  • Dodge and Burn

  • Hair Retouching

    Selecting Hair

    Using Frequency Separation on Hair

    Hair Retouching

    Dodge and Burn on hair

  • Eye Retouching

    Healing

    Changing Eye Color

    Dodge and Burn on eyes

  • Final Adjustments

    Adjusting Color

    Adjusting Contrast and Brightness

    Sharpening

We will also learn to use Layers, Filters, Adjustment Layers, Layer Masks, and other tools used for photo retouching in Affinity Photo.

Let's start!

Who this course is for?

  • Anyone who wants to learn portrait retouching in Affinity Photo.
  • New Photographers and Image Editors.

Goals

  • You will be able to retouch any portrait.
  • You will have practice images for master portrait retouching.
  • You will learn how to work with skin.
  • How to remove all the blemishes.
  • Eyes Retouching.
  • Hair Retouching.
  • You will also learn many retouching techniques.
  • such as Frequency Separation.
  • Dodge and Burn.
  • How to adjust colours.
  • You will learn to adjust contrast.
  • You will learn to adjust sharpness.
  • You will learn to use adjustment layers.
  • How to use a layer mask.
  • How to change eye colour.
  • You will learn to change lip colour.
  • Removing blemishes without losing skin texture.
  • Work with Raw images.

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of Affinity Photo.
  • Nothing else.
Affinity Photo: Portrait Retouching Essentials

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Introduction

1 Lectures
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Preparing the Photo for Retouching

1 Lectures
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Face Reshaping

1 Lectures
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Blemish Removal

1 Lectures
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Face Painting

1 Lectures
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Frequency Separation

1 Lectures
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Dodge and Burn

1 Lectures
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Hair Retouching

1 Lectures
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Lips Retouching

1 Lectures
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Eyes Retouching

1 Lectures
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Final Adjustment

1 Lectures
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Instructor Details

Joseph Khalkho

Joseph Khalkho

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