Pratik Naik

This sneak peeks into the world of high-end retouching will show you how to edit your work and the best practices when working with a professional retoucher. While Pratik Naik's expertise is fashion and beauty retouching, the presentation will include many tips that can be transferred to any genre of photography. Pratik will be sure to accommodate the diversity of the crowd.

During the presentation, we will take a look at retouching from a professional retoucher's point of view: we'll discuss the history and ethics of retouching, considerations to help make retouching your work more accessible, and the best way to set up your workflow when working with a professional retoucher.

Using both landscape and fashion images, we'll consider what adjustments and tools can be used on RAW files to create a solid base before taking them into Photoshop. Once that preparation is complete, we'll move into Photoshop for more in-depth work.

Pratik will demonstrate a traditional workflow in Photoshop using portrait images. The first step is to set a game plan for portrait retouching: note aspects to consider before attempting to edit photographs, discuss layer structure, and then go through each layering step by step, highlighting which tools are best paired with which layers to produce a pleasing result.

In the end, you will come away with a better understanding of the world of retouching, the tools that could benefit photographers, how to improve your retouching workflow, and how to set yourself up for success when working with a professional retoucher.