Portrait Retouching Redefined with Chris Orwig

Chris is an amazing teacher -- and he's all about efficiency, which I LOVE. He knows ALL the shortcuts and he's so skilled at smoothly working in repetition as he's teaching, so by the end of the class I found that I had effortlessly learned so many important shortcuts and had shifted my editing into warp speed! Such a great class, as are all his classes

Once you get past his scattered thought process and name dropping alot to be learned in this course.

AMAZING!! Very helpful in the little details that many photographers forgot/don't know to do. Thanks!

I purchased two courses on photoshop retouching while they were on sale. This one was the best investment of the two. Chris did an amazing job and he taught very well. I learned so much and I thank him and Creative Live for putting this together.

Awesome instructor. His delivery is the best. Pretty sure he said "f**kin" at 4:30 in the Small Blemishes vid. Love this guy.

It is a steal for $20. I learnt useful techniques, shortcuts, heard interesting stories, and learned to think about the philosophical aspect of post processing (why we do it, it should not be obvious). All in a well-paced and concise delivery that doesn't take hours to go through. Chris Orwig respects the student's attention and time. Highly recommended!

Lots of good information here. I just wish there would have been more of a walkthrough with the main image that is used for this lesson. It would be useful to see how he manipulated the color in the portrait of his friend for a beginner like me. I like the side by side comparison, but would like to know what else was changed in that photo besides getting rid of shine and softening skin.

Not sure where all the criticism is coming from. It is a good source for a basic workflow to create realistic portrait retouching. Probably not for the advanced Photoshop user, but I consider myself an intermediate and picked up some very good tips that I will consider and definitely add some to my workflow. I think Chris gave some good philosophy for retouching in the short amount of time. If you want a more involved course with more info then I would recommend Lindsay adler's portrait retouching, but even then her course is given over THREE days! In under 1.5 hours for this lecture, did you really expect more for $19-29? By the way if you look in the upper left hand corner of Lightroom it says Adobe PHOTOSHOP Lightroom, so if you want to be technical he was using Photoshop for all of his retouching! Would you have felt better if he was in Camera Raw? It's the same thing!

Photoshop and Lightroom work side by side when it comes to photography and most ideas and controls are cross platform. The instructors are well known in the photography industry so there is very good reason to believe they work in Lightroom! The courses are well broken down to review over again, the instructors (Platt, Grey, Nace, Orwig... and so many more) are awesome and this is something that I will continue to review over and over. Thanks!

Great course! I learned several tricks for LightRoom & Photoshop. I really enjoyed watching & listening to Chris!

Great course - started small and simple (and I was thinking that I wasn't going to learn anything), but got progressively more intense and enlightening. Really enjoyed learning from Chris (and not just about retouching), he was awesome.

Wow...one video into the class and I am already blown away. Can't wait for the next one...love this, thank you Chris for your energy and your vision.