How I Edit and Retouch Fashion Portraits - Photoshop Tutorial 

I THINK I SPEAK FOR EVERYONE, BUT THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. THANKS JESSICA

If you hold down shift on your keyboard while clicking on the "Open" button from Camera Raw, Photoshop will open your image as a Smart Object. The beauty of this is you can double-click the photo's thumbnail in the Layers panel and it will re-open the Camera Raw window with all your saved corrections. That way you can go back and update any settings as necessary after the fact.

I need to stop watching these videos. I'm such a beginner and this is so intimidating

I‘m like:oh that looks good, keep it like that *jessica does next step* Holy ok but now *next step* Ok well wow

Only partway through and already I’m learning a lot. Thank you for another great video!

me after watching the entire video on how she got her photo to look like that : how she do that

Jaw dropped when I saw the final before and after. I've been editing in Lightroom for 4 years and I think now is the time to make the transition to start using Photoshop more. The way she has control over the background and skin tones is insane. Amazing video and super easy to follow!

“YOU WENT FROM WINTER IN DETROIT TO BOOM YOURE IN MIAMI”😂😂

Hey! I’m eleven, I’m taking photography class, and I’m trying to learn how I can do better! Tysm for this editing video, I knew nothing about retouching and this really helped me!

When you begin with editing photos, you often don't know when to stop - so it's either missing the finer details, or, more often, it's totally overdone. Eyes white like snow in the sunlight, a skin smoother than Barbie plastic, dramatic effects more fit for the Apocalypse: all that was natural gone with the wind. But the good news is - you learn by doing it more often, and by going back to your previous work, and look critically at the way you used all these possibilities that come with Photoshop. What can also be helpful in the beginning - do all these adjustments, save the file with all the different layers intact, then look at it 24 hours later. You will often see where you went overboard more easily, and then you have the ability to correct it right away.

Every stage looked so good, how do you know when to stop?! *never going to get the hang of this photography/editing lark* 😭

Hey Jessica! I’m a 12 y/o girl a year ago i discovered your channel and I loveee it! Later I want to be a photographer/traveller and you are a very big inspiration for me so I Just really wanted to Thank you!💗

Hi Jessica. I haven’t watch all of your retouching videos but I did look for and learn how to make the two frequency layers and how to use them. Awesome! I would like to suggest a technique if you are working on photos of older people. If you want to minimize wrinkles without getting rid of them completely (yes, wrinkles are cool), I have had the best results by using the eraser tool with a soft edge brush on low opacity on the texture layer to soften the wrinkles. The healing brush just wipes the, out completely which I don’t always want. The stamp tool can add a layer of color or other texture I don’t really want. Anyway, just thought I’d share my experience using the techniques you have taught me. Thanks a bunch!

Part of me is here for the jokes 😂

Can we please get a tutorial on how you've been doing those grainy, film looking pictures on your Instagram? 💙

Love this tutorial, their really helping me😍😍 So obsessed with your channel, specially since I’m trying to be a better photographer😍

Why have netflix if you have these editing tutorials? This gave me so much inspiration and new knowledge! Well done Jessica!

We love your bad jokes, Jess :’)

wow the way she colour corrects is beautiful

I've been following you for a few years now. I'm not a photographer I just love watching your videos!

Every photo-retouching tutorial you put out, levels me up x10 ... techniques I shall take to my photo-editing grave. Thank you

Thank you. My goal is to learn more Photoshop this year. I'm pretty comfortable in Lightroom. But not in Photoshop. And I don't really know why. With everything I learn. There's this point in the beginning where I need other people to show me stuff. And then I get over some kind of a hump. And I can then learn on my own. Just by experimenting. And going through the menus. But Photoshop is not that way. I just can't get over that hump. It's like every selection on the menu does things I can't imagine, and needs me to do things that I don't know need to be done. But I'm in. I'm going to watch videos even if I don't understand them. Hoping that some time this year I will get over that hump.

I love that you are not a “technical” photographer... because your work doesn’t get boring to look at.... I love watching your channel because you have fun... that is what is so inspiring... leaving my full time job in July in hopes of making photography my thing officially... I want to get a group of my photog friends together to do a shoot the same model challenge!! So fun!!! Keep up the great content👌🏻

Wooow! I'm trying to learn photoshop again and refresh my memory and everything & girl you just saved me! THANKSSSSSS

So many small changes make such a HUGE difference!

I really appreciated how you explained your reasoning behind why you did certain adjustments and showed us what a certain adjustment did. I often get confused in those parts when watching editing tutorials. THANKS JESSICA :)

LOVED THIS VIDEO! Having someone with a personality who is actually working in the field showing us how to do something? GOLD.

this is what you do for every photo. that's a lot of damn work

MY LAYER ADJUSTMENTS QUEEN

“Me being serious and then BAM - a bad joke” 😂😂😂 story of my life Thank you for this amazing tutorial!

do more of these! its exactly the type of video i need as a starting photographer. 4 photographers shoot the same model is also very helpful and inspiring. :)

I come from video/video editing I recently started experimenting with photos and just yesterday tried photoshop, this helps but also I'm figuring out different techniques 🤘🏼

i love the end result but I also really love the stage of the picture at 13:53 ! :)

Thank You so so much! I'm a new chilean photography student and this is an amazing class for me, love it!

I literally do 90% of my adjustments in Camera RAW. One trick I use for lifting shadows is moving the dehaze slider to about 10-21 to the minus side, the add detail. I don't really like what clarity does to skin.

More videos like these please! I’m amazed at how good it looks

I wanna see a tutorial with old people :3 Sometimes I take portraits of my family members and I'm super confused about what to do with their skin, since it's so different from the models that you always see on tutorials

THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST EDITING TUTORIAL FROM JESSICA, THANK YOU!

love the final result, pretty natural

This guy has made my photoshop skills so much better than they were when I first started to use photoshop

My favorite video of yours! They’re so helpful and I love seeing the before and after. I would love to watch more of these from you❤️

Jessica, I just have to say, how much you and Brandon ( who I assume is a close or just a friend I yours ) have inspired me to do photography. I love yours and Brandon’s work and I love every single one of both of your videos. If it wasn’t for you and Brandon who inspired me to start photography, I wouldn’t be getting a camera for my 13th birthday this year, and I wouldn’t be doing photography in year ten ( I am British so it isn’t grade, and I’ll be doing it in 2 years time ) as an extra lesson. You and Brandon have created a whole new world for me to explore and learn in, and i thank you and Brandon so much for that. You and Brandon are my inspirations and I adore you both so much. If you see this, please share this with Brandon so he can know too 💕

Thank you, ma'am, I am an amateur photographer and I generally do street and documentary photography. Recently I've started practising portrait and I was struggling to figure out the retouching and colouring of portraits and your video helped me a lot. Still a long way ahead for me.

This is so subtle yet so beautiful! Thank you for sharing your process with us :)

this SAVED me in my photography class for our portraiture project! my pictures came out so good

Little tip* Not sure if same panel but editing thumbnail using screenshot from video. In CC 2020 go to filter then camera raw. It opens this kind of panel to follow tutorial 😊 hope that helps someone lol as I was searching for this....

Not even doing fashion portrait edit but my boss wanted me to edit tourism commercial photos and this is going to help me a bunch!

Your edits are amazing. I love seeing photographers use photoshop to color edit as it is usually always lightroom now

11:20 I have NEVER seen nothing like that before. Great method !

thank you for making your videos Jessica, you are my favourite all time fashion photographer

Gorge!! I love watching photos transform!

I simply tuned in because I know the amount of time and energy that one has to invest when using Photoshop. I would use it to make GIFs for Tumblr. And can I just say this was extremely satisfying to watch lol! I also appreciate how this had shed some tips on simple yet profound adjustments 💖👏🏽✨ I would hire you any day to do my photography

I love the final photo and the colors in it! I was just wanting to know how you keep coloring consistent with other similar photos from the same shoot? Thank you for the video!

Hi Jessica ... what a great tutorial. I whizzed through it on the bus to work - I’m going to attack it tonight. I love your self-deprecating, edgy humour too. Far less robotic and serious than many of the other how-to’s!

Great tutorial, thank you! Could you do a tone curve tutorial some day? As in, how to use the tone curve to better suit your image? I know how it works but I always get stuck at this point in editing :/

WOW - thank you so much for sharing this! learning so much girl!!! I'm rebuying the Adobe cloud but girl my wallet lol

thank you so much. just inspired me to go out and shoot more. means a lot, can't stress this enough!

Great instructive video! So much to take in! Thnaks for this!

Jess you're amazing! I could watch this over and over🤯

Great video.. Really find your skin coloring and general color grading very useful. Thank you.

Superb control and execution! I love how you deploy yellow, selective color and gradients

17:18 the simpler way to copy mask is to press and hold option key and drag the mask that you want to copy and drop it where you want.

That model is gorgeous

This is the best kinda tutorial I have watched thus far. It was so easy to follow. Loved it!

this is the best tutorial ive ever seen

thanks a lot for this video! I'm a new fan and tbh I just legit started taking photos for like months ago. Before this video I was like random editing my photos on lightroom and it all based on my instincts. So thanks a lot for showing me how to edit photos as professional and thoughts behind it. I would LOVE more videos like this if you still have time for that. THANKS!

Jessica! Youre retouching skills are on 🔥💯♥️

you're sooo good! love seeing female photographers and editors, so inspiring:)

Great job Jessica!

I love watching your videos. They are so fun and informational to watch. Thank you for the resources!

BLESS. Thank you so much for this! I'm new to Photoshop and usually I'm okay to below average at editing but Photoshop maybe me look like a deer on ice. So keen to have a crack following this method!

THANK YOU JESSICA!

This photo came out really good! I absolutely love the process! Great work Jessica!

i still remember 6 years ago when my style was this bad! good luck jessi you will get better you're half way there!

Thank youu for teaching these features i know nothing about after years of using Photoshop

Good to be here for this added knowledge Thanks

"that's a baseball reference - I've never been to a baseball game" 😂 Same lmfao

Completely different work flow to me, which is brilliant love learning thanks for sharing, great result can't wait to try this.

Loved this video! You are great at retouching! I really enjoyed watching you working!

What a magnificent job Jessica. If you don't mind I will be using this technique as a step by step method myself.

I don't even have photshop and here I am lol you are great! I just started photography and your videos have helped me so much! Thank you and happy 2021 Jessica :)

I loove this tutorial! Thank you,Jessica!

Where did you learn photoshop from? who is/was your fav instructor? I don't understand which colors and channels to pick and how much to raise or lower them...you seem to know exactly which color to go to get the desired look...but definatly learned a lot of tips and tricks so thank you! if you could do a video on your thought process when editing that would be really cool too

i just subscribed because your personality is my spirit animal lol

I literally followed this to edit my first ever portrait in photoshop. Thanks so much! Hoping to learn much more.

Does anyone else feel like maybe Jessica just really needs a hug and a friend?

Hey Jessica! Absolutely loved the tutorial! Another non-destructive way I like to edit photos is that I open the RAW file in Photoshop, once the Camera Raw dialogue box opens, I open the image right away without making any changes. Once I'm in Photoshop, I convert the layer to a smart object and then open it up in Camera Raw. This way I can go back and make any changes to the raw file if I need to. You could try out this technique and see how you like it! Thanks :D

4:48 the photo looks awesome this way from my point of view wow

I really struggel with color corrections and this video helped me so much! Thank you for sharing your knowlegde

This is really cool, thank you. And you are really good at teaching and keeping me interested so I'm going to check out your other videos because I love learning new stuff. Thank again for this.

Honeslty what a fantastic video! Thank you so much, I am trying to learn how to edit photos and this has been so incredible helpful. You rock!

You are such an amazing photographer. I love your photoshop tutorial, thanks for the inspiration.

YOU ARE AN INSANELY TALENTED LADY! YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION!

Thankyou for a helpful video and a good mood.

Thank you Jessica 😍 hugs from Nantes in France 😘

Awesome result 👍

Always love your videos Jessica. The not so funny jokes actually get me 😂😂😂

You are amazing!!! This seriously shows how skilled you are as a pro photographer 😆😘😘😘😘

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You’ve literally leveled me up. Thank you sm