Instructor: Mara Sachs, Adobe Certified Expert & Digital Prod. Artist

Duration: 43:23 minutes

Added October 2008

Adobe specialist Mara Sachs provides a handy overview of basic retouching techniques in Photoshop. Even if you are familiar with the clone stamp, healing brush, spot healing brush, patch tool, and other methods of reshaping and finessing an image, you may still find Mara's refresher course quite helpful. In addition to introducing each of these features and showing how to use them, this tutorial offers many practical hints to help you employ retouching tools most effectively and efficiently.

About Mara Sachs

Mara Sachs is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CS3 and a professional retoucher and digital production artist. She began her career in 1984 as a typesetter at Ziff Davis in New York City. A few years later she began learning the basics of digital production as manager of the new Macintosh department in a large Philadelphia prepress company.

Since 1990 she has been running her own business, providing photo retouching and digital production services, as well as training, to advertising agencies, retouching firms, designers, photographers and businesses both large and small. Mara is an avid mediator and brings her joyful energy, clarity and good humor to her tutorials and classes. She lives in New York City and offers classes, individual training and consulting support in both Photoshop and InDesign. She can be reached at photoshoptraining@me.com