As photographers, we have the ability to capture the world through our lens, so we’re tasked with the social and professional responsibility to properly represent people of color. 

As early as I could remember in my career, I wanted to make sure that people who looked like me were going to be properly represented. I remember a lot of my friends complaining that there weren’t any photographers on our college campus that were able to capture the way they looked. Despite having competent work, they struggled with photographing and editing people of darker complexion, for example changing their skin tones or in a lot of the cases, using presets that don’t consider the nuances in different complexions.

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Blemishes are distracting and removing them is the first step in any retouch as part of making your portrait subject look their absolute best and creating an image that stands out. In this course, we take an in-depth look at the different strengths and weaknesses of the four tools used for blemish removal; the patch tool, the healing brush tool, the spot healing brush tool, and the clone stamp.