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Portrait Revolution: Inspiration, Tips and Techniques for Creating Portraits from the Artists of Julia Kay’s Portrait Party

Julia Kay’s Portrait Party is an international collaborative project in which artists all over the world make portraits of each other and share them online. After years of exchanging portraits, tips and techniques within the group, in Portrait Revolution these artists are now sharing their art, their words, and their inspiration with everyone who is interested in or would like to get started with portraiture. Here you can find information on using different media, how to handle difficult portrait issues, and more.Portrait Revolution showcases 450 portraits by 200 artists, in a wide variety of media from oil painting to iPad art, watercolour to ballpoint, linocut to mosaic. There is a range of styles from realistic to abstract and interpretations by multiple artists of the same subject.

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DIGITAL PHOTO RETOUCHING: Beauty, fashion & portrait photography: Inspiration, Tips & Video Workshop by Julia Kuzmenko (MADARTISTPUBLISHING.COM MASTER SERIES COLLECTION)

Check out the digital version of this book at http://retouchingebooks.com/ebooks-mad-artist-book.html to gain access to additional materials (custom Beauty Brushes & Actions) + 2 extra pages and 30 minutes of video tutorials on how to use them. All links in the digital book are clickable, the navigation inside the book is very simple and convenient. You will also receive a 25% off discount code for the print version upon your digital book purchase. We only made the print book available as an additional option for those few who still prefer holding printed books in their hands. There are scannable QR codes in the print copy, which will take you to the video tutorials on your internet enabled device. And there are simply clickable Video icons, which will take you to the private Youtube videos on your computer (or tablet). We’ve put together a beautiful book for you to get inspired and learn professional Beauty, Fashion & Portrait retouching tricks and techniques from a successful internationally published photographer, retoucher and educator Julia Kuzmenko McKim. The cover photo won second place in the global Wacom & AfterCapture Digital Imaging Contest 2012 in the Portrait category, and you can follow its retouching process with Julia in a 5-page illustrated text and 40-minute narrated video workshop. It’s an inspirational book full of beautiful images, real-world retouching and photography tips, articles and a few illustrated text and video tutorials (over 60 min in print copy and over 90 min in digital) for amateur and professional photographers who edit their work in Adobe Photoshop. This book is created with intermediate and advanced Photoshop users in mind. HIGHLIGHTS: Pages 24-28: Cover Image Illustrated Text Workshop Pages 36-37: Retouching Face + Video (13 min) Page 44: Cover Image Video Retouching Workshop (42min) Pages 50-51: Photographing & Retouching Hair + Video (10 min) Tons of Images & Real World Photography & Retouching Tips Articles on shooting on location, in studio, working with models Custom Beauty Brushes & Actions sets (see Digital Goodie Bag subfolder) (only in digital book) Pages 58-59: Working with the custom Brushes & Actions mentioned above + Video tutorial (30 min) (only in digital book) The video tutorials in this book are private Youtube videos exclusively accessible to the readers of this book