In addition images from professional photographers are shown and discussed.
Students are encouraged to read 8 Portrait Tips Everyone Should Know.
Students are shown various Photoshop techniques to edit portrait photos. Tools covered include:

Evaluation:
Portrait Photography
(Always leave original as an untouched layer)
Hand in 2 photos. One untouched in Photoshop, One modified to IMPROVE the photo or model. Photos must be of two different people!
4 points -- Raw composition of the shots (Focus, Detail, Lighting, Crop, Color saturation, etc.)
4 points -- Natural Corrections/improvements on one photo. (Don't do too much!) (And don't do too little either!)
2 points -- Followed directions (one corrected, one not, untouched layer in corrected one, titled: "your name untouch.jpg" and "your name mod.psd")
10 points total