Brock McFadzean, Author at Retouching Academy

Retouching Academy Interview: Nick Duell, Commercial Advertising Retoucher

Nick Duell (www.nicholasduell.com) is a commercial advertising photo retoucher with over 10 years experience based out of Melbourne, Australia. It is always interesting and important to know what successful creative professionals think, believe and what they have been through to get to...

How to Use Apply Image Function to Expand Dynamic Range While Retaining Detail In Shadows And Highlights

January 20, 2019
Posted by Brock McFadzean
photoshop basics, retouching, retouching education
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A typical issue that photographers face when capturing digital images is limited dynamic range of DSLR cameras. We always have to choose between which detail we would like to keep, and which detail will unfortunately be lost. If you choose...

Retouching Guidelines & Considerations

January 20, 2019
Posted by Brock McFadzean
beauty retouching, quality retouching, retouching guidelines
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The general term “Retouching” can be categorized under the following subject-specific areas of Portrait, Editorial, Commercial, Beauty and Creative Retouching. Each of these areas possesses its own assembly of considerations around what “retouching” is when editing the image in question....