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NEW! Professional Beauty Retouching Course
In this video course, we cover what you need to know to enter the world of professional retouching, be that as a freelancer serving commercial clients or as part of an in-house team.
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Dodging and Burning with Capture One Pro 20
While it used to be the case that a full portrait or beauty retouch was the exclusive domain of raster-based photo editors such as Adobe Photoshop or Affinity Photo, the release of Capture One 20 (13.1) has now made it possible entirely at the raw level…
Beauty Retouching Challenge #6
Another weekly Beauty Retouching Challenge has begun! Enter the RA Beauty Retouching Challenge #6 and download the new Challenge Image…
Changes to The Supported Photoshop Versions for RA Panels
We care deeply about the quality of our products and choose not to jeopardize our users’ experience by offering panels that might not perform as they should due to outdated Adobe software. As a result, we will no longer offer RA Panels for Photoshop CS6 for purchase…
Beauty Retouching Challenge #4, New Round!
Enter the RA Beauty Retouching Challenge #4 and download the new Challenge Image…
New Round! Beauty Retouching Challenge #3
Challenge #2 Results Overview
New Round! Beauty Retouching Challenge #2
Beauty Retouching Challenge #1: Ready, Set, Go!
Becoming a Professional Beauty Retoucher
The world of professional beauty retouching is very exciting, collaborative and diverse. You never stop learning and growing as a creative professional because every job is a set of new challenges that keep your problem-solving and retouching skills sharp and ever-evolving.
Read on if you are interested in becoming a Professional Commercial Beauty Retoucher.
Hands On With Photoshop for iPad for Retouching
How to Retain Skin Texture While Fixing Imperfections With Dodging and Burning
Enhance Details Using New Features in Photoshop and Lightroom
How to Dodge and Burn Darker Skin Tones
Why You Should Not Give A Magazine Exclusive Rights To Your Images For Free
Black and White Conversions in Relation to Dodging and Burning
How To Use Luma Masks for Precise Adjustments in Capture One Pro 12
#JOBALERT: Experienced Beauty & Product Retouchers for Avenue Retouching Agency
Avenue is a retouching agency catering to cosmetics brands and commercial photographers in the beauty industry, currently hand-picking a small selection of highly skilled freelance beauty retouchers:
We’re looking for an exceptionally talented retoucher to join our Freelance Talent Pool. You should have a minimum of 2 years professional retouching behind you with significant experience across commercial and editorial beauty. You must be used to a fast-paced, high-volume workflow and willing to go the extra mile when deadlines demand.
How To Retouch Eyelashes and Eyebrows for Beauty Photographs
Roundup of Apple WWDC Announcements for Photographers and Retouchers
This year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was an eventful one for Apple, announcing many exciting new software features and products. Notably, the pro users (or power users) got the recognition they wanted, with a refresh of the Mac Pro, as well as Apple finally releasing a new display. We’ll discuss some of these in more detail, as well as one particular new feature that may give you the drawing tablet you’ve always wanted.
Learn Adobe Lightroom in Under 30 Minutes
Adobe Lightroom has been an industry heavyweight for many photographers and retouchers. With each update bringing new features and performance improvements, Lightroom is a fully-loaded RAW Converter, image-editor, and a powerful file management system.While some photographers and retouchers may prefer to live entirely within Photoshop’s interface, there are many benefits to learning the ins and outs of this software as a complement to Photoshop, especially if you are dealing with large volumes of images.
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WORK SMART, NOT HARD
RA Panels are Photoshop extensions designed to help speed up your Beauty, Fashion & Portrait retouching workflow by performing the tedious and repetitive parts of your routine, and increase the quality of the finished product.
In today’s fast-paced digital world, we independent artists must offer superior, swift and consistent service to be ahead of our competition. Whether you are a freelance retoucher or a professional photographer, this smart panel will simplify and speed up your workflow by performing the tedious and repetitive parts of your routine.
Utilizing extremely helpful scripts, as well as the ability to add your own custom User Actions, this extension panel will help you achieve repeatable top-quality results, impress your clients, and save you hours of work in the process.