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18 Apr
Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Real World Practices, Video Tutorial

Photoshop Layer Management: How You Order Your PSD Layers Matters

When working in Photoshop, your PSD Layer management approach - organizing your layers efficiently - is crucial to maintaining flexibility and control over your retouching workflow. Getting into the habit of properly structuring your PSD files early in your retouching...

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11 Apr
Real World Practices, Stay Inspired, Working With Colors

Psychology of Color for Creative Professionals: Money’s Hidden Palette

This article on Psychology of Color for Creative Professionals is written by our guest author, top-pro Makeup Artist and educator Irina Rudova, Los Angeles, CA and edited by Julia Kuzmenko McKim. Read more about Irina below.  Markets are currently experiencing...

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09 Apr
Efficiency & Productivity, Industry & Community News, Real World Practices, Stay Inspired

Generative AI for Freelancer: Will You Be a Disruptor or Disrupted?

As I advance in the Applied Generative AI course by MIT, I am completely and irrevocably convinced that the freelance business in the content creation field is experiencing a monumental transformation. The type that will permanently alter its landscape. I won't...

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13 Mar
Creative Retouching, Efficiency & Productivity, Industry & Community News, Stay Inspired

Generative AI for Freelancers

The freelance world is undergoing a seismic shift propelled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Generative AI. In my latest blog post, you will find how I believe this transformative technology is reshaping the industry and can help YOU to recession-proof your freelance...

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27 Feb
Uncategorized

Our Powerful Beauty Retouch Bundle is On Sale This Week

We are running a flash sale this week to bring our BEAUTY RETOUCH BUNDLE into the spotlight! In this powerful 2-course bundle @juliakuzmenko and @michaelwoloszynowicz share their refined beauty retouching tools, techniques, and methods that they use in personal and commercial photography...

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22 May
Beauty Retouching, Real World Practices, Stay Inspired

New Practice Beauty Images

As an ever-evolving and continually developing creative professional, you understand the significance of refining your skills and expanding your artistic vision through hands-on practice. Photographers who have access to skilled creative teams and professional models often find themselves in a...

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25 Apr
Industry & Community News, Real World Practices, Stay Inspired

Guide to the Best Artist Grants and Opportunities for 2023

While retouching artists aren't usually really independent in their work and art (I guess, apart from AI creations now accessible to all, but that's a separate topic altogether), we often form partnerships based on commercial and/or artistic interests with...

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29 Mar
Beauty Retouching, Real World Practices

New Practice Image in the Skin Retouching Course

We've got some exciting news for those of you who are interested in continuous growth and professional development! We've added a new additional image file (.PSD) for the Oily Skin lesson in the Skin Retouching video course for you to...

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15 Mar
Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, Real World Practices, Working With Colors

How Good are Your Color Matching Skills?

As a retouching professional in the beauty industry, you have to hone certain skills to be able to make necessary color adjustments to achieve target (reference) colors provided by the client. These skills include: the ability to discern subtle differences...

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04 May
Beauty Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion, Video Tutorial

The Blot Button on the MUA Retouch Panel

The Blot button on the MUA Retouch panel allows you to “mattify” oily skin patches quickly and easily – just like blotting sheets in your makeup kit do. You can easily adjust the strength of the effect or even its...

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27 Oct
Efficiency & Productivity, Hardware & Tools, Real World Practices, Video Tutorial

Retouching Eyes with the Eye Drops Button on the MUA Retouch Panel

The Eye Drops button on our MUA Retouch panel is like virtual Visine, only better. Use it to quickly clean up the whites of the eyes, add light and vitality to the eyes, as well as make adjustments to...

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07 Jul
Fundamentals, Software for Retouching

How to Install Brush Presets in Photoshop

A Photoshop Brush is a brush tip with defined characteristics, such as size, shape, and hardness (.ABR files). Brushes can be found in Window > Brush panel in Photoshop. Before the CC2020 version of Photoshop, you could also separately save Brush Presets – they were the same brush tips,...

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11 Mar
Beauty Retouching, Real World Practices, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

Luminosity Masking with the Beauty Retouch Panel

Check out our new video for the Beauty Retouch panel users on how to use the Luminosity Masking buttons.  Our Luminosity Masking scripts create quick selections based on the luminosity values of your image, so you can turn them...

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02 Sep
Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

New Skin Retouching Course on Our New Streaming Platform

The Skin Retouching course is available on our new streaming platform located at learn.retouchingacademy.com, and now you can conveniently continue learning even when you are away from your desk and watch the lessons on your mobile devices via this mobile app.

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