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02 Aug

Business & Clients, Commercial Retouching

Your Portfolio Can Help You Start Getting Clients That You Want

January 9, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
photography portfolio, retouching clients, retouching portfolio
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There are no hard and fast rules for creating your résumé, each one is unique to the individual, highlighting their particular talents and skills, while showcasing previous work as it pertains to the job they want. In the same...

30 Jul

Business & Clients, Real World Practices

Optimize Your Photos For Facebook

January 14, 2019
Posted by Daniel Meadows
image quality, self-promotion, social media
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Over the last decade or so photographers and retouchers have recognized the increasing need to engage with social media. It allows a businessperson to interact directly with a potentially huge number of global users and potential customers, so it’s...

27 Jul

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe Flash is Officially Dead

January 14, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
adobe, portfolio, tech news
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Earlier this week, Adobe announced something that has been in the works since the iPhone first came out: the death of Flash. While most of the web has adapted, there are still online portfolios and other websites that run...

25 Jul

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

Retouching Skin with Dodging and Burning

January 14, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
beauty retouching, dodge & burn, skin retouching
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A vital technique for every retoucher to master, dodging and burning is a non-destructive method for retouching. This video tutorial demonstrates a successful workflow for utilizing dodging and burning on skin. We previously shared Zoë Noble’s tutorial on using the...

24 Jul

Hardware & Tools, Working With Colors

Why Your Monitor Can’t Display Some Colors

December 20, 2018
Posted by Daniel Meadows
color gamut, monitor, working with colors
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The modern PC monitor does an exceptional job of representing a photograph in light, built from hundreds of thousands, or millions of pixels, each capable of showing one of over 16 million colors. For those of you like myself who...

19 Jul

Business & Clients, Real World Practices

The Ethics of Retouching

January 15, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
beauty retouching, image editing, retouch
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If one were to open up the pages of a gossip magazine, or peruse the latest social media trend of a celebrity speaking out against their image being manipulated, you might develop a perception of retouchers as proverbial vampires...

19 Jul

Beauty Retouching, Real World Practices

The Art of Flawless Skin: Photography & Retouching

January 15, 2019
Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
beauty retouching, retouching techniques, working with colors
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"On the subject of beauty photography and retouching, one of the first aspects that comes to mind is flawless skin. The core of most beauty work is the art of conveying perfection. While few complexions are naturally perfect, it is...

18 Jul

Fundamentals, High-End Beauty & Fashion, Video Tutorial

Essential Retouching Tools for Face & Hair

April 24, 2020
Posted by Michael Woloszynowicz
beauty retouching, retouching tools, video tutorial
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In this video we'll be covering commonly used retouching tools for fixing blemishes on a subject's face and stray hairs. As always, our aim is not only to show you the basics of the tools but also best practices for...

17 Jul

Fundamentals, High-End Beauty & Fashion, Working With Colors

Color and Luminosity: Real-World Color Correction Techniques

January 15, 2019
Posted by Lulie Talmor
color correction, color theory, working with colors
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Introduction Every now and then, an image comes along with complex color schemes that can be daunting to retouch. For such cases, isolating luminosity and color components of the image and tackling each one individually can be helpful. First, we must...

16 Jul

Efficiency & Productivity, Real World Practices, Video Tutorial

Remove Dust, Lint and Debris Quickly

January 15, 2019
Posted by Daniel Meadows
efficiency & productivity, RA Panels, retouching tips
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One of the secrets of retouching at a high level is that you can cheat. There are countless dirty little tricks you should completely avoid as a beginner, and that once you've achieved a professional competence might just save your...

12 Jul

Business & Clients, Efficiency & Productivity, Real World Practices

Efficient Work Habits For Retouchers

January 16, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
dodge & burn, efficiency & productivity, retouching business
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As a photographer or a retoucher, there is one commodity that is important above all others: your time. Setting aside your skills, creativity, and style, it is your time that is the intangible product your clients invest in. Learning how...

11 Jul

Fundamentals, Real World Practices

Five Ways To Improve Your Retouching

September 1, 2018
Posted by Daniel Meadows
learning retouching, retouching education, retouching techniques
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Sometimes the best way to improve your craft, in any field, is to look a little way outside of it, to explore and examine closely related arts and to get a feel for the skills needed in other fields...

11 Jul

Beauty Retouching, Efficiency & Productivity, Software for Retouching

A Review of the Beauty Retouch Panel

January 16, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
beauty retouch, beauty retouch panel, RA Panels
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For thousands of retouchers around the world, the Beauty Retouch and Pixel Juggler Panels have brought efficiency to their workflow by optimizing the retouching techniques we often use. RA Panels are an extension that works with Adobe Photoshop CS6 and...

10 Jul

Efficiency & Productivity, Hardware & Tools, Software for Retouching

System Requirements for Retouching

July 1, 2018
Posted by Kendra Paige
efficiency & productivity, image editing, retouching
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Becoming a retoucher is one of those things that doesn’t involve many barriers to entry. Most computers will run the necessary software, making retouching accessible to many. For those that are just beginning their journey as a retoucher, or those...

06 Jul

Beauty Retouching, Fundamentals, Video Tutorial

Retouching Skin With The Clone Stamp Tool

May 17, 2018
Posted by Kendra Paige
beauty retouching, clone stamp, skin retouching
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In beauty, portrait and fashion photography skin retouching is arguably the most important and challenging part of the post-production process. Among the simple retouching tools in Adobe Photoshop, the Clone Stamp tool is our number one instrument when it comes...

05 Jul

Commercial Retouching, Working With Colors

Working With Colors: Examining The Louis Vuitton Look

January 16, 2019
Posted by Daniel Meadows
advertising photography, colors, working with colors
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Following on from my last article in which we examined the use of complimentary colors in a Mario Testino campaign, this week I want to bring to your attention a piece in which I examined the very particular style...

05 Jul

Business & Clients

Seven Ways to Increase Engagement on Instagram

January 19, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
instagram marketing, marketing, self-promotion
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Instagram has recently released a slew of updates which can affect the way you engage with your audience. New tools for business accounts, enhancements to Instagram Stories, as well as the ever-elusive shadowban, just to name a few. These...

04 Jul

Efficiency & Productivity, Real World Practices

Healthy Habits for Retouchers: Protecting Your Eyes & Vision

January 19, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
good retouching habits, healthy habits for retouchers, retouching ergonomics
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As retouchers, we often spend hours in front of our computer monitors, with our eyes trained on the finer details we’re enhancing. This is just the time spent while actively retouching, and does not take into the account the...

03 Jul

Fundamentals, High-End Beauty & Fashion, Real World Practices

Stop Doing These 5 Things For Better Retouching Results

January 19, 2019
Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
good retouching habits, learning retouching, retouching education
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As photographers and retouchers we all begin from zero and improve our skills by constantly learning and refining our workflow. Looking back at my own progress in retouching, I realize that simply correcting some of my habits and beliefs...

03 Jul

Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Software for Retouching

Customizing Your Workspace in Photoshop

January 19, 2019
Posted by Gerry Kingsley
efficiency & productivity, photoshop, Software Basics
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Software: Adobe Photoshop Skill level: Beginner Workspaces A workspace, is the entire working area of Photoshop. It’s what encompasses all the menus, tools and panels. Simply put, it’s pretty much everything you can see and click within Photoshop. So it’s high time you dropped the...