16
Apr
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...
12
Apr
Retouching Academy on Facebook.
Listen to Julia and Lulie chat about retouching as a craft, retouching career and growing as a creative professional.
Lulie's Website & Social...
11
Apr
I recently published my interview with one of my most favorite digital artists Alexia Sinclair on Fstoppers. My full interview, however, was much longer and I picked Alexia's brain about...
07
Apr
This is becoming a good tradition, and we hope that our RA Mentorship Program can last longer, despite the fact that it is far from perfect at this point....
13
Mar
I recently published an article on Fstoppers about one of the Retouching Academy community group members Juan Sánchez Castillo from Spain and his beautiful series "Making It Up". In that article...
02
Mar
This time we've actually got together and looked through the submitted images. We've talked about what we thought was done well, as well as what could have been done...
05
Feb
UPDATE: The finalists and the Winner are announced on Fstoppers:
The Awesome Robocop Retouching Contest Winners
Congratulations, Jeff Whitlock!
My Fstoppers colleague, NYC based Commercial Photographer Douglas Sonders, is running a fun...
04
Feb
We are super excited to announce that the first round of the Mentorship Program in our Retouching Academy Community group is finished and our winner Mentees are announced along...
03
Feb
In this video we'll be discussing some of the most important layer Blending modes for retouchers to understand, as well as present practical examples of when they are used.
We've...
18
Jan
In this post our Guest Artist Michael Herb, Commercial, Editorial and Conceptual Photographer from Las Vegas, NV talks about the importance of self-promotion for artists and shares his own methods....
16
Jan
In this post our Guest Artist Shayne Gray from Toronto, Canada will walk us through the creation process of his "Red Dress Twirl" image.
I am really enjoying reading through...
15
Jan
In this post our Guest Artist photographer & master photoshopper (who is a full-time consultant and a team leader at an e-commerce company by day) Johan Normén from Alingsås, Sweden will show us...
10
Jan
We recently had a lengthy discussion in our Retouching Academy Community group regarding the importance and definition of image resolution. Even though it is pretty straight forward there is...
05
Jan
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...
12
Dec
Please read How to Set Preferences & Memory Usage for Peak Performance before you continue reading this article.
History & Caches
Simply put, keep History States and Cache Levels at their default settings,...
25
Nov
In this tutorial we will cover what Clipping Masks are and how to create them in Photoshop. We will also touch on some retouching scenarios when they can be...
18
Nov
In this video we will talk about the Pen Tool and how you can make and adjust precise and complex selections using this tool.
The Pen Tool is one of...
30
Oct
COLOR SPACES
Color Management is the process of coordinating colors from nature to camera, then to monitor, then to print, so that the color that will be produced in your final...
30
Oct
These are the things every visual artist must know and understand.
LIGHT & COLOR
If you want to learn to manage color, it helps to first understand just what it is:
Color...
28
Oct
This is a great video from Derek Halpern of Social Triggers talking about how to prevent new clients from haggling your rates. He also offers a great script of...