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17 May

Business & Clients, Commercial Retouching, Real World Practices

14 Tips on How to Increase Your Chances of Getting Hired Again

• September 17, 2020
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• creative team, freelance retoucher
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As a freelance artist, one of your primary goals is securing return clientele. For retouchers, makeup artists, hairstylists, wardrobe stylists, digital techs, photography assistants, models, and others, one of...

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16 May

Real World Practices, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

How to Color Calibrate All of Your Devices for Accurate Color

• January 13, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• color calibration, color management
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Color calibration is one of those topics that can be intimidating to beginner retouchers and photographers alike. This fantastic tutorial by our friends at Fstoppers makes calibration easy to...

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15 May

Creative Retouching, Fundamentals, Stay Inspired

How Understanding Composition Can Make You A Better Retoucher

• December 27, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• art history, photography composition, retouching fundamentals
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Retouchers can learn a lot from traditional art forms like painting, as many of the fundamental concepts are quite similar. While retouchers tend to lend their focus in the...

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10 May

Efficiency & Productivity, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

Improve Your Workflow With These Hidden Gems in Photoshop

• January 13, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• photoshop tools, photoshop tricks, photoshop tutorial
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Photoshop is one of those astounding applications where learning never ends. Despite this, it’s possible to get complacent when it comes to seeking out new methods for improving your...

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07 May

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching, Stay Inspired

Adobe Slashes Creative Cloud Subscription Fee for Students

• May 6, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• adobe blog news, adobe education, Creative Cloud
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Last January Adobe announced that it would provide Spark Education — a set of storytelling apps — free of charge for K-12 (kindergarten to 12th grade, primary and secondary education)...

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03 May

Business & Clients, Efficiency & Productivity

Streamline Your Instagram Marketing With Later

• January 13, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• business of retouching, marketing, retouching business
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Gone are the days of traditional marketing and a well-designed website being the go-to strategy for gaining new clients. Social media has made itself king, with Instagram currently reigning...

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01 May

Beauty Retouching, Industry & Community News, Stay Inspired

Announcing the RA Beauty Retouching Contest

• September 18, 2026
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• beauty retouching, retouching contest
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We hope that you’ve been inspired by our @retouchingacademy Instagram feed while learning and growing as a retouching artist and member of our Facebook RA Community. Now is your chance...

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30 Apr

Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Software for Retouching

How to Use Styles and Presets in Your Capture One Workflow

• January 22, 2025
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• capture one 11, retouching workflow, styles and presets
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Capture One Pro version 10.1 brought us an improved Styles workflow, which has now been enhanced in version 11.1 with the addition of Style Packs. Styles and Presets are...

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26 Apr

Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

How to Lighten or Darken Selective Colors in Photoshop

• January 13, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• photoshop, photoshop tools, working with colors
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There are endless techniques for color grading your images, but one aspect that can be tricky is manipulating the tonal range of those colors. If you prefer performing your...

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24 Apr

Efficiency & Productivity, Hardware & Tools

Wacom Releases the New Cintiq Pro 24 and 32

• April 23, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• cintiq, graphics tablet, Wacom
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Like a contractor’s hammer, a Wacom pen tablet is a mandatory piece of hardware for any creative looking to become a retoucher. The pen-to-paper-like experience allows the creative to...

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22 Apr

Business & Clients, Real World Practices

5 Ways To Alienate Clients & Lose Potential Jobs

• October 21, 2020
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• clients, retouching business
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There are so many similarities in business practices among different creative fields, that I constantly pick up great advice from brilliant people of completely different professions than my own. I...

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19 Apr

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Phase One Releases Capture One 11.1

• September 18, 2026
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• capture one, phase one
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Phase One announced a significant update today to its popular RAW conversion and image editing software, Capture One. This new release promises to improve the user experience with a...

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15 Apr

Business & Clients, Commercial Retouching

When Are You Good Enough to Become a Retouching Freelancer?

• December 8, 2020
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• business of retouching, freelance, retouching business, retouching education
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Waking up all hazy, you raise your head up, your eyes slowly focusing back in, you come to and suddenly realize, you fell asleep at your day job, again. Most...

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12 Apr

Real World Practices, Software for Retouching, Working With Colors

Adobe Profiles vs Capture One Color Curves

• January 3, 2019
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• adobe camera raw, adobe lightroom, capture one
• 12 comments

Adobe has recently released a substantial update to Camera RAW and Lightroom in the form of “Profiles.” These profiles determine how the software renders color during initial RAW conversion....

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10 Apr

Fundamentals, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

How to Use History Snapshots in Photoshop While Retouching

• January 13, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• adobe photoshop, History Panel, history snapshot
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Post-production is a thoughtful and meticulous process, with a variety of applied techniques and adjustments to color, texture, and exposure. While working on an image, it is common to...

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05 Apr

Business & Clients, Real World Practices, Successful Retouching Business

How to Protect Your Work as a Photographer or Digital Artist

• September 18, 2020
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• image copyright, photography copyright
• 6 comments

When it comes to protecting your work and your brand, there are many things to consider, and the top of that list is copyright. With images on display on websites, digital magazines, social media, online contests, etc, the opportunities for someone to misuse your work are plentiful.

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04 Apr

Efficiency & Productivity, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe Adds Profiles to Lightroom and ACR

• January 3, 2019
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• adobe, lightroom profiles, retouching
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Today, Lightroom and Camera RAW users can rejoice! Adobe has just released “Profiles” for Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, and Adobe Camera Raw. Within ACR and Lightroom, a profile is used...

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03 Apr

Beauty Retouching, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

New Release: Beauty Retouch v3.2 & Pixel Juggler 2.2 for CS6 to CC2018

• September 18, 2026
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• new release, RA Panels, software update
• 14 comments

We are happy to announce the release of the newest versions of the Beauty Retouch and Pixel Juggler Panels, which now include their own installers! In this update, we have...

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29 Mar

Industry & Community News, Working With Colors

How Deep Learning May Change How We Color Grade

• January 3, 2019
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• color grading, deep learning, working with colors
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Have you ever wanted to recreate a look or color palette from a favorite photo? Or have you ever wondered what it was like to turn a day scene...

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28 Mar

Fundamentals, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

How to Read a Histogram in Camera and After

• January 13, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• adobe photoshop, histogram, photoshop tools
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The histogram is a tool that is present in photo editing applications and on the back of cameras, but are you comfortable with reading one? Learning how to read...

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