02
Aug
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...
30
Jul
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...
27
Jul
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,...
25
Jul
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...
24
Jul
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...
19
Jul
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,...
19
Jul
"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...
18
Jul
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...
17
Jul
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...
16
Jul
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...
12
Jul
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...
11
Jul
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...
11
Jul
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...
10
Jul
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...
06
Jul
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...
05
Jul
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...
04
Jul
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...
03
Jul
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...
03
Jul
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...
29
Jun
While voice devices such as the Amazon Echo may not be present in every home just yet, they are showing an upward trend. Adobe recently released a report focused...