Real World Practices Archives

25 Jun

Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

Natural Trends in Fashion Retouching

Retouching, as with photography and fashion itself, has always been a slave to trends, and the driving force behind what we as industry professionals produce for our clients has always been what the consumer wants to see. These are...

22 Jun

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Find Out How That Photo Was Edited With Pixel Peeper

January 19, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
adobe lightroom, image editing, retouching
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Have you ever admired a photograph and wondered just how they achieved that look in post? If you have, and the photographer used Adobe Lightroom, then you’re in luck! Web developer, Piotr Chmolowski, has launched a website that lifts...

21 Jun

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe’s Upward Momentum and What Is Next

Adobe is having a record week: beating profit estimates, launching Adobe Advertising Cloud TV, and utilizing Adobe Sensei’s sophisticated A.I. machine learning. It has been a busy week, and that can only be good news for us. On Tuesday, June...

18 Jun

Business & Clients, Efficiency & Productivity, High-End Beauty & Fashion

Kavyar Takes the Fuss out of Magazine Submissions

January 19, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
beauty photography, editorial photography, magazine submissions
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For many fashion and beauty photographers, having their work showcased in independent magazines is a way to gain exposure. This process was rarely ever an efficient one, however, as each publication is vastly different. Traditionally, the method for doing...

16 Jun

Fundamentals, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

The Hidden Treasures of Creativity in Adobe Photoshop

Every experienced digital artist and retoucher knows how important your choice of brushes is for each specific purpose. With that in mind, on June 15, 2017, Adobe announced the release of a new set of digital brushes created from 360 scans of...

13 Jun

Hardware & Tools

Samsung Rethinks the Television With Artists in Mind

June 13, 2017
Posted by Kendra Paige
artwork display, digital gallery, samsung
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At CES 2017, Samsung teased a new addition to their Lifestyle and Serif TV lines of televisions, with The Frame TV. The Frame is designed to act more as a work of art rather than an unsightly black wall...

13 Jun

Creative Retouching, Real World Practices, Stay Inspired

History In Color

In the photo retouching world there has always been a niche for the historian, or simply those fascinated by our shared past. I myself started out as a restorer and colorist so it's an area that holds special interest...

11 Jun

Commercial Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

Unretouched and Beautiful

January 19, 2019
Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
advertising photography, commercial retouching
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This summer, a few swimwear brands are making their marketing campaigns louder by refusing to retouch their images. The 21-year-old founder of Rheya Swim, Chloe Madison told Seventeen that she wasn't happy with the images of her body "enhanced to someone else’s idealistic version...

09 Jun

Commercial Retouching, Real World Practices

When Retouching Markups Escape!

December 17, 2018
Posted by Gandalf The Retoucher
commercial, fail, markups
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A few months back, we discussed the importance of markups in the retouching industry. One thing we certainly didn't explain was that it's very, very important not to let your markups escape into the wild! RELATED: From Brief to Sign-Off,...

09 Jun

Commercial Retouching, Retouching Job Alert

#JOBALERT: Senior Retoucher for Rankin

Location: London, United Kingdom Posted: Jun 9, 2017 Source: Rankin Photography Ltd Employment type: Full-time Job function: Advertising, Art/Creative Job description: SENIOR RETOUCHER We’re looking for an exceptionally talented Retoucher to join the in house team. You will have a minimum of 5 years professional retouching behind you with...

08 Jun

Commercial Retouching, Retouching Job Alert

#JOBALERT: Retouching Artist for Verizon

Location: New York, NY Posted: Jun 7, 2017 Source: Coroflot Job Description: RETOUCHING ARTIST At 140 West, you will be part of the energy that’s evolving the Verizon brand to become a leading technology player. The new Tribeca space will bring together some of...

08 Jun

High-End Beauty & Fashion, Video Tutorial

For Better Retouching Think Like an Art Director

December 17, 2018
Posted by Daniel Meadows
commercial retouching, good retouching habits, retouching
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As photographers and retouchers, we are used to scanning our images in search of the smallest blemishes and flyaway hairs to remove. However, there's a bigger picture to look at before you even get to that level of details. Try...

06 Jun

Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News

Apple Vies For The Affection Of Power Users with iMac Pro

December 17, 2018
Posted by Kendra Paige
apple, imac
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With the Mac Pro released in 2013 with few updates to follow, creative and professional Mac users were beginning to bite their nails with worry that Apple had abandoned them. At a shareholder meeting at Cupertino in February, Apple...

01 Jun

Beauty Retouching, Efficiency & Productivity, Video Tutorial

How to Color Grade Using Luminosity Masks

December 17, 2018
Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
beauty retouching, color grading, lumino, luminosity masking
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I have been using Luminosity Masks in my retouching for many years now and I absolutely love the flexibility they offer when making selections for exposure adjustments and color grading in Photoshop. I love how Zoë Noble explained her color grading...

29 Jan

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

Adobe Creative Cloud Subscriptions – The Devil is in the Details

January 25, 2019
Posted by Gerry Kingsley
adobe, Creative Cloud, News
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We all love our Adobe products, but recently I had the misfortune of being caught by the Adobe Creative Cloud cancellation ‟penalty.” Turns out, when you sign up for any annual Adobe CC subscription that’s paid monthly, you’re actually committing...

25 Jan

Beauty Retouching, Efficiency & Productivity, Real World Practices

Don’t Let Facebook Image Compression Ruin Your Images

December 17, 2018
Posted by Julia McKim
retouching, software
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So, you just spent hours retouching your perfect shot. Naturally, you want to share it with the world, so you upload it to your Facebook page, only to find your hard work trashed and frankly looking like sh!#t. Well, rumor has...

06 Sep

Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Software for Retouching

Working With Selections: The New Select and Mask Feature

December 17, 2018
Posted by Gerry Kingsley
fundamentals, photoshop basics, selections
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Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 recently released their 5.0 update which brought us a revamp of the already useful tool formerly known as Refine Edge. Let’s look at what’s new and how we can take advantage of this new update...

17 Aug

Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Software for Retouching

Selection Tools Overview

December 15, 2018
Posted by Gerry Kingsley
photoshop tools, selections
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One of the most powerful tools for retouchers in Adobe Photoshop is the ability to select and modify pixels, referred to as making selections. Located on the tool bar, Selection tools are used to isolate one or several parts...

12 Jul

Beauty Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

Approaching a Beauty Shoot Like an Art Master

August 3, 2020
Posted by Julia McKim
beauty retouching, making of, retouching
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Today our guest writer, Art Director & Retoucher Alexey Adamitsky shares his methodical approach to a beauty photoshoot from an artistic perspective and outlines his thought process as well as workflow steps from the start of the shoot to the...

08 Jul

Creative Retouching

History of Retouching: Photographers and Retouchers Synergy in the Analog Photography Era

December 4, 2018
Posted by Siyana Yanarova
arts history, composite, history of retouching
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It is a widely spread misconception that retouching as an art was born with the invention of Photoshop. Yes, digital retouching is relatively new, but analog post-processing was created hand in hand with photography in the beginning of 19th...