25
Jun
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...
22
Jun
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!...
21
Jun
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...
18
Jun
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...
16
Jun
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...
13
Jun
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...
13
Jun
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...
11
Jun
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...
09
Jun
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...
08
Jun
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...
06
Jun
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...
01
Jun
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...
29
Jan
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...
25
Jan
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...
06
Sep
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...
17
Aug
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,...
12
Jul
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...
08
Jul
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...
30
Jun
History Panel
The History Panel is a tool which creates a chronological top-down view of everything you do in your working session in Photoshop. To access the History Panel, choose Window...
07
Jun
In ‘How Much To Charge For Retouching Part One: Billing Hourly’ we took a look at hourly billing, the positives and negatives that it brings as a pricing model,...