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Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

5 Mistakes to Look Out For When Retouching Skin

Beautiful, believable skin is one of the tell tale signs of a good retoucher. It takes time and practice to train your eye and your hands. Learning when to stop is as critical as learning all the techniques available...

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Business & Clients, High-End Beauty & Fashion

Industry Insider: Portfolio Panel Discussion with Pratik Naik

In the Industry Insider section of issue 4 of TOUCHED Magazine "YOUR PORTFOLIO" we asked a few brilliant artists Webb Bland, Pratik Naik, Daniel Meadows, Simon Webb, Todd Riddiford and Milton Menezes to share their perspectives on creating portfolios with...

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Industry & Community News, Retouching Educational Events

RA Community News: The Photography Show Birmingham, UK

This year's Photography Show will take place in NEC Birmingham, UK from the 19th through the 22nd of March 2016. All photography and retouching enthusiasts and professionals are welcome to attend. You can book your tickets at the Photography Show website. Note that professional photographers...

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Creative Retouching, Interviews & Making Of Stories

A Guide to Creative Toy Photography and Focus Stacking by Felix Hernandez Rodriguez

Felix Hernandez Rodriguez is a conceptual and commercial photographer and graphic designer from Cancun, Mexico. Today he shares his Guide to Toy Photography which is designed to help all enthusiasts in this genre create realistic images by using a few...

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Fundamentals, Video Tutorial

The Power of The Curves Adjustment Layer – Part 2: Manipulating Color

In part 2 of our introduction to the Curves Adjustment Layer we will take a look at how to use this tool to tone and color correct an image. In particular, the video demonstrates how to use Curves to: Color correct an image; Use Color...

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Fundamentals, Hardware & Tools

Camera Sensors, Megapixels and How They Affect Post-Production Results

LESSON 3:BEFORE THE CAPTURE Camera Sensors, Megapixels and How They Affect Post-Production Results What Is ISO Camera Settings For Better Source Images Light & Shadow Basics <<< RETURN TO THE COURSE PAGE We are excited to share a guest article from Ontario-based...

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Creative Retouching, Industry & Community News

Imagine: Created Reality – Exhibition Opening and Book Release by Erik Johansson

Well known Swedish Stage photographer Erik Johansson opens his debut exhibition "Imagine: Created Reality" at Stockholm’s Fotografiska Museum of Photography on 26th of February. Imagine: Created Reality presents 25 works from 2008 until now, including previously unseen new work,...

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Commercial Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

How to Apply Textures to Create Interest in your Images

At times when you’re done retouching an image, it still feels incomplete, like something is missing to really make it come together. Sometimes the answer isn’t in further skin and hair retouching, but in your overall creative choices. Like most techniques in retouching,...

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Fundamentals, Video Tutorial

The Power of The Curves Adjustment Layer – Part 1: Tonal Range & Contrast

In this video, we are going to take an introductory look at the Curves Adjustment Layer, one of Photoshop’s most powerful and flexible tools. In particular, the video demonstrates the strengths of the Curves tool: How to use it to precisely extend the...

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Hardware & Tools, Real World Practices

So Do You Really Need A Wacom Tablet For Retouching?

One of the frequent questions asked by beginner retouchers, and both photographers and retouchers looking to improve their workflow is 'do I need a graphics tablet for retouching?' First let's look at the mouse. The computer mouse was invented over...

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Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

7 Key Areas for Beauty Photography Retouching

Beauty Photography is an exquisite genre of photography, but also one of the more difficult and tedious for photographers and retouchers. Photography, lighting, team and retouching have to be at their best to really make the image shine. There is...

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Beauty Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

10 Things You Can Learn From Makeup Artists

As a retouching artist you have probably already understood that we don't work in a vacuum. We retouchers are always a part of a team that strives toward a common goal: the creation of a beautiful image. And knowing...

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Beauty Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

Dealing With Peach Fuzz in Beauty Retouching

What do we call "peach fuzz"? Otherwise known as vellus hair, those are the fine, light-pigmented hairs on the face, neck and other parts of the body. Usually so fine, that they can be noticed only in extreme close-ups or...

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Beauty Retouching, Real World Practices, Software for Retouching

Temporary Healing Brush Fix in Photoshop CC2015

This post is long overdue, but better late than never. I recently had the honor to spend a couple of hours speaking with the Adobe Photoshop Engineers and Product Quality team and share my retouching workflow steps with them. As...

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Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

50 Shapes of Brows: How To Treat Eyebrows in Post-Production

It is common knowledge in the beauty and fashion photography world that eyebrow shape can "make or break" the face. And while in most cases we, as retouchers, are lucky to have make-up artists style and shape the models'...

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Creative Retouching, Stay Inspired

Photo Series Captures the Imagination of Children to Create a Calendar for Charity

https://vimeo.com/144526468 As a commercial photographer I am constantly creating content for clients. As much as I love my jobs, I inevitably reach a point where I find myself with a hankering for my own personal creative outlet. This eventually leads me...

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Efficiency & Productivity, Real World Practices

Good Retouching Habits: The Importance Of Zooming Out While You Work

This article will explain the importance of evaluating your image at different "zoom levels" while you work. Viewing distance How an image is perceived is largely dependent on the viewing distance and the physical size of the image canvas. It is easy...

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Beauty Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion

Adding Shine To The Hair Using Custom Photoshop Brush and Luminosity Masking

One of the major components in our interpretation of healthy-looking hair is its shine. Apart from giving the hair a shiny look, highlights create the much-sought-after volume. As with almost every task, Photoshop gives us numerous ways of tackling...

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