23
Jul
In this final part of the series, I will describe some of the tools I use to generate and develop story ideas to make them compatible with the photographic...
16
Jul
Shooting food is different than portrait, architectural, or landscape photography. When shooting food, there is one end goal of your image. YOU WANT YOUR VIEWER TO BE HUNGRY! If...
08
Jul
This is the second part of the article by our guest Australian Commercial Digital Retoucher Peter Worthington.
Part I: The Importance of Layer Organization in Commercial Retouching – Part I.
Enjoy!
Previously, I mentioned how...
02
Jul
In this tutorial our guest Commercial Digital Retoucher Peter Worthington will walk us through his workflow and share the most effective ways of handling layers in your master files...
01
Jul
Nick Duell (www.nicholasduell.com) is a commercial advertising photo retoucher with over 10 years experience based out of Melbourne, Australia. It is always interesting and important to know what successful creative professionals think,...
30
May
This is the second part of the series of John's articles on Storytelling in Concept Photography. You can find Part 1 and Part 3 of the series here:
Storytelling In Concept Photography. Part...
13
May
Everything you do in any field of photography and retouching starts with an idea, but to achieve your vision, you must know how to shape, control, and modify the...
12
May
This is the first part of the series of John's articles on Storytelling in Concept Photography. You can find Part 2 and Part 3 of the series here:
Storytelling in Concept...
06
May
I was very happy to see an email from Milton Menezes, director of LightFarm Studios, Brazil in our Retouching Academy Facebook page mailbox. The LFS team have just released their...
27
Apr
When I first started out as a product photographer and retoucher at a large fashion company, I tried to search for tutorials, tips, and tricks to take my game...
16
Apr
A typical issue that photographers face when capturing digital images is limited dynamic range of DSLR cameras. We always have to choose between which detail we would like to...
12
Apr
Retouching Academy on Facebook.
Listen to Julia and Lulie chat about retouching as a craft, retouching career and growing as a creative professional.
Lulie's Website & Social...
11
Apr
I recently published my interview with one of my most favorite digital artists Alexia Sinclair on Fstoppers. My full interview, however, was much longer and I picked Alexia's brain about...
13
Mar
I recently published an article on Fstoppers about one of the Retouching Academy community group members Juan Sánchez Castillo from Spain and his beautiful series "Making It Up". In that article...
05
Feb
UPDATE: The finalists and the Winner are announced on Fstoppers:
The Awesome Robocop Retouching Contest Winners
Congratulations, Jeff Whitlock!
My Fstoppers colleague, NYC based Commercial Photographer Douglas Sonders, is running a fun...
03
Feb
In this video we'll be discussing some of the most important layer Blending modes for retouchers to understand, as well as present practical examples of when they are used.
We've...
18
Jan
In this post our Guest Artist Michael Herb, Commercial, Editorial and Conceptual Photographer from Las Vegas, NV talks about the importance of self-promotion for artists and shares his own methods....
16
Jan
In this post our Guest Artist Shayne Gray from Toronto, Canada will walk us through the creation process of his "Red Dress Twirl" image.
I am really enjoying reading through...
15
Jan
In this post our Guest Artist photographer & master photoshopper (who is a full-time consultant and a team leader at an e-commerce company by day) Johan Normén from Alingsås, Sweden will show us...
10
Jan
We recently had a lengthy discussion in our Retouching Academy Community group regarding the importance and definition of image resolution. Even though it is pretty straight forward there is...