Video Tutorial Archives

01 Oct

Real World Practices, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

Color Grading with the Color Balance Tool in Photoshop

One of the most powerful means of impacting your audience is through the effective use of color. Setting the mood, creating an atmosphere, or even just using an aesthetically pleasing color palette is vital to attracting the clients you...

30 Aug

Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

How to Use Color Calibration Profiles in Lightroom

January 9, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
adobe lightroom, color calibration, color management in lightroom
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Effective use of color should be a top priority for all retouchers and photographers. While there are multiple ways to manage colors, one particularly underused yet simple feature is the Camera Calibration tool within Adobe Lightroom. In this video tutorial...

28 Aug

Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

How to Quickly Change Your Background Color in Photoshop

January 9, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
adjustment layers, background, hue saturation
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There will often be times when retouchers are asked to change the background color of an image. Like many aspects of retouching, there are a myriad of ways to accomplish this task. One of our favorite methods in Photoshop...

24 Aug

Quality Printing, Video Tutorial

How To Prepare Your Images For Print

November 10, 2020
Posted by Kendra Paige
color calibration, icc profiles, printing
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As retouchers, we enhance, polish, and perfect images in order to create a beautiful final result. Part of our role is to ensure that wherever the images are displayed, they are shown in the best light. Our laser-focused attention to detail should not stop once the image is retouched, but should continue through the printing stage when our work is meant for print.

23 Aug

Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

Color Grade Like A Professional

January 9, 2019
Posted by Daniel Meadows
color grading, video tutorial, working with colors
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Owing to the free and open nature of the internet there's a lot of content, and not all of it is good. There are countless retouching tutorials and many, I would even say most of them, teach some pretty...

03 Aug

Fundamentals, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

Adobe Launches a YouTube Series for Beginners

January 9, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
photoshop, photoshop for beginners, video tutorial
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This week, Adobe launched a new YouTube series of Photoshop tutorials aimed at beginners, called ‘3, 2, 1 … Photoshop!’ This series of videos created by longtime Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost, covers a useful sampling of tips and tricks for...

25 Jul

Beauty Retouching, High-End Beauty & Fashion, Video Tutorial

Retouching Skin with Dodging and Burning

January 14, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
beauty retouching, dodge & burn, skin retouching
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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 on skin. We previously shared Zoë Noble’s tutorial on using the...

18 Jul

Fundamentals, High-End Beauty & Fashion, Video Tutorial

Essential Retouching Tools for Face & Hair

April 24, 2020
Posted by Michael Woloszynowicz
beauty retouching, retouching tools, video tutorial
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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 the basics of the tools but also best practices for...

16 Jul

Efficiency & Productivity, Real World Practices, Video Tutorial

Remove Dust, Lint and Debris Quickly

January 15, 2019
Posted by Daniel Meadows
efficiency & productivity, RA Panels, retouching tips
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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 once you've achieved a professional competence might just save your...

06 Jul

Beauty Retouching, Fundamentals, Video Tutorial

Retouching Skin With The Clone Stamp Tool

May 17, 2018
Posted by Kendra Paige
beauty retouching, clone stamp, skin retouching
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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 Stamp tool is our number one instrument when it comes...

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...

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...

08 Jun

Beauty Retouching, Video Tutorial

RA Quick Tip: A Few Very Important Steps of Beauty Retouching Workflow Before Retouching Even Begins

November 28, 2018
Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
beauty retouching, RA Quick Tip, Raw processing
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I often get asked about my retouching techniques and by the way those questions are asked I realize that a lot of photographers and retouchers dismiss the true power of Raw files. So today I would like to share with you...

10 May

Efficiency & Productivity, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

If you have not changed your standard stylus nib ever since you purchased your Wacom tablet, take a peek into your pen stand and try different nibs until you find the one that works...

25 Jun

Beauty Retouching, Video Tutorial

Dodge and Burn: Working with Micro Transitions

January 21, 2019
Posted by Julia McKim
beauty retouching, dodge & burn, RA Quick Tip
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Transitional Values, Tonal Transitions, and Micro Transitions are a big part of how we define the qualities that make up an image in photography. Transitional Values are the values found between the midtones and the shadows, and between the midtones...