photoshop tricks and hacks for retouching
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04 Oct
Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

These 19 Hacks Will Help You Improve Your Retouching in Photoshop

To stay relevant and marketable in this highly competitive industry, it’s important to keep your skills sharp and to constantly learn new and improved ways to get the job done. Photoshop is a tool of our trade, but with...

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retouching beauty portraits in lightroom
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03 Oct
Beauty Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

How to Retouch Portraits in Adobe Lightroom

Adobe applications have become more accessible than ever, making Lightroom a popular choice among photographers and retouchers. While many have fit Lightroom into their workflow for organizing, batch processing, and basic adjustments, Lightroom in and of itself is a...

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how to use puppet warp for retouching in photoshop
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27 Sep
Commercial Retouching, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

Using Puppet Warp in Adobe Photoshop

By using Puppet Warp in Adobe Photoshop, you can manipulate the structure of a subject’s shape, features, or even reposition things like limbs or hair. It’s as if you’re the puppet master and the subject is the puppet. By...

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how to set up and use a wacom graphics tablet for retouching
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19 Sep
Hardware & Tools, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

How to Set Up and Use a Wacom Tablet

A retoucher should be using the best tool for the job, and there’s really no better choice than a Wacom tablet. While a mouse or trackpad may be what most are familiar with in their day-to-day use, the efficiency...

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using lightroom to color grade a video in premiere
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12 Sep
Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

Color Grade Your Videos Using LUTs From Lightroom

Color Look Up Tables (or LUTs) can give your images a distinct look and feel though their colors. In our recent LUT-related article, you learned how to use LUTs in Photoshop to color grade an image, and this video tutorial...

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What's New in Lightroom 7.5 Classic and Lightroom 3.6 CC
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05 Sep
Hardware & Tools, Video Tutorial

New Features in Lightroom Classic 7.5 and Lightroom CC 3.6

Adobe recently released update 7.5 for Lightroom Classic as well as an update for Lightroom CC version 3.6. While these updates aren’t necessarily game-changing, they do come with improvements and fixes worth getting excited over. New in Lightroom Classic 7.5 ...

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using the color grading options in lightroom
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30 Aug
Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

Demystifying the HSL Tool in Lightroom

One of the most overlooked tools in Lightroom is the HSL (Hue, Saturation, and Luminance) color adjustment window. If you’re just beginning your journey into editing your images and learning Lightroom, you’ll find that HSL is a powerful color grading tool...

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get perfect skin tones using curves adjustment in photoshop
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23 Aug
Beauty Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

4 Great Methods to Perfect Skin Tones Using Curves in Photoshop

Correcting and controlling color, especially in skin tones, is an imperative part of the retouching process. Skin tone can be impacted by a variety of causes, such as lighting setups, the surrounding environment, as well as how the camera...

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how to remove color fringe from hair in photoshop
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09 Aug
Real World Practices, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

How to Remove Color Fringing From Hair in Photoshop

Hair can sometimes feel like the bane of a retoucher’s existence, due to the visual complexity of hair and the various techniques you need to know to handle it correctly. If you need to remove a subject from their background,...

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31 Jul
Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Video Tutorial

Quick Tip for Getting Better Results Using Content Aware Fill

Originally released in Photoshop CS5, Content Aware Fill was a tool ahead of its time. Using texture replacement synthesis, which was originally developed from space-time video completion as a means to correct corrupted data in video. In Photoshop however,...

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27 Jul
Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Video Tutorial

Exporting Images for Facebook, Instagram and Your Website from Photoshop

This week we are taking a look at one of the most frequently asked questions in the photography community on the web: What is the best way to export images for social media and your website? We’ll talk about optimizing...

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26 Jul
Business & Clients, Video Tutorial

How to Respond When Clients Ask You for RAW Files

One aspect of our job description as photographers is educating our clients. A question that comes up often with smaller business and individual clients is: "Can I have all of the RAW files from the shoot?" This is a question...

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color grading with split toning in lightroom
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05 Jul
Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

How to Use Split Toning to Color Grade Your Images in Lightroom

Color grading photographs is an essential part of retouching, as beautiful skin and hair can be undermined by a poor use of color. There is no shortage of methods for manipulating color, which can range from complicated to simplistic. Split...

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five ways to remove any objects in photoshop
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27 Jun
Real World Practices, Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial

5 Ways to Remove Anything From an Image in Photoshop

Retouching often involves removing distractions and imperfections, so understanding the various techniques for accomplishing this task is essential. There are multiple tools within Photoshop that you can turn to, but appreciating the differences of each will help you to...

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How to Add Neon Effects In Photoshop
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19 Jun
Creative Retouching, Fundamentals, Video Tutorial

How to Make Neon Effects Using Photoshop

Are you bored with the same old portraits, are you in a creative funk? Thankfully Photoshop has you covered with tons of ways to express your creativity and sometimes the simplest tips yield the biggest results. In this quick...

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restoring skin texture for great skin retouching
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13 Jun
Beauty Retouching, Real World Practices, Video Tutorial

How to Recover Skin Texture in Overexposed Areas

Quality beauty and portrait retouching is all about the skin, and how we preserve or enhance the detail of it, rather than blur it all away. Today’s video tutorial centers on how to recover skin texture from blown out...

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Lightroom Automask Feature
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12 Jun
Efficiency & Productivity, Real World Practices, Video Tutorial

Auto Mask: The Lightroom Power Tool You Probably Never Heard Of

Every once in a while we discover a retouching tip or trick that blows us away, and we wonder how it was possible that we had not already heard about it? Buried deep within Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic...

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inexpensive ways to market your photography and retouching
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07 Jun
Business & Clients, Successful Retouching Business, Video Tutorial

5 Inexpensive Ways to Market Your Work as a Photographer or Retoucher

As freelance artists, it is our sole responsibility to market our work so that we can gain a loyal clientele. While many artists can produce work that will please their clients, they often struggle when it comes to self-promotion...

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hidden tricks and hacks in lightroom for retouching workflow
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30 May
Software for Retouching, Video Tutorial, Working With Colors

5 Hidden Tricks for Speeding up Your Workflow in Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom is a robust application with hundreds of tools, making it very possible to discover entirely new techniques years into using it. Lightroom is not just a powerful RAW Converter, but it is a fantastic program for organizing...

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