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01 Sep

Guest Post, Industry & Community News

Retoucher of the Year: Recognising the World’s Best Retouching Talent

• October 1, 2026
• Posted by Tímea Buknicz
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A new contest for retouchers will name winners in seven categories in four parts of the world. Some of a retoucher’s best work can never be shown because of NDAs. Retoucher of the Year gives every entrant the same RAW files and brief, and judges review layered PSDs as entrants advance.

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08 Sep

Freelance Business, Industry & Community News, Real World Practices

AI in Vogue: The Pushback

• September 8, 2025
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• ai vs human artist, generative ai, vogue
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In its August 2025 issue, Vogue featured an AI-generated model in a Guess ad, prompting a wave of subscriber cancellations: Vogue’s AI-Generated Models Spark Reader Fury And Industry Panic, Forbes,...

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28 Aug

Freelance Business, Industry & Community News

Reinventing Your Creative Career: Evolve Your Skills Without Starting Over

• August 29, 2025
• Posted by Jennifer McIntyre
• creative career, freelance business
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Concept by JENN MCINTYRE, Written BY JENN MCINTYRE & JULIA KUZMENKO MCKIM The creative market is undergoing its biggest transformation of our time. For newer professionals, it’s the first significant disruption...

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01 Jul

Beauty Retouching, Industry & Community News

New Beauty Retouch Version 5 is Finally Here!

• October 1, 2026
• Posted by Retouching Academy Team
• beauty retouch panel, beauty retouching, skin retouching
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The new Beauty Retouch Panel v5 has got a bunch of new tools and scripts to help make your beauty and portrait retouching faster and easier. Even if you start...

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01 Apr

Business & Clients, Freelance Business, Industry & Community News

What is Freelance in the Visual Industry

• April 2, 2025
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• freelance business, visual industry
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What is the Visual Industry? The Visual Industry is a broad field of sectors dedicated to producing visual content to communicate messages and shape experiences. Visual Arts are forms of art...

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27 Sep

Industry & Community News, Real World Practices

Retouching Freelance Market Trends Report (Q3 2024): Key Insights from Our Survey

• April 2, 2025
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• freelance business, retouching freelance
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Written BY JULIA KUZMENKO MCKIM INTRODUCTION In polling and survey methodologies, it is well-known that after reaching a threshold sample size, the results stabilize, and the law of diminishing returns comes...

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02 Sep

Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

New Skin Retouching Course on Our New Streaming Platform

• September 18, 2026
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• beauty retouching, retouching video, skin retouching, video tutorial
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The Skin Retouching course is available on our new streaming platform located at learn.retouchingacademy.com, and now you can conveniently continue learning even when you are away from your desk and watch the lessons on your mobile devices via this mobile app.

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27 Jun

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

Why You Should Not Give A Magazine Exclusive Rights To Your Images For Free

• March 24, 2021
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• fashion editorials, magazine exclusivity, magazine submissions
• 6 comments

Editorials are a hot commodity when it comes to photographers and other artists looking to showcase their work to potential clients. While in the past, a photographer could expect...

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24 Jan

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

WARNING: Elaborate Scams Targeting Photographers and How to Avoid Them

• January 28, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• artist scam, photography fraud, photography scam
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The digital age has given rise to a new type of criminal: sophisticated scammers capable of repeated feats of social engineering and elaborate long cons. The Hollywood Reporter initially...

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06 Dec

Industry & Community News, Real World Practices

WARNING: Creative Professionals & Models Targeted

• January 29, 2019
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
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Dear Artists, Beware, this alarming email has been sent out to many creative professionals and models around the world (see screenshots below). My colleague received it today, did a bit...

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25 Sep

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

What’s Wrong With Magazines Charging Their Contributors For Submissions

• January 13, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• editorial photography, magazine submissions, paid magazine submissions
• 13 comments

Beauty and fashion editorials are an opportunity for artists to showcase their creativity and skills. They often act as a means of advertising the team’s talents to potential clients...

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06 Sep

Efficiency & Productivity, Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News

XP-Pen Products Might Be The Best Budget Alternative to the Industry Standard Wacom Tablets

• December 20, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• graphics tablet, new tech, xp pen
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We all love our Wacom tools and consider them a mandatory piece of hardware for any professional or aspiring professional retoucher. The Wacom Cintiq Pro line of graphic displays...

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31 Aug

Efficiency & Productivity, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Next Major Adobe Creative Cloud Release Won’t Support Older Operating Systems (Mac & Win)

• September 18, 2026
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• adobe, Creative Cloud
• 3 comments

Some alerting news come from Adobe for the artists who stick with older Mac and Windows Operating Systems: the next major release of Creative Cloud won’t support older versions...

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28 Aug

Efficiency & Productivity, Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News

Apple Releasing a Pro-Focused Mac Mini and Low-Cost MacBook Air

• December 20, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• retouching hardware, tech news
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Apple Inc. recently announced the upcoming  pro-focused Mac Mini and a new “low-cost” MacBook Air. The new laptop is rumored to include a Retina Display and said to have...

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21 Aug

Efficiency & Productivity, Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News

Fastest Storage Drives Ever Created Introduced by Intel

• December 20, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• retouching hardware, storage, tech news
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Intel's latest memory technology named Optane 800P uses recently developed 3D XPoint (pronounced “cross-point”) technology to deliver incredible speed. This new memory tech uses a type of non-volatile memory...

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17 Jul

Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Full Photoshop on Your Apple iPad Next Year

• December 26, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• apple ipad, mobile retouching
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It’s no secret that hardware performance in mobile devices is progressing so rapidly that it's been seriously changing the way smartphones and tablets are used by creative professionals, especially...

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04 Jul

Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News

The New Most Powerful GPU Technology Promises Amazing Improvements In Post-Production Tools and Techniques

• December 26, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• retouching gpu, tech news
• 2 comments

NVIDIA recently announced its new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) named “Volta” which will bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) supercomputing and Deep Learning technology to GPUs in every industry. A few months...

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07 May

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching, Stay Inspired

Adobe Slashes Creative Cloud Subscription Fee for Students

• May 6, 2018
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• adobe blog news, adobe education, Creative Cloud
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Last January Adobe announced that it would provide Spark Education — a set of storytelling apps — free of charge for K-12 (kindergarten to 12th grade, primary and secondary education)...

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01 May

Beauty Retouching, Industry & Community News, Stay Inspired

Announcing the RA Beauty Retouching Contest

• September 18, 2026
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• beauty retouching, retouching contest
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We hope that you’ve been inspired by our @retouchingacademy Instagram feed while learning and growing as a retouching artist and member of our Facebook RA Community. Now is your chance...

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19 Apr

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Phase One Releases Capture One 11.1

• September 18, 2026
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• capture one, phase one
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Phase One announced a significant update today to its popular RAW conversion and image editing software, Capture One. This new release promises to improve the user experience with a...

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