08
Sep
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,...
THE ART & BUSINESS OF FREELANCE
28
Aug
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...
01
Jul
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...
01
Apr
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...
26
Mar
As of March 25th, 2025, Adobe will no longer allow the creation of multiple Adobe Stock Contributor accounts without written approval.
This quiet but important policy shift signals Adobe’s intent...
27
Sep
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...
09
Apr
As I advance in the Applied Generative AI course by MIT, I am completely and irrevocably convinced that the freelance business in the content creation field is experiencing a...
13
Mar
The freelance world is undergoing a seismic shift propelled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Generative AI.
In my latest blog post, you will find how I believe this transformative technology is...
25
Apr
While retouching artists aren't usually really independent in their work and art (I guess, apart from AI creations now accessible to all, but that's a separate topic altogether), we...
26
Nov
The biggest sale of the year is here! Enjoy our offers today and this weekend:
OUR BEST-SELLING STREAMING COURSES
Use discount code BF2021 for over 25% off the original prices of...
02
Sep
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.
20
May
Another weekly Beauty Retouching Challenge has begun! Enter the RA Beauty Retouching Challenge #6 and download the new Challenge Image…
24
Apr
We care deeply about the quality of our products and choose not to jeopardize our users’ experience by offering panels that might not perform as they should due to outdated Adobe software. As a result, we will no longer offer RA Panels for Photoshop CS6 for purchase…
23
Apr
Enter the RA Beauty Retouching Challenge #4 and download the new Challenge Image…
13
Apr
Find out the results of the first two rounds here: Challenge #1 Results and Challenge #2 Results Overview with my notes and a timelapse retouching video.
NEW ROUND! CHALLENGE #3
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01
Apr
CHALLENGE #1 RESULTS
Our first Beauty Retouching Challenge went really well and over 200 artists of all skill levels submitted their retouches to the Challenge album.
The Challenge #1 winner...
20
Mar
Let’s use this downtime as an opportunity to practice, better ourselves, learn something new and have a little fun!✎ Challenge #1 starts on March 20th, 2020;
✎ Retouched Challenge Images...
27
Jun
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...
05
Jun
This year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was an eventful one for Apple, announcing many exciting new software features and products. Notably, the pro users (or power users) got the recognition they wanted, with a refresh of the Mac Pro, as well as Apple finally releasing a new display. We’ll discuss some of these in more detail, as well as one particular new feature that may give you the drawing tablet you’ve always wanted.
14
May
On May 8th, 2019, Adobe mysteriously pulled all but the two most recent versions of their applications for download. Immediately following this announcement, however, actively subscribed customers began receiving...