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01 Mar
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching, Stay Inspired

Follow the New Capture One Dedication Campaign

  • January 22, 2025
  • Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
  • capture one, RA inspiration
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In the newly released Capture One Dedication Campaign, Phase One highlights the dedication and creativity behind professional photography. Check out their new series of videos exploring various photography disciplines...

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23 Jan
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Review of Lightroom Classic Versus Lightroom CC

  • January 5, 2019
  • Posted by Julia McKim
  • adobe, adobe lightroom
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If you have been a loyal Adobe Lightroom user, you probably already know that Adobe discontinued perpetually licensed Lightroom 6 in 2017, and most likely support for it will...

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16 Jan
Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

No, CVS is Not Banning Retouched Images

  • January 5, 2019
  • Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
  • beauty retouching, commercial retouching, retouching ban
  • 6 comments
Yesterday, a myriad of news websites proclaimed that CVS, one of the largest drugstores in the U.S., had announced a ban on photo manipulation in makeup marketing created for...

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02 Jan
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Darktable Now Available in Windows Too

  • January 22, 2025
  • Posted by Julia McKim
  • darktable, lightroom, raw format
  • 2 comments
Beginner photographers and retouchers who are looking for free alternatives to Adobe subscription software until their hobby turns into a freelance business, may be delighted to know that Darktable,...

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06 Dec
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Powerful New Tools for One-Click Selections Coming Soon to Photoshop

  • January 13, 2019
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • adobe photoshop, selections
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Adobe Sensei, which is Adobe’s AI machine-learning apparatus, has been the backbone for much of the powerful innovations brought to their applications. Recently, Adobe teased a new feature that removes...

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23 Oct
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe’s New Creative Cloud Photography Plan

  • January 7, 2019
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • adobe photoshop, Adobe Updates, CC2018
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Adobe has launched a brand new version of Adobe Lightroom, along with a host of popularly requested new features for Photoshop CC 2018 and Lightroom Classic CC. With these...

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07 Oct
Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

New French Law Requires Label For Retouched Images

  • January 22, 2025
  • Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
  • commercial retouching, retouching
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Effective October 1st, a new French law goes into effect that requires any commercial photos of models that have been digitally altered to appear thinner or thicker to bear the...

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23 Aug
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Instagram Improves the Comments Section

  • January 22, 2025
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • instagram engagement, instagram marketing, social media
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Over the past few years, Instagram has become one of the main self-marketing platforms for freelancers and collectives in all creative fields, including photography and retouching. We keep a close...

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15 Aug
Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

Have an Audience Curate Your Best Photos With cinnac

  • January 9, 2019
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • instagram engagement, marketing, social media
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Have you ever shared a photograph to social media that you personally adored, but found the reception from your audience to be disappointing? What about an instance where you...

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09 Aug
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Corel Launches PaintShop Pro 2018

  • January 9, 2019
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • digital image editing, image editing, post-production
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Canadian software company, Corel, best known for CorelDRAW and Corel Painter, have a habit of successfully revamping beloved applications. WordPerfect from Novell, and even PaintShop Pro from JASC (back...

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06 Aug
Industry & Community News, Stay Inspired

Take a Peek Into The New Adobe’s Office in London

  • January 9, 2019
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • adobe, adobe office, working space
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Have you ever wondered where Adobe magic is made? US multinational software giant Adobe, the creator of our very main retouching software Photoshop, has opened a new vibrant office in...

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27 Jul
Business & Clients, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe Flash is Officially Dead

  • January 14, 2019
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • adobe, portfolio, tech news
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Earlier this week, Adobe announced something that has been in the works since the iPhone first came out: the death of Flash. While most of the web has adapted,...

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25 Jun
Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

Natural Trends in Fashion Retouching

  • January 19, 2019
  • Posted by Daniel Meadows
  • fashion retouching, retouching
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Retouching, as with photography and fashion itself, has always been a slave to trends, and the driving force behind what we as industry professionals produce for our clients has...

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22 Jun
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Find Out How That Photo Was Edited With Pixel Peeper

  • January 19, 2019
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • adobe lightroom, image editing, retouching
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Have you ever admired a photograph and wondered just how they achieved that look in post? If you have, and the photographer used Adobe Lightroom, then you’re in luck!...

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21 Jun
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe’s Upward Momentum and What Is Next

  • January 19, 2019
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • adobe, adobe blog news, tech news
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Adobe is having a record week: beating profit estimates, launching Adobe Advertising Cloud TV, and utilizing Adobe Sensei’s sophisticated A.I. machine learning. It has been a busy week, and...

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16 Jun
Fundamentals, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

The Hidden Treasures of Creativity in Adobe Photoshop

  • January 19, 2019
  • Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
  • Adobe news, contest, photoshop tools
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Every experienced digital artist and retoucher knows how important your choice of brushes is for each specific purpose. With that in mind, on June 15, 2017, Adobe announced the release of a...

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06 Jun
Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News

Apple Vies For The Affection Of Power Users with iMac Pro

  • December 17, 2018
  • Posted by Kendra Paige
  • apple, imac
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With the Mac Pro released in 2013 with few updates to follow, creative and professional Mac users were beginning to bite their nails with worry that Apple had abandoned...

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30 May
Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

Huge Summer Sale on Fstoppers!

  • December 17, 2018
  • Posted by Julia McKim
  • commercial photography, fstoppers, sale
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Our friends at Fstoppers are currently running a huge summer sale for all of their tutorials. Most of those tutorials include post-production and are very valuable if you are getting...

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29 Jan
Business & Clients, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe Creative Cloud Subscriptions – The Devil is in the Details

  • January 25, 2019
  • Posted by Gerry Kingsley
  • adobe, Creative Cloud, News
  • 16 comments
We all love our Adobe products, but recently I had the misfortune of being caught by the Adobe Creative Cloud cancellation ‟penalty.” Turns out, when you sign up for any...

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23 Jun
Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

The New and Old Features of The Latest Update: Photoshop CC2015.5

  • December 15, 2018
  • Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
  • adobe photoshop, RA Panels, software update
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While I am very happy about the return of the Legacy Healing Algorithm for the Healing Brush tool and excited to play with the new features, I can't wrap my...

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