Successful Retouching Business Archives

25 Jun

Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

Natural Trends in Fashion Retouching

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 always been what the consumer wants to see. These are...

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! Web developer, Piotr Chmolowski, has launched a website that lifts...

21 Jun

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe’s Upward Momentum and What Is Next

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 that can only be good news for us. On Tuesday, June...

18 Jun

Business & Clients, Efficiency & Productivity, High-End Beauty & Fashion

Kavyar Takes the Fuss out of Magazine Submissions

January 19, 2019
Posted by Kendra Paige
beauty photography, editorial photography, magazine submissions
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For many fashion and beauty photographers, having their work showcased in independent magazines is a way to gain exposure. This process was rarely ever an efficient one, however, as each publication is vastly different. Traditionally, the method for doing...

16 Jun

Fundamentals, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

The Hidden Treasures of Creativity in Adobe Photoshop

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 new set of digital brushes created from 360 scans of...

12 Jun

Retouching Job Alert

#JOBALERT: Senior Digital Retoucher for Logitech

Location: Newark, CA Posted: Jun 12, 2017 Source: Logitech Employment type: Full-time Job description: SENIOR DIGITAL RETOUCHER The Sr. Digital Retoucher is responsible for performing photo retouching, masking and swatch matching for a variety or products. He or she will work closely with the creative team...

09 Jun

Commercial Retouching, Retouching Job Alert

#JOBALERT: Senior Retoucher for Rankin

Location: London, United Kingdom Posted: Jun 9, 2017 Source: Rankin Photography Ltd Employment type: Full-time Job function: Advertising, Art/Creative Job description: SENIOR RETOUCHER We’re looking for an exceptionally talented Retoucher to join the in house team. You will have a minimum of 5 years professional retouching behind you with...

08 Jun

Commercial Retouching, Retouching Job Alert

#JOBALERT: Retouching Artist for Verizon

Location: New York, NY Posted: Jun 7, 2017 Source: Coroflot Job Description: RETOUCHING ARTIST At 140 West, you will be part of the energy that’s evolving the Verizon brand to become a leading technology player. The new Tribeca space will bring together some of...

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 them. At a shareholder meeting at Cupertino in February, Apple...

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...

30 May

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

Huge Summer Sale on Fstoppers!

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 into a specific type of photography, even if only as...

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
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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 annual Adobe CC subscription that’s paid monthly, you’re actually committing...

25 Jan

Beauty Retouching, Efficiency & Productivity, Real World Practices

Don’t Let Facebook Image Compression Ruin Your Images

December 17, 2018
Posted by Julia McKim
retouching, software
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So, you just spent hours retouching your perfect shot. Naturally, you want to share it with the world, so you upload it to your Facebook page, only to find your hard work trashed and frankly looking like sh!#t. Well, rumor has...

06 Sep

Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Software for Retouching

Working With Selections: The New Select and Mask Feature

December 17, 2018
Posted by Gerry Kingsley
fundamentals, photoshop basics, selections
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Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 recently released their 5.0 update which brought us a revamp of the already useful tool formerly known as Refine Edge. Let’s look at what’s new and how we can take advantage of this new update...

17 Aug

Efficiency & Productivity, Fundamentals, Software for Retouching

Selection Tools Overview

December 15, 2018
Posted by Gerry Kingsley
photoshop tools, selections
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One of the most powerful tools for retouchers in Adobe Photoshop is the ability to select and modify pixels, referred to as making selections. Located on the tool bar, Selection tools are used to isolate one or several parts...

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 head around the name of the update - why is...

07 Jun

Business & Clients, Commercial Retouching

How Much To Charge For Retouching. Part Two: Project Billing

November 23, 2020
Posted by Daniel Meadows
retouching business, retouching freelance, retouching rates
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In ‘How Much To Charge For Retouching Part One: Billing Hourly’ we took a look at hourly billing, the positives and negatives that it brings as a pricing model, and a rough idea of a typical hourly retoucher’s fee. In...

31 May

Efficiency & Productivity, Industry & Community News

#RETOUCHINGSPACE Contest Winner!

Congratulations Manuela Crippa! Manuela participated in the ‪#‎RETOUCHINGSPACE‬ contest that we held a couple of weeks ago on Instagram. Her image was short-listed and consequently selected by majority vote in the Retouching Academy group. Manuela is a Beauty & Fashion Retoucher from...

25 May

Business & Clients, Commercial Retouching

How Much to Charge For Retouching. Part One: Billing Hourly

November 23, 2020
Posted by Daniel Meadows
retouching business, retouching freelance, retouching rates
2 comments

One of more frequent questions we’re asked at Retouching Academy is ‘how much should I be charging for retouching?’ Tutorials, articles, and advice on how to improve your retouching output are widely available, but the issue of pricing can...

18 May

Efficiency & Productivity, Hardware & Tools

Back Up Your Wacom Tablet Settings

Dear RA Artists, A member of our RA Community reported some issues that he encountered with his Wacom tablet (Intuos Pro S) after updating his tablet driver to the latest version, from 6.3.15 to 6.3.16 today and we wanted to remind you to always back...