04
Apr
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
~ David Hockney
Happy Easter, RA artists!
19
Feb
Happy Birthday, Photoshop!
We wouldn't be here if not for the existence of this wonderful software that gives us -retouchers, graphic designers, photographers and digital artists - wings to fly.
Check...
12
Feb
I have recently changed the way I work with brushes when Dodging & Burning and they made my D&B work more convenient and precise. I'd like to share why and...
13
Aug
Scheduled for Aug 15, 2014 - 8am PDT
Retouching Academy Google+ Event page with comments from the Live show:
The judging panel today consists of Julia Kuzmenko McKim (Los Angeles, California), Rebecca...
06
Aug
This is the fourth part of the article by our guest Australian Commercial Digital Retoucher Peter Worthington.
Part I: The Importance of Layer Organization in Commercial Retouching – Part I
Part II: The...
25
Jul
This is the third part of the article by our guest Australian Commercial Digital Retoucher Peter Worthington.
Part I: The Importance of Layer Organization in Commercial Retouching – Part I
Part II: The Importance of Layer...
16
Jul
Shooting food is different than portrait, architectural, or landscape photography. When shooting food, there is one end goal of your image. YOU WANT YOUR VIEWER TO BE HUNGRY! If...
08
Jul
This is the second part of the article by our guest Australian Commercial Digital Retoucher Peter Worthington.
Part I: The Importance of Layer Organization in Commercial Retouching – Part I.
Enjoy!
Previously, I mentioned how...
02
Jul
In this tutorial our guest Commercial Digital Retoucher Peter Worthington will walk us through his workflow and share the most effective ways of handling layers in your master files...
05
May
We have selected our Winner for April 2014 RAMP!
We haven't recorded a video of our selection process this time, but our RA team have discussed all submissions and runner...
29
Apr
In our Retouching Academy Community Group we are all about correct retouching.
Mo Ment: Retouching: my early days :)
Ntc Meyer: ok there are some points you should have worked on...
18
Apr
Just like most artists who share their work on the internet, I often get emails from people I don't know. Typically, they are just expressing their appreciation for what I create or write, or...
16
Apr
A typical issue that photographers face when capturing digital images is limited dynamic range of DSLR cameras. We always have to choose between which detail we would like to...
07
Apr
This is becoming a good tradition, and we hope that our RA Mentorship Program can last longer, despite the fact that it is far from perfect at this point....
02
Mar
This time we've actually got together and looked through the submitted images. We've talked about what we thought was done well, as well as what could have been done...
25
Feb
As you already know, we are an educational organization, and, although we are very young, we're working towards having a wide range of online and offline educational programs for...
04
Feb
We are super excited to announce that the first round of the Mentorship Program in our Retouching Academy Community group is finished and our winner Mentees are announced along...
18
Jan
In this post our Guest Artist Michael Herb, Commercial, Editorial and Conceptual Photographer from Las Vegas, NV talks about the importance of self-promotion for artists and shares his own methods....
05
Jan
The general term “Retouching” can be categorized under the following subject-specific areas of Portrait, Editorial, Commercial, Beauty and Creative Retouching.
Each of these areas possesses its own assembly of considerations...
12
Dec
Please read How to Set Preferences & Memory Usage for Peak Performance before you continue reading this article.
History & Caches
Simply put, keep History States and Cache Levels at their default settings,...