The world of professional beauty retouching is very exciting, collaborative and diverse. However, the percentage of skilled professionals who are qualified to work for prestigious commercial clients in the beauty, health and wellness industry is very small. While a myriad of freelancers compete at the bottom of the retouching market, skilled retouching professionals are in high demand due to the sheer number of businesses that create an enormous amount of visual content today. They all need qualified post-production help: processing, retouching, color-matching.

Working pro retouchers are well-versed in common practices when retouching and handling their clients’ files. They know what is expected of them and know when and what to ask. Proper skills and reliability are all that matter. When budgets are measured in tens of thousands of dollars, no one has the time to deal with an incompetent or disorganized freelancer in the fast-paced business world.

While we can’t help you become more reliable or resilient, our course can undeniably help improve your skills and lay a foundation for professional retouching methods and habits, so you are completely prepared when the opportunity arises.

This course is created by commercial beauty photographer and retoucher Julia Kuzmenko McKim (Los Angeles, CA) and narrated by professional retoucher Sarah Tucker (London, UK).

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 5 hours
Videos: 24 video lessons, including 2 full retouches from start to finish
Format: Streaming
Additional Materials: Custom Brushes + Job Application Checklist + Pro Retouching Vocabulary
Practice Files:  3 Raw files photographed by Julia Kuzmenko & Anita Sadowska 

Unlike our previous courses, which focused on specific retouching tools and techniques—albeit crucial ones—this time, we’re taking a more holistic approach to an area that beauty, portrait, and fashion retouchers need to master: skin retouching.

The challenges faced by retouchers dealing with skin are broad and diverse, making it one of the most difficult subjects to master.

A high-quality, campaign-level skin retouch, especially in close-up beauty images, is much harder to perform than a sloppy one that lacks understanding of the key tools and techniques.

The ultimate purpose of this in-depth course is that you gain confidence in tackling a variety of skin retouching challenges and, after deliberate practice, produce results that are both polished and natural.

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: Over 7 hours
Videos: 39 video lessons
Format: Streaming
Access: Lifetime
Additional Materials:  2 Custom Action Sets
Practice Files: 7 Raw & PSD files photographed by Michael Woloszynowicz & Julia Kuzmenko McKim