Created by Julia Kuzmenko McKim and Michael Woloszynowicz, professional beauty and fashion photographers, retouchers, and educators. Every lesson distills decades of combined industry experience into the refined retouching methods we use in commercial work.

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Photographers and retouchers with basic Photoshop skills who are new to beauty retouching and want to learn it properly to a professional level. This bundle is a great choice whether you are starting out in beauty retouching or filling gaps in skills you already have.

• Solid skill base. The complete professional retouching workflow, then proper skin and hair retouching methods, principles, tools, and techniques for high-quality work, including close-up beauty.
• Lean-PSD, non-destructive workflow. Client revisions never mean redoing your work from scratch.
• Career potential. Once internalized through deliberate practice, these workflows open career paths to offering retouching services to paid clients along with your photography, entry-level (junior, due to limited experience) in-house retouching roles, or remote freelance retouching work from anywhere in the world. Most of our Avenue studio retouchers took RA courses and use our methods and workflows.

Yes. The course is taught in Adobe Photoshop, the standard software for professional retouching.

Even if you begin culling and editing your images on an AI platform, professional beauty and fashion images require a proper, detailed finish in Photoshop.

A graphics tablet (Wacom or other) is recommended, but it is not required to start. Module 1 in the Beauty Retouching for Beginners course will help you set it up properly.

For Beginner-Level courses and bundles, no retouching experience is required. Some basic knowledge of the Photoshop interface, layers, masking, and basic tools will be helpful, and we’ll take it from there.

Intermediate to Advanced courses and bundles assume some existing retouching experience. They touch on the fundamentals but focus primarily on advanced methods and don’t cover the basics in depth.

Lifetime. Once enrolled, the course stays in your account.

Enrollment includes all course materials and any future updates. Courses are self-paced and hosted on a streaming platform, so you can learn at your own speed and revisit lessons anytime on desktop, laptop, or mobile devices through the Kajabi app.

Yes. Every course includes downloadable bonus materials such as practice files, custom actions, brushes, and more. You’ll find them at the start of each course on the Additional Materials & Downloads or Welcome to the Course pages.

Yes. Leave comments under any lesson, and our team or Julia will answer and support your learning.

Some courses also include a private community where you can ask questions, suggest new lessons, and get feedback from instructors and fellow students.

Immediately after purchase, you’ll receive an email with login details and instructions to start right away.

Returning students can log in via Customer Login or Learn → Your Course Library in the site’s top menu.

Course enrollments are generally non-refundable. That said, in the past five years, we have not received a single refund request for our courses. That’s the result of careful course creation and detailed descriptions that keep expectations and the learning experience aligned.

If you are unsure whether this is the right starting point for you, reach out to us before you enroll, and we’ll help you make the right choice.

After the purchase, if you’re not completely satisfied, reach out within 7 days and let us know what exactly went wrong.

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