Created by Julia Kuzmenko McKim and Sarah Tucker, a commercial beauty photographer and retoucher in Los Angeles and a senior retoucher with over a decade of in-house experience in London. 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 who are already familiar with Adobe Photoshop and basic retouching and want to master beauty retouching at a professional level. It is especially valuable for freelancers interested in working with brands, businesses and creative agencies in beauty, wellness, and lifestyle industries.

• Solid skill base. Proper retouching methods, principles, tools, and techniques for high-quality professional beauty retouching, including close-up beauty.
• Lean-PSD, non-destructive workflow. Avoid irreversible changes and organize working files the way professionals do.
• Career potential. Once internalized through deliberate practice, these skills open a range of paths: offering retouching services to commercial clients; pursuing senior in-house retouching roles; or managing post-production workflows and interfacing with photography and retouching vendors on behalf of commercial clients. Most of our Avenue studio retouchers took RA courses and use our methods and workflows.

If you are a beginner, consider the Beginner Retoucher or All-in-One Beauty Retouch bundles instead.

This course is included in the All-in-One Beauty Retouch and Beauty Retouch bundles, both of which work out cheaper if you want more than one course.

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 usually require a proper finish in Photoshop.

A graphics tablet (Wacom or other) is recommended, but it is not required to start. Module 1 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. We’ll take it from there: these courses include introductions to the essential Photoshop tools and key techniques.

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

Lifetime. Once enrolled, the course stays in your account, on the web, and in the Kajabi app.

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, and brushes. 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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