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Retouching UXP Plugin for Adobe Photoshop

Professional Beauty Retouching,
Done Faster.

Retouching panels are Photoshop plugins for photographers and retouchers who want a faster retouching workflow, improved consistency of skin and tonal work, and a decluttered workspace. Built on years of beauty industry experience and a non-destructive approach. These are the tools we use in our everyday work at Avenue Studio.

Trusted by 20,100+ photographers and retouchers worldwide.

Photography & retouching by Julia Kuzmenko McKim using RA Panels

Macro Lips Golden Lips
Beauty Kens
Macro Beauty Eye
Beauty Portrait
Beauty Closeup Lexi
Beauty Cosmetic Product Macro Urban Decay Vice Lipsticks
Beauty Closeup Michelle Water Ice Cube
Beauty Closeup Danielle
Cosmetics close-up
Cosmetic Product Macro Urban Decay Vice Lipsticks Dark Red
Beauty portrait
Beauty portrait
Beauty close-up
Urban Decay lipstick beauty shot
Beauty Mame portrait
Beauty close-up
Beauty product shot
Beauty portrait, smile
Urban Decay Vice lipstick
Body swimsuit beauty
Eye shadow texture
Beauty portrait Channelle
Glossy eye macro
Beauty duo portrait
Urban Decay lipstick beauty shot
Beauty close-up
Beauty portrait, smile

Photography & retouching by Julia Kuzmenko McKim using RA Panels

Professional
Beauty Retouching Tools.

Beauty Retouching panels are Photoshop plugins created for photographers and retouchers who want a faster, professional retouching workflow, improved consistency of skin and tonal work, and a decluttered workspace.

// 01 · Flagship Panelv5.1

Beauty Retouch Panel

4.9 / 5 16,700+ users worldwide

Photoshop plugin for photographers and retouchers who want a faster retouching workflow, improved consistency of skin and tonal work, and a decluttered workspace. Built on years of industry experience and a non-destructive approach.

Photoshop® 2024+mac · WinApple silicon
// 02 · Companion Panelv2.1

MUA Retouch Panel

4.9 / 5 3,400+ users worldwide

The MUA Retouch panel is a Photoshop plugin created for campaign-level makeup retouching. Its functionality mimics the effects of real makeup and color correctors, so it makes immediate sense to creatives in beauty and fashion. Designed to be used independently or paired with Beauty Retouch.

Photoshop® 2024+mac · WinApple silicon
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The Beauty & Makeup Retouching SuperPack

Beauty Retouch and MUA Retouch together. The complete workflow for skin, color, and makeup retouching in Photoshop to take a beauty, portrait, or fashion shot from capture to client-ready, faster.

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Beauty image retouched with the RA Beauty & MUA Retouch panels
Built in real commercial post-production

“Incredibly Helpful, Even Though I Am Biased.”

Back in 2013, as I got busier with photography and retouching work for beauty and wellness brands, I gradually built and refined a set of Photoshop actions for myself to save time on repetitive, tedious tasks I was doing in every image. A Retouching Academy colleague suggested we bake them into a Photoshop panel to keep things organized, and because other artists might want them too. We did, and the rest is history.

Julia Kuzmenko McKim
Refined over a decade of commercial beauty and wellness work, and the day-to-day production at our Avenue visual production studio. These are the tools we use.
Unretouched original, studio beauty shot Retouched in Beauty Retouch, studio beauty shot
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// Retouching Academy • Since 2013

Over 52,000 students and panel users worldwide

Built on years of industry experience for serious creative professionals interested in commercial work and getting hired by beauty, wellness & lifestyle brands.

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Beauty Retouching.

We teach what we have learned the hard way in real-world commercial beauty and fashion work.

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Best valueAll-in-One Beauty Retouch bundle

All-in-One Beauty Retouch Bundle

Beginners · Skin · Hair · High-End Beauty

Four courses (21+ hours) to take you from your first beauty retouch to a retouching professional trained in industry standards that commercial clients expect today.

$569$287
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Lifetime Access · 21+ hours · 15+ practice images

Beauty Retouch Bundle

Beauty Retouch Bundle

Skin · Hair · High-End Beauty

This bundle (14+ hours) is for you if you already know basic retouching, and want to take your beauty retouching to a professional level for paid, commercial client work.

$442$237
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Lifetime Access · 14+ hours · 12+ practice images

Beginner Retoucher Bundle

Beginner Retoucher Bundle

Beginners · Skin · Hair

This bundle (14+ hours) will take you from your first beauty retouch to becoming a capable and confident beauty retoucher. Includes 11+ assignments with practice images.

$370$189
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Lifetime Access · 14+ hours · 12+ practice images

Individual courses
Beauty Retouching for Beginners course

Beauty Retouching for Beginners

Beginner Level · 4+ hrs

In-depth course with 11 assignments and practice images for photographers and retouchers interested in learning professional beauty retouching at the industry-standard level.

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Lifetime · Practice · Custom Tools

Master Dodge and Burn Technique course

Professional Hair Retouching

Intermediate · 3.5+ hrs

Even with an experienced hairstylist on set, flawless hair in the final images usually falls to the retoucher. This in-depth course will help you take the struggle out of hair retouching.

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Lifetime · Practice · Custom Tools

Best-SellerProfessional Skin Retouching course

Professional Skin Retouching

Advanced · 7+ hrs

Over 7 hours of video lessons of theory and hands-on practice breaking down common skin retouching challenges you will inevitably face in client work.

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Lifetime · Practice · Custom Tools

Professional Beauty Retouching course

Professional High-End Beauty Retouching

Advanced · Go-Pro · 5+ hrs

Full commercial-level beauty retouching workflow and the essential areas of expertise expected from a retouching professional, including proper PSD file structure, file handling, and more.

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Lifetime · Practice · Custom Tools

Loved by photographers and retouchers worldwide
“I retouch skin texture and makeup with both RA Panels. In my work, I can't do without the Beauty Retouch panel!”
Roy Lin, in-house photographer and retoucher at Sisley Paris
Roy Lin, In-house Photographer and Retoucher at Sisley Paris, the French luxury cosmetic company. Paris, France

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Beauty Retouching
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Download 20+ free Raw beauty images kindly shared by friends of Retouching Academy for your retouching practice.

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    All-in-One Beauty Retouch Bundle

    // 01 · beauty retouching bundle · beginner to advanced

    ★★★★★4.9 / 5Over 52,000 Students and Panel Users Worldwide

    This bundle combines 4 (four) of our most impactful courses to take you from your first beauty retouch to becoming a retouching professional trained in techniques, methods, file handling, and post-production workflows that commercial clients expect today.

    The sequence of the courses in this bundle is designed for photographers and retouchers with basic Photoshop skills who want to learn beauty retouching at a professional level and produce high-quality work that meets commercial client standards.

    Over 21 hours of video lessons, accompanied by 15+ beauty practice files photographed on large-sensor cameras by the authors; custom actions, D&B, lash and hair brushes, and other bonus materials, including Retouching Job Application Checklist and the Pro Retoucher’s Vocabulary.

    Original price was: $569.00 USD.Current price is: $287.00 USD. BUY NOW

    Beauty Retouch Bundle

    // 01 · beauty retouching bundle · intermediate to advanced

    ★★★★★4.9 / 5Over 52,000 Students and Panel Users Worldwide

    This bundle combines 3 (three) of our most in-depth courses teaching industry-standard skin, hair, and beauty retouching techniques and post-production workflows.

    After completing these courses and with sufficient practice, you’ll have the skills to produce retouching work that meets industry standards that commercial clients such as beauty, wellness and lifestyle brands expect today.

    Over 14 hours of video lessons, accompanied by 12+ beauty practice files photographed on large-sensor cameras by the authors; custom actions, D&B, lash and hair brushes, and other bonus materials, including Retouching Job Application Checklist and the Pro Retoucher’s Vocabulary.

    Original price was: $442.00 USD.Current price is: $237.00 USD. BUY NOW

    Beauty Retouch Panel

    Professional Beauty Retouching.
    Faster Workflow.

    The Beauty Retouch panel is a Photoshop plugin for photographers and retouchers who work with beauty, fashion, and portrait images, for both editorial and commercial purposes. Designed for creative professionals who want a faster retouching workflow, improved consistency of skin and tonal work, and a decluttered workspace.

    // concept & features:

    Beauty Retouch hosts all retoucher’s daily tools in one place. Built on and refined over the years of industry experience, designed around a non-destructive workflow.

    • Non-destructive workflow, so client revision rounds never catch you off-guard and ruin your hard work. You can also add six of your own Actions to run them right from the panel’s interface.
    • Visual Aid check layers that expose luminosity shifts and blotchiness, so you can do more precise Dodging & Burning work.
    • Proprietary Luminosity Selections set for unparalleled precision in color correction, color grading, and highlight/midtone/shadow work.
    • Final-pass & Quality Control discipline to eliminate oversight errors before anything leaves your desk.

    // Product facts:

    • Beauty Retouch v5.1
    • In professional use since 2013
    • Photoshop® 2024+ (v25.3)
    • macOS & Windows
    • Native CC UXP
    • Apple silicon (M-series)
    • Wacom-compatible
    • AI-augmented features
    • Custom Brushes
    • User’s own actions
    $89.00 USD Buy Now

    Beauty Retouching for Beginners

    // 01 · beauty retouching · beginner · novice level

    This is a hands-on, practical course for photographers and retouchers interested in learning professional beauty retouching in Adobe Photoshop at the industry-standard level.

    Over 4 hours of video lessons will teach you the methods, techniques, and non-destructive workflow used by professional retouchers: from raw processing and cleanup, through skin and color work, to the finishing pass and export (see the complete course outline below).

    Packed with 11 self-paced assignments, 6 practice images shot by the authors, and custom actions and brushes you can continue using in your work after the course.

    $87.00 USD BUY NOW

    Beginner Retoucher Bundle

    // beauty retouching bundle · beginner to intermediatE

    ★★★★★4.9 / 5Over 52,000 Students and Panel Users Worldwide

    This bundle combines 3 (three) of our courses to take you from your first beauty retouch to a capable and confident beauty retoucher.

    The sequence of the courses in this bundle is designed for photographers, retouchers, and creative professionals with basic Photoshop skills who are new to beauty retouching and want to learn it properly, to a professional level. No beauty retouching experience is required.

    Over 14 hours of video lessons, accompanied by 12+ beauty practice files photographed on large-sensor cameras by the authors; custom actions, D&B, lash and hair brushes, and other bonus materials.

    Original price was: $370.00 USD.Current price is: $189.00 USD. BUY NOW

    Master Dodge & Burn Technique

    // 01 · dodge & burn · intermediate to advanced · over 3 hours

    ★★★★★4.9 / 5Over 52,000 Students and Panel Users Worldwide

    This course is a deep dive into the principles and mechanics of one of the core techniques in professional retouching, known as Dodge and Burn (D&B).

    Achieving flawless, yet natural-looking skin is the central challenge in beauty and portrait retouching. For that, the D&B technique is used to perfect the appearance of skin without compromising its natural texture.

    Regardless of which tools you use to Dodge and Burn, this course gives you a deep understanding of the underlying principles and methods of the technique. Over 3 hours of video lessons, accompanied by practice files, custom actions, and brushes (see the full course outline below).

    $149.00 USD BUY NOW

    MUA Retouch Panel

    While our Beauty Retouch panel focuses on the key stages of the professional retouching workflow, the MUA Retouch panel is created specifically for makeup and beauty retouching. It makes color-correcting skin and enhancing makeup quick and easy.

    The MUA Retouch panel is a Photoshop plugin for high-quality beauty and makeup retouching and finishing. It is programmed to mimic the effects of real makeup and color correctors, making its functionality intuitively easy to use for creative professionals working in the Beauty & Wellness industry.

    Our video tutorials will guide you through each phase of the retouching workflow with this panel.

    Comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee because we know you will love it ♥️

    $89.00 USD Buy Now

    Professional Hair Retouching

    // 01 · hair retouching · intermediate to advanced

    ★★★★★4.9 / 5Over 52,000 Students and Panel Users Worldwide

    Even with an experienced hairstylist on set, the responsibility for flawless hair in the final images typically falls on the retoucher.

    In this course, across 26 lessons (see the full course outline below), you will work through a variety of tactics and methods that will help you take the struggle out of hair retouching, save you time, and ensure you always have the best approach for any challenging situations when dealing with hair in beauty, fashion, and portrait photography.

    Over 3.5 hours of video lessons, accompanied by beauty practice files, custom actions, and brushes.

    $74.00 USD BUY NOW

    Professional High-End Beauty Retouching

    // 01 · beauty retouching · intermediate to advanced · over 5 hours

    ★★★★★4.9 / 5Over 52,000 Students and Panel Users Worldwide

    This is an in-depth course for photographers and retouchers interested in learning 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.

    In over 5 hours of video lessons, accompanied by beauty practice files, custom actions, and brushes, you will learn the full commercial-level beauty retouching workflow as well as other essential areas of expertise expected from a retouching professional, including proper PSD file structure, file handling, business etiquette, and more (see the full course outline below).

    $199.00 USD BUY NOW

    Professional Skin Retouching

    // 01 · skin retouching · intermediate to advanced


    ★★★★★
    4.9 / 5
    Over 52,000 Students and Panel Users Worldwide

    High-quality skin retouching is the skill necessary for every genre of professional photography involving people: fashion, portraits, and especially beauty. It is a skill that makes or breaks portfolios.

    This in-depth course takes you to an advanced skin retouching level through theory and hands-on practice, along with a range of lessons breaking down common skin retouching challenges you will inevitably face in client work.

    Over 7 hours of video lessons, accompanied by beauty practice files, custom actions, and brushes.

    $169.00 USD BUY NOW