Our courses are created for photographers, retouchers, and anyone interested in mastering professional retouching techniques, starting at any skill level.

Each course description specifies the recommended experience & skill level: RA Courses & Bundles.

♦️ Beginner-level Courses & Bundles – for those who are new to beauty and portrait retouching, these courses provide a strong foundation in key retouching techniques.

♦️ Intermediate to Advanced Courses & Bundles – created for freelancers, photographers, and retouchers who are interested in advancing their skills, and expanding their freelance career options to work with top-echelon commercial clients in the beauty, wellness, and lifestyle industries.

The in-depth course lessons help our students progress quickly and immediately implement the new practical knowledge in their work.

The Beauty Retouch panel is a Photoshop plugin created for photographers and retouchers who aim to minimize their turnaround time while delivering professional retouching results.

It simplifies and speeds up all phases of your beauty and portrait retouching workflow, especially skin retouching (the “New Skin” button), color corrections, finishing touches, and image export with proper settings.

💥 New Beauty Retouch Version 5 is here! It features AI-powered tools and scripts for faster pro-level retouching, which cannot be achieved with general retouching AI apps and platforms.

You can also add 6 (six) of your own custom actions and run them right from the panel’s interface.

Our detailed video tutorials will help you get the most out of this panel and save a lot of time in the long run.

💌 Keep an eye out for our email with instructions and tutorials delivered to your mailbox right after the purchase.

🎁 Compare this panel with the MUA Retouch here.

While the Beauty Retouch panel focuses on the key stages of the general retouching workflow, the MUA Retouch panel is created specifically for professional beauty and makeup retouching.

Its functionality is based on the effects of real makeup and color correctors, making it easier to use for all beauty industry professionals, including makeup artists who photograph and retouch their own work.

Each panel can be used independently, as they both contain essential retouching technique scripts. However, by adding the MUA Retouch panel to your Beauty Retouch, you significantly supercharge your beauty retouching workflow.

🎁 The panel comes with custom digital makeup palettes, lashes & brow brushes, detailed video tutorials, and a FREE Photoshop Essentials for Beauty Retouching course for beginners.

👉 Check out the benefits of using both panels here.

Absolutely! Our initial idea was to make the MUA Retouch panel a perfect complement to the Beauty Retouch panel for beauty photographers and retouchers. And we designed it to be easy to use by all beauty industry professionals who work in Photoshop.

While the Beauty Retouch panel focuses on the key stages of the general retouching workflow, the MUA Retouch panel adds a range of incredibly useful scripts specifically for makeup and beauty retouching.

Each panel can be used independently, as they both contain essential retouching technique scripts. However, by adding the MUA Retouch panel to your Beauty Retouch, you supercharge your beauty retouching workflow.

🎁 Check out what you can do with both panels at your service here.

Immediately after you purchase any of our courses or bundles, you receive an email with login details and instructions, so you can start learning immediately.

If you have previously purchased our courses, you can find login links on this page: Customer Login, or log in via the top bar menu on this website: Learn > Your Course Library.

Once you enroll in any of our current courses, you will have lifetime access to the course materials, including any future updates or added content.

Our courses are self-paced, allowing you to learn at your own speed. You can revisit lessons anytime and complete the proposed assignments at your convenience.

The courses are hosted on a streaming platform, and you can watch them on your desktop computer, laptop, and mobile devices.

📲 Continue learning anywhere via Kajabi app on your mobile devices.

Yes! All our courses come with downloadable bonus materials, such as practice image files, custom actions, and brushes.

Typically, you will find them at the beginning of each course on the Additional Materials & Downloads or Welcome to the Course pages.

For our Beginner courses and bundles prior experience is not required, but familiarity with Photoshop is helpful. These courses include introductions to essential Photoshop tools and key retouching techniques to make it easy for beginners to follow along.

♦️ If you are completely new to Photoshop, we recommend starting with our Photoshop Essentials for Beauty Retouching course to build a solid foundation before diving into retouching.

Our Intermediate to Advanced courses and bundles assume you already have some experience with Photoshop and basic retouching techniques.

While they do touch on the fundamentals, they focus more on advanced methods and do not cover the basics in-depth.

We are incredibly proud to share that in the past five years, we have not received a single refund request for our courses.

That is not accidental – it is the result of meticulous planning and creation of the courses, and the detailed course descriptions that ensure that our students’ expectations and learning experiences are 100% aligned.

With that being said, if you’re not completely satisfied, please reach out to us within 14 days of your course purchase.

Yes, our panels are Photoshop plugins, compatible with Photoshop® 2021 (v22.0) or later, Win & Mac OS, incl. M-chip Apple computers.
🧨 Important! The AI-powered features on the new Beauty Retouch v5 Panel (released May 2025) require Photoshop® 2024 (v25.3) or later

🎓 If you are completely new to Photoshop, check out our Photoshop Essentials for Beauty Retouching course.

If you are completely new to Photoshop, consider taking our Photoshop Essentials for Beauty Retouching course first (it also comes FREE with both RA Panels via the user Member Account).

It will introduce you to the Photoshop tools and interface, and retouching essentials, help you set up your custom workspace, and provide convenient keyboard shortcuts for efficient retouching.

Our detailed free retouching panels video tutorials will teach you to use the panels to properly retouch, finalize, and export edited photos for your website and social media.

You may install and use each panel on up to 2 (two) computers simultaneously, which can be laptops and/or desktop computers, either or both Mac OS or Windows (see Software Product License).

You can also install and use your panel on other computers, but no more than 2 panels can be used at the same time. You can simply reset your License Activations in Photoshop via your Member Account on the RA Lab website, where the panels are hosted > Reset License Activations.

Please contact our support team if you’d like to purchase additional licenses to use your panel on more computers at the same time.

Included in Your Purchase:

▸ One license (up to 2 computers), Win & Mac OS;

▸ First year (or month) of Maintenance & Support subscription;

▸ Dedicated Tech & Administrative Support;

▸ Free access to the installation files for new Photoshop versions with an active Support & Maintenance subscription;

▸ Beauty Retouch | Additional Features: D&B Brushes, Hair Highlights (small & large);

▸ MUA Retouch | Additional Features: dynamic Brow & Lash Brushes (long & short);

▸ FREE exclusive Photoshop Essentials for Beauty Retouching (self-paced);

▸ Beauty Retouch | FREE Beauty Retouch Panel Training (self-paced);

▸ FREE access to Video Tutorials and bonus materials via your Member Account;

▸ Exclusive discounts for RA Retouching Courses.

📦 Your Instant Digital Download Includes:

▸ Installation .CCX file (Adobe Creative Cloud), for Win and Mac OS;

▸ Quick Start Guide PDF;

▸ Additional Features installer (.jsx);

▸ MUA Retouch | Additional Features: dynamic Brow & Lash Brushes (long & short);

▸ Beauty Retouch | Additional Features: D&B Brushes, Hair Highlights (small & large);

▸ Additional Features: Custom tool Presets for better retouching.

Please refer to our FAQ page for instant answers or contact our Support Team, we are always here to help!

The subscription model is an industry standard and allows us to keep our Support and Development teams always ready to help you, continue updating the panels, and fix any software issues caused by regular Photoshop updates in a timely manner.

You will quickly realize that the benefits you get out of these panels year-round are well worth the $39.99 annual investment (or $4.99 monthly), which breaks down to just $0.10 a day.

Thousands of creative professionals worldwide have been using our panels for a decade and they love them!

How do we know?

They’ve proudly been sharing their retouching work with us on @retouchingpanels for years, leaving kind testimonials, and telling us directly in their emails when they connect with our team.

In fact, over 90% of the legacy RA Panel users have upgraded to the UXP subscription-based versions to be able to continue working with their favorite tools.

We are confident that once you watch our video tutorials and learn how to use the panels (they’re quite simple and intuitive), you’ll love them too!

Plus, we offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, making it risk-free to try. If you’re not completely satisfied, just reach out within 30 days of your purchase, and we’ll make it right!

🛠️ See our general Terms & Conditions.

While our courses are self-paced, we encourage you to leave your comments under the course lessons, so our team members can reply and help you with any questions you may have along the way.

Some of our courses will offer access to a skill-relevant private community where you can ask questions, offer suggestions for new lessons, and receive feedback from instructors and peers.

Please refer to our FAQ page for instant answers or contact our Support Team, we are always here to help!

With an active Support & Maintenance subscription, you will have access to the updated installation files free of charge via your Member Account on the RA Lab website, where the panels are hosted.

We announce when our panels are updated via our newsletter, on our blog, and on our social media: @retouchingacademy and @retouchingpanels.