01
Jul
The new Beauty Retouch Panel v5 has got a bunch of new tools and scripts to help make your beauty and portrait retouching faster and easier.
Even if you start...
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22
May
Every photographer knows the regret of certain choices made during a shoot and the post-production "cost" of fixing styling mistakes and shortcomings.
The new tools on our Beauty Retouch...
19
May
One of the most exciting additions to the new Beauty Retouch Panel is the New Skin script - it will become your go-to button for every beauty and portrait...
10
Mar
📌 This is an outtake from our Skin Retouching course: Lesson Lesson 3.6 Fixing Dry or Chapped Lips. Find Student logins here.
Chapped, dry, or cracked lips are common issues...
28
Feb
📌 This is an outtake from our Skin Retouching course: Lesson 2.3.1 Frequency Separation, Part 1. Find Student logins here.
While the Frequency Separation technique (FS) is sometimes criticized—often for...
20
Feb
When the skin in your beauty, fashion or portrait images requires a lot of deep retouching work, sometimes you may end up with areas of skin looking too soft...
13
Jan
We all have shoots when models or clients show up with breakouts. Re-scheduling or re-shooting is usually not an option, so we must be able to correct some visible...
23
Nov
Color correction is one of the most essential aspects of beauty retouching, and the MUA Retouch Panel makes it simple, quick, and intuitive by mimicking the color correctors used...
08
Aug
I often get asked about my retouching workflow, and by the way those questions are asked I realize that some photographers and retouchers dismiss the power and potency of...
17
Jul
In the world of beauty, fashion & portrait retouching, mastering your craft is not just about learning to use Photoshop and understanding retouching techniques theory; it’s about getting your...
29
Mar
We've got some exciting news for those of you who are interested in continuous growth and professional development!
We've added a new additional image file (.PSD) for the Oily Skin...
15
Mar
As a retouching professional in the beauty industry, you have to hone certain skills to be able to make necessary color adjustments to achieve target (reference) colors provided by...
04
May
The Blot button on the MUA Retouch panel allows you to “mattify” oily skin patches quickly and easily – just like blotting sheets in your makeup kit do.
You can...
27
Oct
The Eye Drops button on the MUA Retouch panel is like virtual Visine, only better. Use it to quickly clean up the whites of the eyes, add light and...
11
Mar
Check out our new video for the Beauty Retouch panel users on how to use the Luminosity Masking buttons. Our Luminosity Masking scripts create quick selections based on the...
02
Sep
The Skin Retouching course is available on our new streaming platform located at learn.retouchingacademy.com, and now you can conveniently continue learning even when you are away from your desk and watch the lessons on your mobile devices via this mobile app.
19
Aug
It doesn't matter how well you know Photoshop and basic retouching techniques, when it comes to retouching skin and makeup, to be a successful beauty retoucher requires a whole...
26
May
While it used to be the case that a full portrait or beauty retouch was the exclusive domain of raster-based photo editors such as Adobe Photoshop or Affinity Photo, the release of Capture One 20 (13.1) has now made it possible entirely at the raw level…
20
May
Another weekly Beauty Retouching Challenge has begun! Enter the RA Beauty Retouching Challenge #6 and download the new Challenge Image…
24
Apr
We care deeply about the quality of our products and choose not to jeopardize our users’ experience by offering panels that might not perform as they should due to outdated Adobe software. As a result, we will no longer offer RA Panels for Photoshop CS6 for purchase…