Hiring a full-time retoucher — is it profitable?

Today we’re going to talk about hiring a full-time retoucher (or a half-time, or a quarter-time). Retouchers also provide this service. It’s not when you give orders to a retoucher from time to time, but when you «book» him for a month/half/quarter job. That is, you guarantee him payment for that time per month and …

Business portrait retouching

There are many important nuances in business portrait retouching, it’s very similar to portrait retouching, but still different. When I retouch business photos I pay attention to the clothes (remove large folds), the background (nothing should distract from the person), props (it can be a notebook, a folder or some branded things). Of course I …

Advertising retouching tutorial with Psd — commercial photoshop

Advertisig retouching? It’s easy! I share for you the post-production workflow of advertising retouching the Saucony sneaker. It’s not difficult image, therefore it will be useful even if you are a beginner or middle retoucher or photographer. This layered Psd-file and video will improve your skills and give you the understanding how to make high-end …

Photoshop tutorial Pastel colors

Today we gonna do a pastel colors in Photoshop. Also I’m not only show how exact do one photo in pastel colors, I also will explain the principle by which you need to process photos to make them looks as pastel tones. But at first let’s talk about what is a pastel colors? This is …

Beauty retouching with dodge&burn

This is one of my old work. I retouch this image only with dodge&burning technique. No frequency separation or something else. It’s longer, but a completely controlled process and result. Also you can see process with basically changes and d&b layer.

How to level up retouching

Let’s talk about some useful techniques to level up your photo retouching skills. Everything written below is strictly my own personal experiences.