Retouching real estate and interiors is a very important part of interior photography. How good your real estate photos look depends on the conditions under which you can rent it or sell it. For interior designers and architects it is also important to get the color and texture right. Retouching of real estate and …

There are many important nuances in business portrait and headshot retouching, it’s very similar to portrait retouching, but still different. What does business portrait and headshot retouching include? Removing skin imperfections Reduce redness of skin Skin smoothing with texture saving Clothing retouching Background cleanup What is portrait and headshot retouching? When I retouch business photos …

Basic portrait retouching services can help you achieve the natural clean look for your photos. What does basic retouching include? Color and lighting correction Remove imperfections of skin A bit clothing and background cleaning Liquify and sharp if needed Stray hairs removal What is basic photo retouching? It’s when small changes are made photo more …

Let’s talk about AI-art The Midjourney and Stable Diffusion neural networks are very popular right now. The first creates beauty very simply, but is limited in functionality, the second is much more flexible, but in some ways similar to programming. In addition to prompt (query) you need to specify a lot of parameters, choose a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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