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My Beauty Retouching Workflow: Before Retouching Even Begins

My Beauty Retouching Workflow: Before Retouching Even Begins

By Julia Kuzmenko McKim

Posted April 14, 2016

In Photography, Retouching

This is Part 1 in a series of articles dedicated to lessons I learned through my personal Beauty Photography and Retouching Journey so far, after a decade in the industry. My goal with this series is to distill the key components that fueled my rapid skill development in beauty retouching and photography, so I can apply the same framework to acquiring new skills within the visual arts to become a super efficient learner and skill acquirer overall.

If such a framework works for me, it will work for you too.

Keep an eye out for the follow-up articles, I will be linking them here for convenience.

Read the updated version of this article on my JKM Blog: Analyzing My Skill Development in Beauty Photography & Retouching

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Julia Kuzmenko McKim

Julia Kuzmenko is a Los Angeles-based commercial beauty photographer and retouching artist. Julia studied Commercial Photography at the International College of Professional Photography (Melbourne, Australia; 2008-2010) and has been specializing in Beauty photography for cosmetics companies since. She is also the founder and CEO of Retouching Academy.

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Jane May 19, 2016
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Hi Julia,

Did you ever post the follow up article for how you prep your raw files for retouching in Lightroom?
- Julia McKim May 19, 2016
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  Hi Jane,
  Not yet, but I am trying to squeeze in another post into my schedule each week, so I can cover more topics. I will soon! 🙂
re July 8, 2019
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can you help me ?
i want start o retouch,but i have’t any raw file

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