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 Stop Doing These 5 Things If You Want Better Retouching Results
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Stop Doing These 5 Things If You Want Better Retouching Results

We all start from scratch, whether it’s a hobby, craft, or profession. The key to improvement is constant learning, deliberate practice, and refining our workflows and habits to continue becoming [...]

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 3 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Beauty Shoot In-Camera Results
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3 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Beauty Shoot In-Camera Results

Long gone the days when I could afford the “fix it later in Photoshop” attitude in my shoots. I welcomed retouching challenges when I was just starting out and learning the magic of [...]

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 3 Retouching PITAs to Prevent in Pre-Capture
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3 Retouching PITAs to Prevent in Pre-Capture

A great advantage of being the shooter of the images you retouch is that you can prevent a lot of mistakes while shooting to avoid paying for them with your time and energy in post-production. [...]

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Categories
  • Business & Career
  • Makeup & Creative Team
  • Retouching Skills
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Products
  • All-in-One Beauty Retouch All-in-One Beauty Retouch $373.00 Original price was: $373.00.$287.00Current price is: $287.00.
  • Beauty Retouching for Beginners Beauty Retouching for Beginners $87.00
  • Beauty Retouch v5 Beauty Retouch v5 $89.00
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Hi, I’m Julia Kuzmenko McKim, a commercial beauty photographer and retoucher, and the founder of Retouching Academy. For over a decade, I’ve shot and retouched campaigns and e-commerce imagery for brands like Urban Decay, Hourglass Cosmetics, Pat McGrath Labs, Lululemon, and many others.

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