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29 Mar

Industry & Community News, Working With Colors

How Deep Learning May Change How We Color Grade

• January 3, 2019
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• color grading, deep learning, working with colors
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Have you ever wanted to recreate a look or color palette from a favorite photo? Or have you ever wondered what it was like to turn a day scene into a night scene? Most professionals will put together reference...

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01 Mar

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching, Stay Inspired

Follow the New Capture One Dedication Campaign

• January 22, 2025
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• capture one, RA inspiration
• 1 comment

In the newly released Capture One Dedication Campaign, Phase One highlights the dedication and creativity behind professional photography. Check out their new series of videos exploring various photography disciplines through the lens of leading photographers in an effort to...

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23 Jan

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Review of Lightroom Classic Versus Lightroom CC

• January 5, 2019
• Posted by Julia McKim
• adobe, adobe lightroom
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If you have been a loyal Adobe Lightroom user, you probably already know that Adobe discontinued perpetually licensed Lightroom 6 in 2017, and most likely support for it will eventually be dwindling too. If you are not planning to...

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16 Jan

Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

No, CVS is Not Banning Retouched Images

• January 5, 2019
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• beauty retouching, commercial retouching, retouching ban
• 6 comments

Yesterday, a myriad of news websites proclaimed that CVS, one of the largest drugstores in the U.S., had announced a ban on photo manipulation in makeup marketing created for in-store promotional displays, websites, social media and any other marketing...

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02 Jan

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Darktable Now Available in Windows Too

• January 22, 2025
• Posted by Julia McKim
• darktable, lightroom, raw format
• 2 comments

Beginner photographers and retouchers who are looking for free alternatives to Adobe subscription software until their hobby turns into a freelance business, may be delighted to know that Darktable, a free open-source alternative to Adobe Lightroom previously only available...

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06 Dec

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Powerful New Tools for One-Click Selections Coming Soon to Photoshop

• January 13, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• adobe photoshop, selections
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Adobe Sensei, which is Adobe’s AI machine-learning apparatus, has been the backbone for much of the powerful innovations brought to their applications. Recently, Adobe teased a new feature that removes the guesswork from masking out subjects: Select Subject. Presently, the primary...

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23 Oct

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe’s New Creative Cloud Photography Plan

• January 7, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• adobe photoshop, Adobe Updates, CC2018
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Adobe has launched a brand new version of Adobe Lightroom, along with a host of popularly requested new features for Photoshop CC 2018 and Lightroom Classic CC. With these feature-filled upgrades, Adobe has released several options for their monthly...

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07 Oct

Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

New French Law Requires Label For Retouched Images

• January 22, 2025
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• commercial retouching, retouching
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Effective October 1st, a new French law goes into effect that requires any commercial photos of models that have been digitally altered to appear thinner or thicker to bear the warning that the photo has been retouched,"photographie retouchée". Initiated by the...

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23 Aug

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

Instagram Improves the Comments Section

• January 22, 2025
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• instagram engagement, instagram marketing, social media
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Over the past few years, Instagram has become one of the main self-marketing platforms for freelancers and collectives in all creative fields, including photography and retouching. We keep a close eye on the updates and changes in its algorithms, and...

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15 Aug

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

Have an Audience Curate Your Best Photos With cinnac

• January 9, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• instagram engagement, marketing, social media
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Have you ever shared a photograph to social media that you personally adored, but found the reception from your audience to be disappointing? What about an instance where you shared an image you felt lukewarm about, only to receive...

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09 Aug

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Corel Launches PaintShop Pro 2018

• January 9, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• digital image editing, image editing, post-production
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Canadian software company, Corel, best known for CorelDRAW and Corel Painter, have a habit of successfully revamping beloved applications. WordPerfect from Novell, and even PaintShop Pro from JASC (back when I used to use Paint Shop Pro 7 in...

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06 Aug

Industry & Community News, Stay Inspired

Take a Peek Into The New Adobe’s Office in London

• January 9, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• adobe, adobe office, working space
• 1 comment

Have you ever wondered where Adobe magic is made? US multinational software giant Adobe, the creator of our very main retouching software Photoshop, has opened a new vibrant office in the UK to host its 600 employees. This colorful space...

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27 Jul

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe Flash is Officially Dead

• January 14, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• adobe, portfolio, tech news
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Earlier this week, Adobe announced something that has been in the works since the iPhone first came out: the death of Flash. While most of the web has adapted, there are still online portfolios and other websites that run...

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25 Jun

Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

Natural Trends in Fashion Retouching

• January 19, 2019
• Posted by Daniel Meadows
• fashion retouching, retouching
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Retouching, as with photography and fashion itself, has always been a slave to trends, and the driving force behind what we as industry professionals produce for our clients has always been what the consumer wants to see. These are...

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22 Jun

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Find Out How That Photo Was Edited With Pixel Peeper

• January 19, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• adobe lightroom, image editing, retouching
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Have you ever admired a photograph and wondered just how they achieved that look in post? If you have, and the photographer used Adobe Lightroom, then you’re in luck! Web developer, Piotr Chmolowski, has launched a website that lifts...

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21 Jun

Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe’s Upward Momentum and What Is Next

• January 19, 2019
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• adobe, adobe blog news, tech news
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Adobe is having a record week: beating profit estimates, launching Adobe Advertising Cloud TV, and utilizing Adobe Sensei’s sophisticated A.I. machine learning. It has been a busy week, and that can only be good news for us. On Tuesday, June...

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16 Jun

Fundamentals, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

The Hidden Treasures of Creativity in Adobe Photoshop

• January 19, 2019
• Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
• Adobe news, contest, photoshop tools
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Every experienced digital artist and retoucher knows how important your choice of brushes is for each specific purpose. With that in mind, on June 15, 2017, Adobe announced the release of a new set of digital brushes created from 360 scans of...

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06 Jun

Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News

Apple Vies For The Affection Of Power Users with iMac Pro

• December 17, 2018
• Posted by Kendra Paige
• apple, imac
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With the Mac Pro released in 2013 with few updates to follow, creative and professional Mac users were beginning to bite their nails with worry that Apple had abandoned them. At a shareholder meeting at Cupertino in February, Apple...

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30 May

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

Huge Summer Sale on Fstoppers!

• December 17, 2018
• Posted by Julia McKim
• commercial photography, fstoppers, sale
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Our friends at Fstoppers are currently running a huge summer sale for all of their tutorials. Most of those tutorials include post-production and are very valuable if you are getting into a specific type of photography, even if only as...

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29 Jan

Business & Clients, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Adobe Creative Cloud Subscriptions – The Devil is in the Details

• January 25, 2019
• Posted by Gerry Kingsley
• adobe, Creative Cloud, News
• 16 comments

We all love our Adobe products, but recently I had the misfortune of being caught by the Adobe Creative Cloud cancellation ‟penalty.” Turns out, when you sign up for any annual Adobe CC subscription that’s paid monthly, you’re actually committing...

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