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01 Dec
Industry & Community News, Successful Retouching Business

Cyber Monday: Up to 45% Off on all Courses & Retouching Panels

For this Black Friday & Cyber Monday, we’re doing something we only do once a year: Complete Mastery bundle - 45% OFF All our core retouching courses are neatly packed into one Complete Retouching Mastery bundle with over 22 hours of in-depth video lessons,...

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08 Sep
Freelance Business, Industry & Community News, Real World Practices

AI in Vogue: The Pushback

In its August 2025 issue, Vogue featured an AI-generated model in a Guess ad, prompting a wave of subscriber cancellations: Vogue’s AI-Generated Models Spark Reader Fury And Industry Panic, Forbes, July 29, 2025. The reaction from readers and the broader creative...

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28 Aug
Freelance Business, Industry & Community News

Reinventing Your Creative Career: Evolve Your Skills Without Starting Over

Concept by JENN MCINTYRE, Written BY JENN MCINTYRE & JULIA KUZMENKO MCKIM The creative market is undergoing its biggest transformation of our time. For newer professionals, it’s the first significant disruption of their careers. For seasoned pros, it echoes the early...

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01 Apr
Business & Clients, Freelance Business, Industry & Community News

What is Freelance in the Visual Industry

What is the Visual Industry? The Visual Industry is a broad field of sectors dedicated to producing visual content to communicate messages and shape experiences. Visual Arts are forms of art that are visual in nature, created to be appreciated through...

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26 Mar
Freelance Business, Industry & Community News

Adobe Stock Limits Contributors to One Account

As of March 25th, 2025, Adobe will no longer allow the creation of multiple Adobe Stock Contributor accounts without written approval. This quiet but important policy shift signals Adobe’s intent to streamline its contributor ecosystem, affecting not only photographers but...

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27 Sep
Industry & Community News, Real World Practices

Retouching Freelance Market Trends Report (Q3 2024): Key Insights from Our Survey

Written BY JULIA KUZMENKO MCKIM INTRODUCTION In polling and survey methodologies, it is well-known that after reaching a threshold sample size, the results stabilize, and the law of diminishing returns comes into play. The marginal benefit of adding more respondents becomes...

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09 Apr
Efficiency & Productivity, Industry & Community News, Real World Practices, Stay Inspired

Generative AI for Freelancer: Will You Be a Disruptor or Disrupted?

As I advance in the Applied Generative AI course by MIT, I am completely and irrevocably convinced that the freelance business in the content creation field is experiencing a monumental transformation. The type that will permanently alter its landscape. Like many...

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13 Mar
Creative Retouching, Efficiency & Productivity, Industry & Community News, Stay Inspired

Generative AI for Freelancers

The freelance world is undergoing a seismic shift propelled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Generative AI. In my latest blog post, you will find how I believe this transformative technology is reshaping the industry and can help YOU to recession-proof your freelance...

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25 Apr
Industry & Community News, Real World Practices, Stay Inspired

Guide to the Best Artist Grants and Opportunities for 2023

While retouching artists aren't usually really independent in their work and art (I guess, apart from AI creations now accessible to all, but that's a separate topic altogether), we often form partnerships based on commercial and/or artistic interests with...

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02 Sep
Beauty Retouching, Commercial Retouching, Industry & Community News

New Skin Retouching Course on Our New Streaming Platform

The Skin Retouching course is available on our new streaming platform located at learn.retouchingacademy.com, and now you can conveniently continue learning even when you are away from your desk and watch the lessons on your mobile devices via this mobile app.

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24 Apr
Beauty Retouching, Industry & Community News, Software for Retouching

Changes to The Supported Photoshop Versions for RA Panels

We care deeply about the quality of our products and choose not to jeopardize our users’ experience by offering panels that might not perform as they should due to outdated Adobe software. As a result, we will no longer offer RA Panels for Photoshop CS6 for purchase…

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13 Apr
Industry & Community News, Real World Practices

New Round! Beauty Retouching Challenge #3

Find out the results of the first two rounds here: Challenge #1 Results and Challenge #2 Results Overview with my notes and a timelapse retouching video. NEW ROUND! CHALLENGE #3 📌 RA Beauty Retouching Challenge #3 starts on April 13th, 2020; 📌...

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01 Apr
Industry & Community News, Real World Practices

New Round! Beauty Retouching Challenge #2

CHALLENGE #1 RESULTS Our first Beauty Retouching Challenge went really well and over 200 artists of all skill levels submitted their retouches to the Challenge album. The Challenge #1 winner Axelle Manfrini‎ (laretouchefrancaise.com) now has 10x voting power in the...

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20 Mar
Industry & Community News, Real World Practices

Beauty Retouching Challenge #1: Ready, Set, Go!

Let’s use this downtime as an opportunity to practice, better ourselves, learn something new and have a little fun!✎ Challenge #1 starts on March 20th, 2020; ✎ Retouched Challenge Images are to be submitted by participants directly into a designated...

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27 Jun
Business & Clients, Industry & Community News

Why You Should Not Give A Magazine Exclusive Rights To Your Images For Free

Editorials are a hot commodity when it comes to photographers and other artists looking to showcase their work to potential clients. While in the past, a photographer could expect to be compensated for their work, 2019 is a very...

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05 Jun
Hardware & Tools, Industry & Community News

Roundup of Apple WWDC Announcements for Photographers and Retouchers

This year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was an eventful one for Apple, announcing many exciting new software features and products. Notably, the pro users (or power users) got the recognition they wanted, with a refresh of the Mac Pro, as well as Apple finally releasing a new display. We’ll discuss some of these in more detail, as well as one particular new feature that may give you the drawing tablet you’ve always wanted.

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