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High-End retoucher Susan from California talks about her way to becoming a full-time retoucher in the beauty and fashion industry.

When retouching beauty pictures, the more delicate details matter. Skin retouching is usually the main focus throughout post-production, thought of one among the foremost vital aspects of quality retouching. However, the distinction between amateur retouching and genuinely skilled work are details that typically get overlooked: hair. Whether or not it’s eyelashes, eyebrows, or facial hair, in a real beauty image, these will create all the distinction.

In this episode, we talk with Canadian epic photographer and former staff writer of retouching Academy, Gerry Kingsley on everything postproduction and retouching.

After asking other retouchers what they struggle with, the topics of marketing, sales and making a stable income were top of the list of answers. In this episode, I will talk about what it takes to run a successful retouching business.

In today’s episode, I will discuss when it is worth to work for free or for exposure and when you might be better of stepping away from these jobs to not hurt your own business.

In today’s episode, we talk shop with retoucher Jan from Germany. He tells us all his secrets, what tools he is using for retouching, his workflow, but also we learn more about his views on the industry and learning the skills of a retoucher.

Jan has been working as a freelance retoucher for many years and now has jumped into merging his business into a retouching agency. In this episode we talk about his start in retouching and how he made it into the world of commercial post-production.