How To Set Up Your Wacom Tablet For Efficient Retouching

Tablet and Pen are a retoucher’s most used physical tools, bridging the connection from our world into the bits and digits. Spending so many hours handling the pen and scratching tablet surfaces makes us think twice about how we set things up to reduce fatigue and at the same time increase efficiency. After all, time is money and our health is our most precious asset.

This guide will help you set up your Wacom Tablet to achieve both of these important key features. You might have developed other habits by now but consider giving these a try. Expect to get used to any structural change over one or two weeks of time for your muscle memory to be re-trained

LTR!036 – Natalia Fadejeva Retoucher – Part II

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Natalia Fadejeva who is retouching for magazines like Vogue, ELLE and known Makeup Brands like Anastasia Beverly Hills talks about her journey of becoming a retoucher, the struggles of studying arts at university, and gives valuable insights into real-world retouching scenarios.

LTR!034 – Greg Benz the creator of Lumenzia

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Greg Benz is a photographer and software engineer who created the Photoshop add-on panel LUMENZIA. The panel is providing a unique way for photographers to select and adjust different tonalities within images.

LTR!033 – Joseph Parry Retoucher

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Retouching is only done by boring people hiding behind their screens? Wrong! Join in into todays hilarious conversation with Joseph Parry who is delighted to bring more fun to retouching, and, at the same time educates us on pitfalls on the path of becoming a more than solid retoucher. Joseph Parry is a freelance Fashion and Commercial retoucher based in the UK. He’s worked for the likes of Superdry, Ted Baker, Fairfax & Favour, Danskin, Scholl, Gaviscon, Canon Deutschland and more. He likes music, video games, and the odd pint at the local pub.

LTR!032 – Joseph Parry Retoucher

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Retouching is only done by boring people hiding behind their screens? Wrong! Join in into todays hilarious conversation with Joseph Parry who is delighted to bring more fun to retouching, and, at the same time educates us on pitfalls on the path of becoming a more than solid retoucher. Joseph Parry is a freelance Fashion and Commercial retoucher based in the UK. He’s worked for the likes of Superdry, Ted Baker, Fairfax & Favour, Danskin, Scholl, Gaviscon, Canon Deutschland and more. He likes music, video games, and the odd pint at the local pub.

LTR!030 – Daniel Meadows Retoucher

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Professional retoucher Daniel Meadows shares insights in professional retouching, how he learned retouching with the help of browsing forums, and how to work with advertising agencies.

How To Retouch Eyelashes Like A Pro | Retouching Eyelashes Tutorial

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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.

LTR!025 – Gerry Kingsley

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

LTR!024 – How To Run A Successful Retouching Business

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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.

LTR!022 – Interview with Jan Wischermann – Part 2

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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.

LTR!021 – Jan Wischermann Retouching

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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.

LTR!020 – Virginia Y. – Part II

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LET’S TALK RETOUCHING Podcast with our Guest Virginia Y. We are talking about retouching, work-life balance and her best tips for creatives who are eager to get into this industry.

LTR!019 – Virginia Y & TFPP

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We are kicking off the New Year with an interesting interview with Verginiya Yancheva who is also the host of the Fashion Photography Podcast. Hearing about Verginiya and how she got started with photography and retouching was an amazing story to follow!

Why Is Hair Retouching Such A Tedious Process?

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Hair retouching is considered one of the hardest tasks to master for a retoucher. While the tools required are very basic, execution of retouching tasks with those tools, mainly clone tool and brush tool, need a lot of practice and eye-hand coordination.

Interview For The Fashion Photography Podcast On Retouching

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After Working as a retoucher for quite some time now, I was given the opportunity to talk about getting into retouching, the craft and the future of retouching in an interview for The Fashion Photography Podcast. The 3 part series contains tons of information about the retouching industry and running a business.

3 Reasons Why Color Corrections and Color Management Are Hard

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Color corrections and color theory are very important parts of today’s photography. It can be quite a challenging and demanding task, but why? We will explore 3 Reasons why humans struggle with judging and correcting color related issues and what this means in terms of color management.

Learn From A High End Retoucher – Retouching Critique For Martin Beck

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Welcome to our first retouching critique. The intention of us doing these critiques is to help others grow as retouchers and to advance their skills. While giving feedback on a person by person basis is very time-consuming we will publish critiques for others to also benefit from the content.