Beginner Retoucher Bundle
Over 14 hours, from complete beginner to capable beauty retoucher.
This bundle combines 3 (three) of our courses to take you from your first beauty retouch to a capable and confident beauty retoucher.
▶︎ Created by Julia Kuzmenko McKim and Michael Woloszynowicz, professional beauty and fashion photographers, retouchers, and educators. Every lesson distills decades of combined industry experience into the refined retouching methods we use in commercial work.
Who is this bundle for?
The sequence of the courses in this bundle is designed for photographers, retouchers, and creative professionals with basic Photoshop skills who are new to beauty retouching and want to learn it properly, to a professional level.
No beauty retouching experience is required.
Commercial beauty visual standards have changed significantly in recent years. Most brands now expect real skin texture and more natural retouching results, while still asking for final images that feel elevated and refined. This type of “polished while natural” look actually requires a more advanced retouching skill level, and these courses teach each technique to its full depth, so you have the range to take your retouching as far as your client’s brief requires.
You will start with the beginner-level introduction to the key retouching tools, techniques, and workflows, from raw processing and basic cleanup through skin and color work to the finishing pass and export. Then you will go deep on skin and hair retouching – the two post-production skills that professional beauty, fashion, and portrait photography depend on.
We teach a lean-PSD approach and a non-destructive workflow, so client revisions never mean redoing your work from scratch.
Once internalized through deliberate practice, these workflows open a range of paths for your career:
- offering retouching services to paid clients along with your photography;
- entry-level (junior, due to limited experience) in-house retouching roles;
- or remote freelance retouching work from anywhere in the world.
Most of our Avenue studio retouchers took RA courses and use our methods and workflows.
🌟 Check out our students' Testimonials!
This bundle includes:
- Beauty Retouching for Beginners - over 4 hours, $127
- Professional Skin Retouching - over 7 hours, $169
- Professional Hair Retouching - over 3.5 hours, $74
Over 14 hours of video lessons, accompanied by 12+ beauty practice files photographed on large-sensor cameras by the authors; custom actions, D&B, lash and hair brushes, and other bonus materials.
Each course is packed with distilled theory, actionable lessons, and hands-on practice on professional beauty files, plus the proven methods and pro tips we use in commercial work.
Bought separately: $370, you save $181.
Ready to go further? The All-in-One Beauty Retouch bundle adds Professional Beauty Retouching, which covers the wider expertise expected of a retouching professional.
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What you will find inside this bundle:
Theory & Practice
Over 14 hours of video lessons and assignments.
We’ve distilled the most impactful information so that you can learn and apply your new retouching skills as efficiently as possible.
Practice Files
Beauty images, shot by the authors.
Each module includes practice beauty and other images, bonus materials, and practice assignments to help you quickly internalize what you are learning.
Real-World Pro Approach
Our custom Actions & Brushes.
A professional workflow perfected through a decade of commercial work by Julia Kuzmenko McKim and Michael Woloszynowicz.
Here's what our students are saying:
Ethan
Freelance Retoucher
“I bought all the courses from Retouching Academy, and they never disappointed me! I learned so much and improved my retouching skills from these courses over the last 2 years, and now I have my own clients, and I also work with some well-known brands such as ELLE, Gucci, LV, L'Officiel, etc."
Valentina Duran
Freelance Retoucher
“Thanks to RA courses and RA panels, I was able to take my retouching skills to a new level and understand how to make it a business that prospers. I learned new approaches to the techniques that I already knew, and my workflow became much faster and leaner."
Margarita Ptitsyna
Freelance Retoucher, Avenue Studio
“Retouching Academy courses are really the best! They teach you the professional way of retouching: how to make your pictures look perfect, but still natural; how to speed up your workflow, and how to organize your PSD files so you will always be able to make any corrections at any stage of your retouching process."
