Blog
including guest authors
07/10/2021
Groundbreaking Fashion Photographers: Part 3
One of the most popular American movies of the 2000s is The Devil Wears...
22/09/2021
Groundbreaking Fashion Photographers: Part 2
To anyone in the fashion and publication industry, Diana Vreeland is a household name....
07/09/2021
Groundbreaking Fashion Photographers: Part 1
In an interview for the 2021 documentary In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye, the iconic...
22/08/2021
How to identify the Hobbyist Photographer from the Professional
Photography Reaches the Everyman The turn of the 20th century introduced a groundbreaking instrument...
07/08/2021
Minding the Gender Gap in Photography
Photography Through the Woman’s POV It’s a remarkable achievement to have something named after...
22/07/2021
A Practical Approach to Refraction Photography
When you were a kid, have you ever tried to pick up a stick...
07/07/2021
Hair science & how it affects Photography
When professionally photographing, every little thing counts. Photography equipment itself and lighting play a...
22/06/2021
Biological mechanisms that defines beauty
What is beauty according to science? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....
07/06/2021
Revisiting the Photographie Retouchée Label: Is it effective?
France is often described as the standard-bearer of the world for high-end culture and...
22/05/2021
Photography in the time of COVID-19
As 2020 reached its dramatic conclusion, and the world approached the one-year anniversary of...
07/05/2021
A deep dive into the 8 most popular magazine covers
When editors and art directors come together to create a cover for their magazine...
22/04/2021
The Art of Creating a Successful Magazine Cover
Within the magazine industry, the challenge of selling print issues has become increasingly difficult...
22/03/2021
A heart-warming Story of Nina Kramberger
It’s easy to see at the moment how the Coronavirus pandemic is not psychologically...
07/01/2021
How to be productive: Timular Timetracking
Time-tracking? If the word time tracking is used, my first association is permanent employment,...
07/12/2020
Are you a Photographer or a Retoucher? Read these books.
Every retoucher’s first steps. When I was starting out, and I was retouching my...
22/10/2020
Resharpening for printing
We know the problem – you want to send a (hopefully) cleanly edited image...
22/09/2020
The concept of sharpness
You see them again and again, totally over-sharpened images. Funny Jesus halos were created,...
22/08/2020
The little cooling helpers against heat in the office
Do you feel exhausted from the last hot summer days and would like to...
15/08/2020
How to be productive (as a retoucher)
An incredible number of books have been written on this subject: how do you become...
22/07/2020
Masking with Difference masking: Easy!
When to use this masking method There are many options for masking objects and...
07/06/2020
Capture One Pro Tips – Easy Dust Spot Finder & Removal Tools
So far, removing dust spots has been one of the first steps in post-production....
22/05/2020
Type of artist & their behaviour with the color
Since we were little, we are judged by our zodiac sign or ascendant, pigeonholed by...
22/04/2020
Aging and anatomy in retouching
Facial aging is a dynamic process involving the aging of soft tissue and bony...
07/04/2020
How to reduce file sizes – from RAW to PSD to JPEG
Large amounts of data are generated during post-production – previews, composites, layered and non-layered...
25/03/2020
New tutorial – Limited Time Offer
There is excellent news for all our German fans! In the course of the...
07/01/2020
Dodge & Burn – Different methods compared
Dodge & Burn is a subject where opinions differ. There are many ways to...
07/12/2019
Luminosity vs Brightness
Conny Wallström posted a video on YouTube about “Brightness vs. Luminosity inside of Photoshop”....
07/11/2019
The “Solar Curve” (Solarization curve)
What is the “Solar Curve”? The “Solar Curve” looks like a wave created from...
07/10/2019
Banding – the whole truth in a nutshell
Presumably, each of you knows: You retouched forever on an image, retouched the fingers...
07/09/2019
Image perception and mechanisms in advertising
“Our language culture is in a rapid transition to a visual culture” (Franke, 1997,...
22/08/2019
The ethnical responsibility in beauty retouching
I recently had an interview on the ethnical responsibility of retouching. I found the...
07/08/2019
Retouching relevance of footage
Almost every one of us is seeking a change of one kind or another....
22/07/2019
Presence analysis of the retouching label “Photographie retouchée” 2019
MK Retouching investigated different Vogue Paris on retouching lables in 2019 after the first...
07/07/2019
Advertising with and for women?
Presence of advertising Media are everywhere: They reinforce values, offer models of behavior, shape...
22/06/2019
Presence analysis of the retouching label “Photographie retouchée” 2018
MK Retouching investigated popular fashion magazines on retouching labels in research in Paris. These...
07/06/2019
Warning signs for adverts: The French retouching label “Photographie retouchée”
Background to the adoption of legal measures In France, studies have come to the...
22/05/2019
Retouching label “Photographie retouchée” – A tour through France
Presence of the retouching label in public How to deal with an avoidable retouching...
Events
postponed - cancelled - past events
23/11/2019 - 23/11/2019
