Real-world post-production techniques, beauty retouching breakdowns, and honest workflow notes from behind the screen.
The Approach
How not to ruin the work of the photographer, makeup artist, and art director with your retouching.
Workflow
How to cut out glass, metal, and glossy surfaces without jagged pixels, plus building natural shadows for ecommerce listings.
Trends
Generative tools are great at extending canvas space and cleaning up background clutter in seconds. But in commercial work, where every brand guideline and pixel counts, AI fails hard. Without a real retoucher, the image just falls apart.
Workflow
A look inside the non-destructive layer stack that saves me hours on commercial jobs.