Fashion Retouching

How to Cut Out Multiple Subjects Fast for Fashion Composites (Gap Ad Breakdown, Part 1)
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How to Cut Out Multiple Subjects Fast for Fashion Composites (Gap Ad Breakdown, Part 1)

Composite work used to be the thing I’d quietly dread on a brief. Not because the retouching itself was hard, but because my early approach was so disorganized. I’d start painting, masking, and color-matching before I’d even decided where each element was going to live in the final image. The result was hours of rework and a file full of layers named “copy of copy of final FINAL.” It wasn’t pretty.

What a Misfired Studio Light Taught Me About High Fashion Retouching
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What a Misfired Studio Light Taught Me About High Fashion Retouching

There’s a specific kind of panic that hits on set when something goes wrong and everyone looks to you for the answer. I know it well from my wedding days, and apparently so does Aaron Nace. In this PHLEARN high fashion retouching tutorial, Watch the full tutorial on YouTube — Aaron opens with the story of a shoot that started falling apart before a single keeper frame was captured. The model bumped her head, the original setup was scrapped, and what followed was a scramble into an adjacent room with a bare bulb strobe and absolutely no plan.