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Most today’s successful retouchers have learned how to build and maintain their retouching business through trial and error. As time passes, I am working more as a freelancer, and even though the safety net from the day job has crumbled, I still manage to keep on going.

Business Mindset

It is tempting to think that your mailbox will overflow with client emails offering piles of cash and thrilling creative projects from day one, because you’re a great retoucher. The truth is, though, that in the first days, weeks, months, and even years, it can be quite a struggle to get commissioned jobs regularly. And not all of them will be as exciting as creative collaborations you might have been working on when you fell in love with retouching.

You need to have the right mindset when you start out as a freelance retoucher. You might be a digital artist with multiple degrees and stellar retouching skill, but if you can’t get yourself noticed and close deals with your potential clients, none of that will do you any good.

The first thing to understand is that you must have the mindset of a determined entrepreneur and come equipped with some essential business skills. Great customer service, brilliant marketing strategies, financial acuity, etc. are just as important as your artistic skills and expertise.

Business is business. To start and maintain a profitable business, you need to create relationships with your potential and current clients to get your first assignments and to continue having more work coming in.

Know what makes you different from thousands of job-hungry retouchers out there? Ask yourself: What is my thing and what are my strongest skills? What sets me apart from other candidates my clients might have? Who would benefit most from my services? Who are my target clients?

You must find answers to these questions before you launch your business and depend on its profits, so you know where to search for your clients and who those clients are.

Creating Relationships

In the era of the Internet and social media, finding potential clients and creating new contacts is relatively easy. However, it isn’t enough that you ask a photographer or advertising agency’s art director to be your friend on Facebook or LinkedIn; you need to give them a good reason to consider giving you a chance to work with them, and become top-of-mind retoucher for them. Tell them why they would benefit from your services, not how you need work, so you can pay your rent.

It is your executive decision to offer free tests or not, but sometimes it can actually pay big. Your potential client has nothing to lose letting you test for them for free, so they will be more open to giving you the opportunity to show them what you can do. Clarify with them beforehand, whether or not you can use the retouched image in your portfolio afterwards, so that even if a paid job does not come from this client in the future – you at least have a new non-stock image to add to your retouching portfolio.

After you have created a relationship with your clients, remember that all relationships require nurturing. Understand your best clients’ needs, their problems, and demonstrate an ability to help solve them. Show them what you have been working on from time to time even if you have not heard from them in a while.

Remember, the key is to position yourself as a trusted and reliable resource and stay top of mind.




Marketing Yourself

Although networking is quite easy in today’s day and age, keep in mind two things:

Your clients and social media contacts are inundated with information, images, news, messages, emails, and etc., so don’t assume they read or even see everything you post;

Your competitors use social media as well, so don’t expect to differentiate your business through social media alone.

Marketing yourself and your services with a personal touch is critically important so that people start to recognize you, your work, and your brand.

I learned the hard way that if you simply regularly upload your new work to your website and don’t do anything else, your time and effort will be wasted. Simply having a website won’t do anything to help you grow your business.

Give your audience many opportunities and avenues to notice you and want to see what you are up to. Right timing,  correct choice of platform and content that you post can help you turn your marketing efforts into actual jobs. Successful marketing is so important for a freelancer that you should study it as intensely as you work on your artistic skills.

Although quality wins over quantity every time, freelance success lies in delivering both. Your work, whether it is a retouched image, a blog post, or an ad, needs to be of excellent quality, but for more exposure, you’ll need to generate quantity and be consistently visible as well. Create an efficient marketing plan and stick with it!

Believing in Yourself

Working as a freelancer can be a bumpy road. You need to be a professional retoucher, excellent ma

Millenium Panel Build 12.2016 for Adobe Photoshop (Windows / Mac)

Millenium Panel is a Photoshop Panel with retouching, brushing, painting, high dynamic range, contrast sharpness, color saturation features. Within the Photoshop craft, the separation of frequencies in images can be utilized for retouching. While there are a number of ways to implement the Frequency Separation technique. Typically, we break down the information data in our images into high and low frequencies.

Blending mode-Linear Light presupposes the doubling of the contrast, to compensate it we reduce Fill to 50.

There’s a number of ways how to do that:
– This can be achieved using Curves if you raise the black point to position (0; 64) and lower white point to position (255; 192). The central point should be fixed at (128, 128).
– You can decrease contrast at Brightness/Contrast with Contrast setup at -50 and activated key Use Legacy.
– Curves or Brightness/Contrast can be used on the tonal map itself (Image-Edit-Curves). What you can also do is use adjustment layer by clipping it to the tonal map (use Clip to Layer).

Separation into two frequency bands. Radius selection:
– The radius of High Pass is easier to pick up gradually decreasing it until you lost unnecessary volumes. In other words, we need to get texture surfaces on High Frequencies Layer with the High Pass filter and delete this texture from Low Frequencies layer with the Gaussian Blur filter.
– For High Pass, it is better to set small radius, to fetch out small detalization.
– Gaussian Blur radius is better to adjust smoothly. Keep increasing it until the unnecessary details are no more visible.
– For Gaussian Blur it is better to set the big radius to get rid of small detalization as much as possible and at the same time keep the information only about brightness and color distribution.
– If the shape is most important then it is better to adjust radius according to the content of LF (blurred picture)
– If the surface texture is most important then it is better to adjust radius according to the content of HF.

For retouching on High Frequencies Layer, we can use the tools:
– Clone Stamp Tool (S)
– Healing Brush Tool (J)

Healing Brush Tool Settings:

– With such settings tools necessary to work on the High Frequencies layer. To use Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools, you set a sampling point on the area you want to copy (clone) the pixels from and paint over another area.
– To set the sampling point, select the Clone Stamp or Healing brush tool and Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS).
– You can change the sampling source for a Clone Source button by setting a different sampling point.
– To be able to revert to an initial state a retouch makes the copy of the High Frequencies layer with the use of the command Create Clipping Mask and applying the normal blending mode. Do retouching on the attached copy (Retouch High Frequencies) of the high-frequency layer (Tonal Map).

Mixer Brush
All the numbering settings should correspond to number 20.

The tool is available in Photoshop version starting from CS5 and can be found under the “Brush tool” tool family on the last position. The tool is intended to simulate the manipulations with the brush and colors in reality – with real colorants on paper. All the settings are resulting from the real physical processes.

– The work is held in the new clean layer over the layer with LF. All the layers, which are located higher, are disabled. Use the brush to the details that you want to remove and along the details that you want to keep. The brush with soft edges (hardness=0), its radius we adjust for the work with details of corresponding dimensions. The smaller the detail, the smaller should be the brush radius.
– Minimum Diameter allows you to perform gentler strokes.
– To be able to revert to an initial state a retouch makes on the copy of the Low Frequencies layer and applying normal blending mode. Change the setting of the brush to Sample: Current & Below.

Auto Retouch 2GB
– decomposes the image into 2 frequencies by Gaussian Blur filter. Use the selection tool to select the face, radius of separation is defined automatically.

Auto Retouch 3GB
– decomposes the image into 3 frequencies by Gaussian Blur filter. Use the selection tool to select the face, radius of separation is defined automatically.

Retouch 2LGB
– decomposes image into 2 frequencies by Gaussian Blur filter.

Retouch 2LSB
– decomposes image into 2 frequencies by Surface Blur filter.

Retouch 3LGB
– decomposes image into 3 frequencies by Gaussian Blur filter.

Retouch 3LSB
– decomposes image into 3 frequencies by Surface Blur filter.

Fast Retouch
– makes skin smoother and glossier. This is a frequency separation with medium frequencies removal. By painting with the white brush over the black mask you can locally add the effect.

Hair Retouch
– makes hairs smoother and glossier. By painting with the white brush over the black mask you can locally add the effect. Also, you can adjust High Pass filter of the smart layer “High Frequencies – Oil Paint Filter” by double click. It allows you adjust the degree of effect as you want: the smaller the radius High Pass filter, the greater the degree of the effect.

Low-frequency Despeckle:
– Use the stamp with soft brush and reduced opacity (10% for a beginner using a mouse, 20% for a beginner using a pad, 30% for a regular user with a pad)
– You can work on a new transparent layer with stamp settings Sample: Current & Below
– At the same time, the main view of the image can be displayed on the screen, not just the LF of the layer.
– You can also use a brush or any other tool to paint if needed.

Brush Tip Shape
– In this menu, it is essential to mark with a tick the field “Spacing” and set the size of 25%. Set this parameter to adjust the density of the brush. Keep in mind that, the less the percentage you have, the thicker brush you will have and the more overloaded will be your PC. And vice versa – the more the percentage, the less is the density and the less your computer gets overloaded.

Shape Dynamics
– Control – Pen Pressure (reinstall the pad driver if you see an exclamation mark in this field)
– Minimum Diameter – 50% this parameter should be set individually. You need to understand, that the more percentage you have, the less is the possibility to make a thin line without changing the size of the brush, but at the same time, it allows you to make strokes more smooth and stippling.

Transfer
– Control – Pen Pressure (reinstall the pad driver if you see an exclamation mark in this field)
– Pen Pressure parameter allows using of pen’s response to pressing, which facilitates the Despeckle process a lot.

Uniformity Skintone
– reduces a number of extraneous colors on the skin and makes the green color a little Burn/Dodge Layers creates two layers for Burn/Dodge.

Burn/Dodge Layers creates two layers for Burn/Dodge.
– The technical side is very simple, Dodge layer for lightening and the Burn layer for darkening.
– Use a white brush to lightning and black to darkening.
– Best to use a Flow with a small percentage of 3-10% (Opacity 100%), if you work with the mouse, you can use the Opacity setting with a small percentage 10-20% (in this case, Flow 100%)
– The basic idea of this technique: handmade lighten overly dark and darkening the too light areas to make the object smoother and regular shape. In this example: blue – lightened, red – darkened areas.

High Dynamic Range
– HDR makes highlights darker and shadows lighter works on the current raster layer. Allows increasing the dynamic range.
– Clarity increases the local contrast (medium details) in the shadows.
– Boost Details increases the amount of local contrast (medium details) in the image. It’s a helpful tool to use when editing male portrait or landscape.
– Highlights Recovery makes highlights darker.
– Shadows Recovery makes shadows lighter.
– Lights Detailed applies local contrast (medium details), make highlights more detailed and darker.
– Darks Detailed applies local contrast (medium details), makes shadows more detailed and lighter.
– Detail Extractor transforms your photos into highly detailed effect; applies a special kind of local contrast.
– Make it Glow action creates a subtle warm glow through the use of blurred layers and blending modes.

Detail Extractor specification
– Utilizes a new and unique technique to exaggerate details to create unique and stylized photos.
– Use this filter to balance light and tonality and extract details from every corner of your photo.
– HDR makes highlights darker and shadows lighter. Allows increasing the dynamic range.
– Soſten Skin makes skin smoother and glossier. Pro Contrast dynamically darkens the image.
– Clarity applies local contrast (medium details) in the shadows.
– Group Local Contrast increase micro contrast (small details) and local contrast (medium details) of the entire image.
– Group Sharp increase sharp of the entire image.
– The color applies universal color preset to the image.

Requirements: Millenium Panel has been tested and working on Photoshop CC2015+