Video Tutorials
What Happens When You Retouch a Portrait With Only the Brush Tool (Aaron Nace's Challenge, Broken Down)
I’ve spent fifteen years watching junior retouchers freeze up the moment they open a portrait file. They scroll through the tool panel, reach for the Healing Brush, then the Clone Stamp, then some plugin, and before long they’ve got eight tools running and no clear mental model of what they’re actually doing to the image. The irony is that most of the fundamental operations in portrait retouching — blemish removal, dodging, burning, color correction — can be reduced to one core skill: painting with intention.