The Business of Professional Photo Retouching with Lisa Carney, Simon Peter Raible

This was great! A lot of very helpful information to start your career. I liked that they had two viewpoints so we could see the different sides to the business.

Watching Simon and Lisa together was fantastic. Lots of energy and great skills. Awesome course.

I cannot suggest this class enough to people who love Photoshop and have no idea how to make it a career or a big part of their life. I myself have a photography degree and have spent the last 3 years trying to figure out how I can make Photoshop my life. Now I have the tools and ideas to grow my biggest skill set.

Lisa is has what my mom used to call, "the gift of gab" - it is the way she explains things that gets my attention and holds it. She was totally fun to listen to and learn. I have gone back and watched many of her episodes because she packs a lot of information in but also I love to hear her quirky phrases. Very much enjoyed this class.

I'm a photographer who wants to be as good at Photoshop as possible. In my field few retouchers get hired, so it's all on me. Plus my creative vision cannot be accomplished by photography alone. Not to mention that in the field, as a photographer I can't always be perfect. Photoshop to the rescue. This is possibly THE best class I've purchased on Creative Live, and they've all been good. Great insight, entertaining, well taught Lisa and Simon were awesome. Bought more LC tutorials based on this course.

Very interresting and practical stuff. Lisa is speakink so well! thank you Lisa! love all the classes of Lisa!

It’s a 2fer people! (Two for the price of one.) As if Lisa Carney wasn’t enough, she brought the amazing Simon Peter Raible. This is no small caveat! Not only are they leaders in their field individually, they are sharing two very different paths to success, methods, personalities, and priorities. This is a nitty-gritty look into a business that many of us know surprisingly little about. This is the course you could never get at art or business school. It’s like being able to pull up a chair next to the greats and have them guide you. I was able to be an audience member and I can honestly say that it marked a shift in how I will shoot and my entire process of editing. This is not a course about retouching but rather how to THINK like a retoucher. As a photographer, this has changed my processes AND opened up my mind to another form of income. Every single tip just made a ca-ching sound in my head. You can’t know what you don’t know. Really, just hit the blue button.

Loved listening to these two. I'm not even in their projected market for this video. There are just great personalities with credited info delivered in a personable way. They went full out as if they were telling their best friend how to prosper in this catagory.

This course just opened my world. I started ( back in the Jurassic era) as an illustrator/drafter ( pen and ink), then CAD programmer, then GIS analyst with photoshop just coming onto the scene then...got pregnant and unplugged focusing on parenting and my inner artist. I was gifted an IPad 6 years ago in the mist of my Taxi Mom years. My favorite ‘hobby’ became manipulating images and an addiction to Adobe apps. Now, In my new empty nest status, I have been trying to figure out my next direction in life....and CreativeLive has been a wonderful resource to explore different creative opportunities, feeling somewhere between photography and graphic design, I wanted to ‘paint’ photos with my tool of choice the tablet, not the camera. ...but it wasn’t until this course that I clicked with an Aha! I don’t have to become an photographer? I could get paid to retouch? Other people’s photos?.....and, I have a work history skill set that backs it up! Thank you so much for this course! Loved the instructors and how they shared their experiences and knowledge. You two have just provided a wonderful map and whole new path to explore and inspired a much needed creative spark to get back to work❤️. Thank You!

Lisa and Simon are an awesome team with great information about how they do their jobs in the retouching industry and how to avoid many pitfalls they've come across over their careers. It was especially helpful hearing from two instructors with different personalities and approaches to their work. As usual in her classes, Lisa shared information I haven't seen elsewhere, and the checklists in the bonus materials could save jobs.

This class was so informative! I've learned so much from Lisa during my career as a retoucher and this class did not disappoint! Very excited whenever I hear Lisa is teaching a class.

Lisa knocked it out of the ball park again! Amazing work Lisa and Simon! I just can't find the many words that express how much I gain with each and every course she teaches. Once again, a wealth of information that was given in a down to earth manner. I absolutely love her teaching style! Amazing course Lisa and Simon, awesome job!

I love all of Lisa Carney’s classes (... I think I pretty much purchased them all at this point!). It is rare to find this course level of photo retouching class, taught in such a straight forward, genuine and fun manner. Very VERY helpful to someone such as myself who works as a solo retoucher M-F at a post production facility. I feel like I never know enough, there are so many different ways to do things and it is so great to hear from a master retoucher, such as herself! Ever thankful for her lessons! ;)

Lisa and Simon are industry elite retouchers, and it's a bonus that they have the gift of teaching. They share everything they've learned in business in their combined 50 years of experience. The bonus material alone is a treasure trove, there is no other class out there like this!

It is the tidbits of years of experience that are worth their weight in gold. Lisa and Simon play off of each other nicely and it is a double benefit of knowledge in one course. Kudos to Creative Live for bringing Lisa back and for scheduling this course that puts them together as a dynamic duo. I have some of Lisa's Creative Live courses and they are invaluable.

All past an current technical knowledge in the World means nothing until tested on the field thru years of experience. Lisa and Simon give us that, years of treasured real-world experiences to go along our technical preparation in order to appreciate, to grow and to become more efficient and marketable within the industry. This is one priceless class. One of the best in my 17 years of working experience; and one of the best CreativeLive classes.

I am loving this class so much. I thought I was ready to start retouching as a career and they have shown me how much I still have to learn. As a photographer, I am also learning about so many more things to think about in my studio work. Solid business and practical advise that will carry to almost any industry. My brain hurts (in a good way) from how many new things I've learned.

This is real life. Love the back stories! Lisa and Simon share their actual experience with humour and oodles of anecdotes of life and business as world class retouchers.

It's one thing to be talented. Not everyone who is talented can convey to others what they do, how they do it or why they do what they do in a coherent, clear and engaging way. Lisa & Simon are two unique individuals who can do and can teach. They convey facts but they liven up the facts with easy to relate to anecdotes. As a duo teaching team their respective energies and insights play well off each other. They're very down-to-earth about sharing pitfalls and gotchas to be aware of their biz as well as the positive approaches that will help you be more successful. Based on what I've seen the first day (and based on past retouching classes by Lisa I've purchased from CL) you'll more than get your money's worth if making it in the retouching/photography world is important to you and your livelihood!

Perfect for those who want to step up their game in being a photo assistant. If you're a Star Wars Baby who came out of the womb with a mouse in your hand, this will be a no-brainer for you. This approach showing two different styles of working helps give perspective to what IS commonly essential in becoming a professional imager. Looking forward to tomorrow's session!

Simon and Lisa are awesome! Very informative, easy to understand and fun to listen to! Definitely a Great Team and Great Course!

great knowledge from this two great and veterans professionals