Photo Credit: Stella Digital

I’ve been really into Fashion retouching lately, especially because I’m doing some intensive retouching lessons with Lynda.com by Chris Orwig – But let’s get back to retouching. About a month ago we reviewed Pascal Danging, the Master of retouching and owner of high end retouching studio The Box Studios, but there’s a lot of other Agencies / Studios who are doing some pretty amazing retouching work. HappyFinish is a London based agency which worked on the beautiful Diesel Camouflage and La Perla Campaigns as well as Esquire and Vogue magazines amongst others. Then there is  Stella Digital, another great New York studio with brilliantly retouched images. Here are some of the Best Retouching Studios – Browse over these incredible retouching agencies, full of beautiful Portfolios and Before/After images (especially Real-Fake).

Photo Credit: Stella Digital

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The NewYorker wrote a great article about Pascal Dangin owner of the Box Studios. The Box Studio is THE retouching studio, based in NewYork meatpacking district, The Box is working for every single fashion campaign and Magazine – In the world of photo retouching Pascal is a rock star. He is what’s referred to as a “Master Retoucher” – the best there is – and is working with such famed photographers as Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel, Patrick Demarchelier and Craig McDean amongst others…

He brings photo retouching to a higher level – almost giving images an artistic quality - and should not be confused with those who hack apart images for certain magazine covers….

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