Introduction
People often ask me how I ended up as a professional retoucher and how long it took me to learn how to do it. I think it’s worth telling the story if only to emphasize that it takes hard work and commitment.
I graduated with a degree in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and left for New York before the ink was dry on my diploma. After bouncing around for several years painting and working in New York, Europe, and the Caribbean, I fnally returned home to Kansas City in 1999. I was starting over from scratch. One day a friend showed me a program he had just installed on his computer—Photoshop—and my life as a noncomputer person was over. I took of six months and made it my job to get up every morning and spend eight hours ...
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