To help you spend less time on tedious tasks and deliver finished projects faster during this busy season, we’ve prepared something special this month: meet our new plugin for automatic video color grading, precise mole control and bindi protection in Apex, and gender-specific settings in Arams for smart retouching, along with fresh educational content. And to keep you inspired and challenge your skills, we’ve put together a selection of international photography contests that we proudly sponsor.
New Release: Retouch4me Lab Video — Cinematic Color and Film Texture in Just a Few Clicks
We are thrilled to introduce Lab Video, a new AI-powered plugin for automatic video color grading and film emulation in OFX-compatible editors (DaVinci Resolve 18+).
What Lab Video can do:
AI Color Grading: The AI analyzes every frame and harmonizes colors, eliminating the need to build complex grading nodes manually.
Film Emulation: Adds soft, organic film grain and subtle optical imperfections, removing the “sterile” look of digital footage.
OFX Host Integration: Processing happens directly inside your editing software, with no need to export to third-party programs.
Flexible Results: Use it as a final stylistic touch or as a solid foundation for further creative grading.
Perpetual license, local processing, and free updates — deliver weddings, music videos, commercial shoots, and YouTube content with a deep, atmospheric “film look” faster than ever before.
Retouch4me Apex v1.211 Update: Precise Mole Control and Bindi Protection
In the new version of Apex, we’ve expanded the capabilities of the Heal tool by adding:
Moles Slider: You now have full control over the visibility of moles detected by the AI. Smooth adjustment allows you to keep them entirely, subtly soften them, or remove them completely.
Keep Bindi Toggle: Protects traditional forehead jewelry (bindis) from being automatically removed by the Heal tool. When brush mode is enabled, the protected area is highlighted on the mask.
Arams v1.10.0 Update: Gender-Specific Settings and Faster Performance
A major update for our culling and batch auto-processing software:
Separate Retouching for Men and Women: Arams automatically detects faces in photos and applies different presets. You can now maintain soft skin retouching for female portraits and a more textured, natural look for male portraits within the same project.
Working with Culling Results: You can now view only the selected shots, or enable a mixed view mode with visual separation.
Auto PC Shutdown: Turn on this feature, queue up a large shoot for export before bed, and Arams will finish processing and shut down your computer automatically.
Natural File Sorting: Files with standard numbering (e.g., IMG_1, IMG_2, IMG_10) are now sorted in strict numerical order.
Updated OFX Video Retouching Tools
We’ve released updates for our line of video plugins: DnB OFX, 3D LUT Creator OFX, and Heal OFX. Stability and frame processing speed have been significantly improved.
Educational Content of the Month
New video tutorials on our YouTube channel will help you master the nuances of automation and color grading:
A presentation of a Photoshop plugin that lets you create selection masks using text prompts.
How to work with image batches, copy and paste settings, use presets, and build a non-destructive editing workflow in Arams.
Practical application of the Heal, Dodge & Burn, Mattifier, Portrait Volumes, Fabric, and Clean Backdrop plugins.
Combining the Retouch4me panel with layers, the Liquify tool, and Camera Raw.
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Press Feature: Arams in Boudoir Inspiration Magazine
A detailed article has been published in a leading boudoir photography media outlet on how to cut the tedious retouching of boudoir sessions from 3–5 hours down to just minutes using 5 simple steps in Retouch4me Arams.
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International Photography Contests: Prizes from Retouch4me
Enter our partners’ international contests and win plugin licenses and cloud credits:
“Travel” — Deadline: August 14 | “Portrait” — Deadline: September 11
Prizes: Color Match plugin and skin retouching plugins.
The Game Of Light – Master The Glow Photo Contest — Deadline: August 28
Prizes: Plugins and cloud retouching credits.
Portrait Photography Competition — Deadline: August 7 | Landscape Photography Competition — Deadline: September 7
Prizes: Retouch4me plugins.
Vincent van Gogh Photo Award 2027 ‘Spirit of Light’
Deadline: September 30 (early submissions)
Prizes: Skin retouching plugins in both the main and student categories.
Monte Carlo Photo Contest 2026
Categories: Glamour & Beauty, World in Focus, Landscape, Free Theme — Deadline: October 4
Prizes: 2 plugins for winners and runners-up + 1,000 cloud retouches.
Thank you for staying with us! We wish you smooth shoots and fast editing.
Created by photographers, for photographers.
The Retouch4me Team