Casting directors and agents advise actors to "know your type", especially when shooting headshots, and selecting other marketing materials. But what does this really MEAN?
Have you ever seen the back-end of Actors Access, Casting Networks, or another online casting system? From the point of view of a Casting Director, there are pages and pages of thumbnail images—headshots, cropped into little squares about 2 inches in
Actor Headshots need to be retouched. Nuff' said. But how much retouching is enough, and what, really, should be retouched? This video walks an actor through the basic elements that need retouching in their headshot.