70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

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Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results.

Of course, beauty-retouching is a quite deceptive art. The masters of Photoshop create illusions which are hard to tell apart — unless you have both a genuine photo and the final result in Photoshop and can directly compare them. In fact, every day we consume perfectly retouched stars and models online and offline which just look different in the real life.

Still, it is not the reason to avoid learning advanced Photoshop techniques for beauty-retouching and study examples of how it is done in practice. The list below presents both image-tutorials as well as video-tutorials. Most examples have a before-vs.-after-comparison and you can follow the modifications with Photoshop step-by-step.

You may want to take a look at the further Photoshop tutorials selections we’ve presented earlier:

Skin

  • Beautiful Skin
    Not everyone has beautiful skin but you can make it better – at least in your photographs.

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  • Smooth skin
    How to make a skin like the ones you see in magazines like Playboy.

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  • Beauty Retouching
    Beauty retouching is one of the most demanding parts of photo manipulation. The main trick for your results to be astonishing is patience.

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  • Remove Freckles
    Reduce slight freckles naturally without using the Healing Brush. In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to subtract freckles using a layer.

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  • Perfect Skin
    How you can get rid of all the acne and pimples and blemishes and scars on your face.

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  • Skin looking smooth
    During the course of this Photoshop Lunacore shows you how to make skin look smooth.

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  • Makeup makeover
    How to remove hair in front of someone’s face, retouch skin and apply makeup using Photoshop.

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  • Dark skin – bright skin
    This tutorial shows you how to make a dark skin bright(er).

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  • A chapter of Beauty Retouching
    A free sample chapter of “Skin”, a Photoshop Retouching Book by Lee Varis about Beauty Retouching.

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Hair

Body (breasts, bum, figure, etc.)

  • Trimming weight
    Trimming weight off with the Liquify tool.

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  • Digital Nip Tuck
    Photoshop is probably the cheapest alternative to plastic surgery possible.

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  • Digital Nose Job
    Simple and easy photo editing technique to give someone a digital nose job.

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  • Spare Tires
    In this tutorial we will see how to remove love handles (or the extra fat around the waist).

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  • Smaller Nose
    This tutorial will walk you through the steps for reducing the size of a nose in a photograph using Photoshop.

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  • Bigger Bustline
    Learn to make a bustline look huge and comically big.

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Eyes, mouth and teeth

  • Enhancing Iris Color
    It is said that the eyes are windows into the soul. This tutorial details a simple yet powerful technique for altering eye color using basic Photoshop tools.

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  • Red Eye Tool
    This photoshop tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop CS2’s Red Eye tool in a non-destructive way.

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  • Whitening Teeth & Eyes
    Some methods to make natural elements white or whiter.

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  • Make eyelashes thicker
    Learn how to make eyelashes thicker.

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  • Apply Eye Make-up
    This photoshop tutorial will show you how you can add eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara to any model easily.

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  • Eyebrow Piercing
    This tutorial shows you how to add an eyebrow piercing to a photo.

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  • Photoshop dentist
    Everybody can be a good dentist – with Photoshop.

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  • Whitening Teeth
    Another way to make whiter teeth with Adjustment Layer.

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Galleries

  • Celebrities Before and After
    Shows some photos of celebrities before and after beauty retouching.

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  • Greg Apodaca
    Rolling the mouse over most of the images of this digital portfolio will display the original scan before it was retouched.

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  • Touch of Glamour
    Photo Retouching and Enhancement for Pageant, Model and Glamour Photography – Rollover effect also here.

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  • Amy Dresser
    Portfolio of a full-time retoucher and illustrator.

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  • Retouche
    Norm Nason is a senior graphic designer and fine artist.

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  • The art of retouching
    Glenn Feron was born, then found art and was born again.

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  • Digitalpablo
    Portfolio of Pablo J. Castillo.

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  • Digital Retouche
    A German professional retoucher.

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  • Artist 2 Design
    Experience retouching thousands of actors headshots over the years has taught Shawn the art of what to retouch and what not to.

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  • Digital Retouching Services
    From very basic blemish clean ups to full out magazine quality beauty skin retouching.

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  • Retouchme
    Creative high-end beauty, fashion and product retouching.

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  • Retouche Demo
    Nice flash demonstration how to retouche a photo.

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Video-Tutorials

  • A Perfect Lie In Photoshop
    Cameron Rad turn a beautiful woman into a perfect one. “I went through about 40 different makeover techniques, until i found what i thought was the best balance for this photo.” A good “flawless” skin method.

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  • Hilary Duff
    Hilary Duff makeover.

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  • Breast Enlarge
    This tutorial shows you how to enlarge a breast.

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  • Smart Filters
    Using smart filters to soften the skin of your subject gives you the ability to retouch your image while maintaining flexibility.

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  • Basic Beauty
    Learn the absolute basics of beauty retouching in Photoshop.

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  • Beauty Saloon
    Skin retouching with Photoshop.

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  • Model Beauty
    Speed revision of a model beauty.

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  • Natural to Synthetic
    Extremly makeover of a photo of Amy Lee from Evanescence.

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  • Gossip Girl
    Leighton Meester super glam.

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  • Body makeover
    Makeover to illustrate what photoshop can do.

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  • Magic
    The fast way to loosing weight.

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  • Pretty
    A little time and effort can do a lot.

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  • Extreme
    A really nice Photoshop Makeover.

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  • Pretty face
    Another Makeover.

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  • proof
    Proof that you can in fact create top beauty images with a point and shoot camera.

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  • model job
    Great digital makeup in photoshop.

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  • The Perfect Lie
    High-speed Photoshop transformation.

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Complete Workflow

  • Pure perfection
    Spin raw beauty into pure perfection. Very detailed tutorial.
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  • Beautify a Face
    This extensive Photoshop tutorial will show you how to beautify a face.

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  • Ultimate Makeup
    A series of steps to improve skin tones, modify shadow and light patterns to increase the impact, and enhance the eyes and hair to create a striking portrait.

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Artistic Retouch

  • Phoenix Hair Effect
    With some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photos with this flaming hair tutorial.

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More beauty

  • Longer Nails
    You would like a woman’s nails to be longer? Here we go…
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  • Eliminate Cellulite
    In this tutorial you can learn how to eliminate a person’s cellulite.

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  • Nail manipulation
    Manipulating nails by increasing length and changing shade.

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  • Airbrush retouching
    See what`s possible with Photoshop`s airbrush tool.

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  • Retouching for Beginners
    This tutorial shows a couple of simple techniques you can use to enhance your portraits.

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  • Photoshop Beauty
    Some ways to improve your photos with the help of using Photoshop.

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  • Tone Down Highlights
    Sometimes the only thing that keeps a good portrait from being a great portrait is a little too much shine on the skin.

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  • Looking good
    Great Techniques for Photoshop Beauty Retouching.

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  • New look
    Whatever a model looks like, we can give her a totaly new, beautiful look.

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  • Glamour Style
    Suzette Troche-Stapp is one of the most sought-after photographer/digital artists today.

    Photoshop Tutorial Screenshot


Dirk Metzmacher is a professional Photoshop trainer and book author with over 10 years of experience. He is also the creative mind behind (Photoshop-Weblog), a blog about techniques, tutorials and resources related to Adobe Photoshop.

  1. 101

    fantastic
    i link this page in my forum

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  2. 102

    were can i download this 70 beauty-retouching photoshop tutorials?
    or if its a certain photoshop, then what one is it? and were can i download it?
    can anybody send me a link or tell me the website and what photoshop it is.

    thank you.

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    Tamas .A. khan

    August 25th, 2008 3:30 am

    Great ideas over here

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  4. 104

    !!!! Superb !!!!!
    Very Help Full

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  5. 105

    PHOTOSHOPED! This is all totally photoshoped, not real! NOT REAL!

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  6. 106

    I’ve seen better done by 16 year olds…. Not very impressive. Nothing looks even remotely natural. The idea is to NOT show that the image was retouched. Poor article…..

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  7. 107

    wow this is great!! so comprehensive. Its like all the random links Ive seen in one! like a yelow pages of photo retouching!! Thanks a lot

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  8. 108

    me re gusto

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  9. 109

    Woooow the BAST tutorial in the World … thanks a lot :D

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  10. 110

    they are all ugly but not me im the most sexiest woman ever i have a flatty batty andd a flat chestt i love to put poo poo all over myy privatee to give it that tinggy taste

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  11. 111

    This is great, it helps me so much, thanks!

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  12. 112

    great tutorials! It’s just sad that some people find here the forum to complain about other things that aren’t relevant. This is like school – it doesn’t matter that the subject is or not offensive: people want and should learn about it. It’s like saying that the holocaust is terrible, and because of that we won’t “teach about it anymore” – or a proctologist not learning most of his trade because it deals with anus, and that’s, after all, disgusting. This is NOT the place to talk about how you feel about the fashion industry – which, by the way, have been doing this longer than most people here were born, because the market asks for it. Dove came up with a campaign that showed “real beauty”, and had to remove it from most markets, because it hurt sales. Now can you really say with a straight face that the market doesn’t dictate this? also, there’s nothing degrating about wanting to look good – we all do it – even if the end result is questionable. Niki Brown herself has a picture of her with a read hat – I’m sure she wasn’t cold when she took the picture, but she feels/thinks/knows she loogs good wearing it – or “cool”. Whatever the reason is, is purely aesthetic. Say it isn’t so.

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    oops – I write too fast sometimes: “… with a RED hat…” “… she LOOKS good..” (before people start attacking the grammar to avoid talking about the issue)
    peace

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  14. 114

    i think alot of these tuts are quite usefull if you just want to play around. I clicked on “the art of retouching” by Glenn Feron. there is a galery..or portfolio. The pictures are mostly all of women, the pictures objectify women and use very sensual poses to sell technology. They are selling tvs and dvds and they have a half naked woman with her chest popping out with the merchandise?! we are in 2008. this shoudnt be happening. Those pictures totally devalorise women.
    I really dont think what he does is fair or right. Here is the link so you can see for yourself.
    http://glennferon.com.nyud.net:8090/portfolio1/index.html

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  15. 115

    For those having an issue with the concept of photo retouching or image manipulation…..do you also take issue with people buying makeup or enlisting the aid of plastic surgeons?

    The Fashion industry is the driving force and has been around since long before photoshop was ever heard of.

    I don’t see a lot of difference between layering on a ton of makeup to mask perceived imperfections and utilizing photoshop to achieve the same results..except, perhaps, that photoshop is non-destructive and won’t lead to future skin issues or irreparable body modifications.

    I don’t particularly have to agree with the levels of manipulation some people go to (both in photoshop and in the ‘real’ world) but, that doesn’t mean I have the right to impose my views on them.

    Eliminating the cosmeticians won’t ‘correct’ the problem. Nor will flaming threads such as this. The fact remains that there IS a whole industry built up around the perceived ‘perfect’ image. If you wish to change that simple fact then, perhaps direct your energies to the Fashion industry moguls and major makeup manufacturers.

    In the meanwhile, photoshop, used properly can help augment an image and, perhaps, make somebody feel better about themselves for a moment in time…even if they shouldn’t feel badly about their image in the first place.

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  16. 116

    where can i download it free

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  17. 117

    hi frnds…
    this site is excellent
    to biginners.
    many many thanks….

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    sklepy internetowe wrocław

    November 29th, 2008 5:40 am

    Thanks for this article, it’s great. So great that we’ve made it ‘sticky’ on The Webmaster Forums. Now we don’t have to repeat ourselves, just send people to this article!

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    who is this good for? Is it a compliment to the model (shouldn’t be it’s NOT her picture)? It’s a lie, and everyone is finding out. REally what’s the point. Go paint or draw a beautiful women, instead of tricking ppl. ANYONE ANYONE ANYONE can look perfect with photoshop. look at Lil kim before and after photoshop. Silly..Anyone who uses this crap will regret it once they think it over i’m sure. They will no longer have a picture of themselves at all

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    Thank you for this.
    These excellent tips are extremely helpful.

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    Ralph McPherson

    January 19th, 2009 10:42 am

    Wow! Thanks! They look very helpfull

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  23. 123

    i loved this website so much
    i only have two words wow and amazing

    P.S. send me some more of the pics.

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  24. 124

    @Niki Brown: your use of the word “unethical” shows a complete lack of understanding of the word. To compare teaching the use of Photoshop to create digital art to truly unethical acts is ridiculous!

    If you’re trying to make a comment on the retouching industry in general, as opposed to these tutorials, then why don’t you say so?

    On the flip side of that, retouching an image to create an ideal allows more models to get work, so that the ‘evil’ editors of fashion magazines won’t destroy the minds of girls who are ‘too fat’, or ‘too ugly’ to otherwise get work.

    If you were a young girl wanting to take up modelling, would you feel worse getting rejected time after time after time because you’re too fat, or would you feel worse getting jobs, and then having your appearance tweaked?

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  25. 125

    Great job mate, I really appreicate…

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  26. 126

    wow greaT!

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    It is very prof. and handy work

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  29. 129

    everyone has their days who know they hav pimples the day they have photo shoots which can’t call off due to equipment, place and etc rentals so photos needs been taken and retouched just like flowers and plans need water and sunlight too much they’ll die so …. it’s helps me alot here and it’s much appreciated thank you very much!

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    hello! The babes are here! This is my favorite site to visit. I make sure I am alone in case I get too hot. Post your favorite link here.

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    Cesar Ramírez

    April 13th, 2009 10:34 am

    Muchas gracias :)

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  32. 132

    wow………. its gud n helpful i liked it

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  33. 133

    WOW thank you SO much for these Tuts…I’ve been looking everywhere for help and finally have come accross a site that is helpful in what I’ve been trying to accomplish. I am very new with “photoshop”, presently I’m working in Elements 6, and was wondering if these tuts apply to this the particular version I’m working in.

    Also, wanted to make a comment on those who apparently have need of complaining that this is “Unethical” etc. I do NOT understand how on earth wanting to look better is unethical. I work in the modeling industry and touch ups are done ALL the time, in fact not one goes into a magazine without first being touched up in some form. What is the BIG DEAL? I am a woman and do not see the connection of what some claim to be “degrading” or whatever. The only trouble I did have was the changing of one’s skin tone, I found the model prior photo of her skin tone to be absolutely BEAUTIFUL thus, I didn’t see a need of changing it but having said that, there are many in this world who obviously would like to see how they may look with a different skin tone. That is their business and their choice. I personally would not choose to do so but everyone has a right to choose what they so desire. Also, keep in mind that it is PRIMARILY the subject of the photo that desires change NOT the photographer, etc. thus none of the women are being belittled, etc. THEY have made the choice to have a flawless photo and in my opinion there is NOTHING wrong with the choice they’ve made. We cannot change the world. Sadly in almost EVERY industry its all about image, nothing we can do to change that!

    Anyway, I appreciate you taking time out to post these tuts, they’ve been EXTREMELY helpful to this beginner ;-)

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    Hay Nikki brown > I can understand ur feelings but it’s mad’s world and all are mad to catch woman in any advertisement promotion, tell me honestly, Do u watch TV? lets count it about every 10 nos of TV ad, u should go through 8 ads showing woman face or figure in so many poses, This world now buyers world and (all most) every small or big sellers love to produce their product on air/print with ladies, it’s hard to believe but it’s true.

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    Geri from acne solution

    June 9th, 2009 4:01 pm

    Wow, I am impressed by what can be done with a click of the mouse. Thanks for this very informative piece.

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  36. 136

    its gud n helpful i liked it Thank you

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  37. 137

    Blah blah blah… some of you people take life way too seriously!
    My neice was attending her prom but has pretty bad acne. For weeks before, she ate right and used all sorts of creams & soaps to keep her skin clear. It was working, but the stress of the evening got to her and she broke out the night before her prom.
    Not to mention there was an idiot photographer who couldn’t even get the lighting right!
    I used these tutorials to neaten up her photo a bit and she was ecstatic.
    By the way, I’m also female and won’t be naive enough to deny that sex sells.
    Grow up people seriously!
    You don’t complain when there’s tutorials on taking a mundame landscape image and converting into something masterful. How is this any different???!?!?!?!??!?!

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  38. 138

    MAGNIFICIENT

    THANKS

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  39. 139

    tks for the tuts… i think photo retouching is always useful for a designer…

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    sushil K. Sharma

    July 29th, 2009 2:49 am

    very good excellent job keeps up its very helpful
    but what add layer mask A to Z totutrial where is

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    I would like to agree with some of the sentiments of other posters. Un-ethical is banded around without any thought. Photo retouching alone isn’t un-ethical, Retouching news images, changing someones skin from dark to light, improving appearance of youngsters in photo’s is.
    Photoshop seems to be blamed for all societys ills, when in theory its only been around in the industry for no more than 15 -20years. Image manipulation has been around since man first captured the human face and form on stone and later on celluloid.
    You think the classical greek statues were acurate depictions or that roman emperors actually looked like the image on coins?, of course not. The same goes for paintings by most of the masters. Kings and queens and noblemen never looked like their pictures.

    We as humans at an animalistic level like symetrical perfect looking things, it’s in our nature. The same reason why a peahen looks for the brightest, biggest most perfect peacock, it means he’s healthy. We are unfortuately a visual animal and this is a knock on effect of this.
    As someone said before if your going to criticise retouchers then you must also criticise all women who wear make-up, all people who have plastic surgery for beauty purposes or for treating disfigurement, all fashion designers, and all magazine editors.
    Educating teenagers on the subject is the key.

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  42. 142

    As a fashion photographer, half of these tutorials are awful and teach bad habits! Please have a thorough read before you post this… none of these effectively answer the question of how to retouch skin. Not even the fashion/beauty industry wants their models’ skin to look this bad!

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  43. 143

    Mediocre at best. These are not high end at all.

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    amazing….

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    Nice collection …~~~~

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  46. 146

    how do u join this?

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  47. 147

    estraordinarios tutoriales gracias y los felicito me gustaria que sacaran tutoriales de como crear plantillas psd y quisiera saber de una pagina para bajar plantillas gratis gracias por toda su alluda

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  48. 148

    I’m seeing way too much blur going on. The quicker the fix, the worse it looks, a beauty retouch that doesn’t take at the very least an hour or two is going to look pretty awful in print.

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    Your Effects all super

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    I found the Vitamin Enhanced Moisturizer from the Made from Earth line is the best for improving skin tone. First, it WORKS! The company says to give it 4 weeks, but in as little as 1 there was a noticable difference in my two brown patches (on the driver’s window-side–sunblock, sunblock, sunblock!).

    Also, I have super-sensitive skin which can’t decide if it’s dry or oily or just going to be both with the beginnings of wrinkles, but this product didn’t clog pores or feel gooey, and it didn’t dry me out or make me red.

    It goes a long way – at first I thought it was expensive for 2 ounces but the jar has lasted me two months! Thats how potent it is – im actually saving money by using this because it replaces the other stuff that runs out so quick.

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  51. 151

    cool but i think on black skin retouching is what i need can you show me my wayabout ?

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  52. 152

    Excellent list!!
    Thanks for sharing!!

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  53. 153

    I love the great work you guys are doing and wish i could join some time to come

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  54. 154

    This is great, it helps me so much, thanks!

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  55. 155

    How do you get skin like this with all the pores and texture still there?

    http://www.dmeadowsdesign.com/portfolio/beauty-retouching/

    Anyone?

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  56. 156

    it’s very useful for me, thanks you very much. I love you.

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    sergio zambrano

    July 3rd, 2010 11:46 pm

    I hope you can include my… wait!, mine is not a tutorial, but an ACTION for QUICK results!

    Here’s a PRO technique, which can be used to extract the wrinkles from an old man and apply them to a young girl, or just dramatically fix skin issues NO plastic skin results.

    You can download it from my [wordpress blog socialblogsitewebdesign.com] (http://socialblogsitewebdesign.com/photoshop-perfect-skin-secrets-keeping-pores)

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  58. 158

    how do you photoshop a man’s face?

    Since you can’t make him look too smooth, because he’ll end up looking gay.

    It’d be nice to see how to photoshop a man’s face with stubble or something.

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  59. 159

    great tutorials!!!!!!!!
    thanks!! :)

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    wonder full

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    Really outstanding, & along with lots of information.

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  62. 163

    Great tuts. (:

    Don’t see how it’s unethical. They’re just pictures. Seriously. Get over yourselves.

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    I’m Linda and have been retoucher working more than 10 years in Shanghai .
    I’m looking forward to work with you in the near future.
    Gook luck!

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    Ramesh Vishwakarma

    September 28th, 2010 5:18 am

    Great collection…. :)

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  65. 166

    Thank’s for this B’coz that is very excellent tips are extremely helpful for edting any other images……………….

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    realy i like it. it helps me on time.

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    Sweet

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  68. 169

    i cant even begin to thank you this is so totally cool

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  69. 170

    nice. Grate.Thanks

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  70. 171

    Thank you very ,very much!!!!

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    I don’t know what any of the “CRY BABIES” are crying about,all they’re showing us is how to do it,They’re not saying this is what we should do to fool people,because anyone that knows us or would meet us after seeing our(photo shopped pics) will see us and laugh their asses off,It is mainly to touch up photos that we really like and might not be able to ever take again,so if we can fix a part we don’t like why not,then erasing a memory (But anyways what is wrong with seeing how we would look in different color hair,or clearing up our blemishes,or green eyes instead of brown,or even bigger breast,and If some wants to put it out there for people to see, maybe they want to know what type of reaction they get?) And finally why they don’t show men,is because most of us don’t give a F*CK what we look like,As long as our cloths are clean and we can still smooth talk into getting “SOME” we DON’T CARE ABOUT PHOTO SHOP/NOR HAVE THE TIME ! p.s. Any girls like what they hear hit me up!!!

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  72. 173

    nice collection! thanks! :)

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  73. 174

    I am now well into my 50s and I have tried everything on the market, even expensive bleaching creams purchased from my dermatologist. I’ve found that most skin lightening creams–if they work at all–lighten your skin and the scaring in equal proportions, leaving the scars just as prominent as before you started using the product; you look like you’re changing colors and you still have spots.

    What I was looking for was something that would even out my skin tone; leave my skin color as it was but smooth out and/or lighten only the scars so that my face would have the same even coloring all over. Nothing worked, that is until I found Dr Max Powers Scar Serum. I thought it should just be used on scars, but I used it all around my face as my moisturizer. And I am extremely happy with the results!

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  74. 175

    Hi Thankyou so much…. :-)

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  75. 176

    Well, great collection and a lot of good inspiration for getting better final results :)
    Helped me getting even more beautiful shots.

    Thanks for sharing!

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    I found this so helpful and my friends -and their partners/spouses- who like me to take their photos are happy too because they bought the software for me and I thought I’d never figure out how to do anything with it. And all this complaining and fake people, fake boobs, fake models–pffft. How about fake singers who win grammys and sell millions?! We’ve had “composite” singers in the music industry since the advent of ProTools. So convincingly real that even a flat singer with a brilliant husband doesn’t know that’s her COMPOSITE pitch and note corrected and perfected studio vocal track playing through the system while her mic is off except for in her earbuds during live gigs! (Soundmen cannot keep secrets, lol.) I think that’s MUCH worse than perfect models being glued together to make perfect composite models. Join the club visual artists!

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    Some of the links don’t work anymore ):

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    Paula Millers

    July 6th, 2011 10:53 pm

    so cool, there are very useful and helpful.
    thanks for sharing.

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    Paula Millers

    July 6th, 2011 10:54 pm

    great collection and a lot of good inspiration !!

    -Paula voodoo spells

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    goodbetterandbest

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    NIKI BROWN, you disgust me, like most feminists. The idea of a female sexualized destroys you so much, that you refer to it as degrading and marginizing. Give me a freaking break.

    How often do you see guys in sexual positions? Oh yeah, that’s right… its barely noticable when it is a guy. Try watching Spongebog, or nickeledeon. The amount of time the camera zooms in on a guy’s butt in kids hows is amazing. But feminists like you and your “marginizing” nonsense.

    Your inability to ignore this only makes females look like the weaker gender. It is girls that get away with so many things that would be considered crimes if a guy did so. If people want to look beautiful, that’s their own business. Don’t bring everyone else to your standards just because you are ugly and your life is miserable.

    And just be lucky you are actually a whining female. Whining guys get beaten up, and that is the only thing keeping you annoying feminists from an ass whooping… your gender.

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    it’s really good and helpful.

    +1
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    Its really use full to the trainers
    thanks

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    This is a good web site !!!!!!

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  85. 186

    What type of Photoshop is this??…where can I download it..and is it for Mac?

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    Keeping a fresh blog is tough and really tiresome. You’ve pulled it off well though.

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    Sorry, but my retoucher Bianca Carosio murders this whole website, with no remorse, on her skills.

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    Nothing about Photoshop is right, it gives girls a false image of what they are supposed to look like. When they see beautiful, perfect women they expect that that is what they need to look like. They starve themselves, wear gobs of makeup, all to try and look like these girls. when in reality, THEY DON’T EVEN LOOK LIKE THAT. It’s disgusting to think that models and stars look like the rest of us do, normal, but they can’t let that be shown. They have some pictures of girls who are pretty and skinny anyways, and STILL retouch them to make them smaller. WHY? Normal girls read these, so normal looking girls should be featured in them.

    -1

  1. 1

    I would like to agree with some of the sentiments of other posters. Un-ethical is banded around without any thought. Photo retouching alone isn’t un-ethical, Retouching news images, changing someones skin from dark to light, improving appearance of youngsters in photo’s is.
    Photoshop seems to be blamed for all societys ills, when in theory its only been around in the industry for no more than 15 -20years. Image manipulation has been around since man first captured the human face and form on stone and later on celluloid.
    You think the classical greek statues were acurate depictions or that roman emperors actually looked like the image on coins?, of course not. The same goes for paintings by most of the masters. Kings and queens and noblemen never looked like their pictures.

    We as humans at an animalistic level like symetrical perfect looking things, it’s in our nature. The same reason why a peahen looks for the brightest, biggest most perfect peacock, it means he’s healthy. We are unfortuately a visual animal and this is a knock on effect of this.
    As someone said before if your going to criticise retouchers then you must also criticise all women who wear make-up, all people who have plastic surgery for beauty purposes or for treating disfigurement, all fashion designers, and all magazine editors.
    Educating teenagers on the subject is the key.

    +4
  2. 2

    @niki brown

    get a grip of yourself, these tutorials are a collection to learn from, the techniques can be applied to emphasize the male body easily, it just so happens that women can have a lot more work done with them (make up etc).

    You must not have noticed the male tutorial subjects either? Get off your high horse.

    @everyone else

    great tuts!

    +4
  3. 3

    To all those complaining: whether or not it is unethical is irrelevant. Photo manipulation is an essential skill for graphic designers. Moreover, the market demands beauty-retouching. If any one designer stops retouching in protest, another designer will gladly do it. Take your activism elsewhere.

    +3
  4. 4

    !!!! Superb !!!!!
    Very Help Full

    +2
  5. 5

    How disgusting. This goes beyond removing some pimples from a wedding picture. This is changing the physical anatomy of a woman so she is barely recognizable.

    @Jak, do you really believe that those models are fat in real life? They’re actually really skinny. Photoshop morphs them into physically impossible waifs.

    What is ugly about having some freckles? Why should we “brighten” a black woman’s skin?

    There are some things that photoshop is useful for. Moving obstructions, changing the lightening, cleaning up red eye. We DON’T need photoshop to beautify people who are already models. I wonder why they even hire models for magazine shoots anymore, you won’t recognize them in the ad

    +2
  6. 6

    PHOTOSHOPED! This is all totally photoshoped, not real! NOT REAL!

    +1
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    Ew. Most of the models looked better before the re-touching. They look far too plastic afterwards. I have “fixed” photos before but I would never smooth EVERY “blemish” out and make the person look like a Bratz doll. Remove pimples etc, soften some areas just a little, pop some highlights, and you get a realistic but still beautiful result. If you’re going for a very fantasy look, make it obvious. I think a lot of consumers are getting tired of the overly-photoshopped model.

    And just because a lot of women themselves ask for their photos to be retouched doesn’t make it OK to pretend that this doesn’t have an impact in our society. Sure, this is a design blog not a political or social issues blog, but what we participate in as professionals still contributes to the whole problem.

    +1
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    That one turning the African American lady white is just evil. Just Sad. I suppose its meant to make better right?

    +1
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    Federico Espinosa

    July 15th, 2008 5:19 am

    very nice tutorials

    +1
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    Fashion Photographer

    July 17th, 2008 12:07 am

    Some of these retouchers are really awful, but a few of the tutorials give a good sampling of the basics. But I definitely agree with the other commenters that a few of them could earn a spot on PhotoshopDisasters…

    +1
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    Lots to learn from this. Thanks!

    +1
  12. 12

    Thanks!

    +1
  13. 13

    OMG, this is the best selection ever.
    Well know tricks, and some new ones. You guys rock.
    Put a DONATION button NOW!!!

    +1
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    I agree with many of the comments above that POSTS LIKE THESE MARGINALIZE WOMEN and make pigs out of men.

    The editors of Smashing seem to spew these stereotypes on women a lot, but I agree with another of the comments above that this is the worst smashing article yet.

    +1
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    How come all of the women in the before photos look better than the after ones? Especially the main photo from the front page

    +1
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    Not a fan of this collection. Smashing usually puts really inspirational pages together.
    This is rubbish … there’s no beauty in this use of photoshop. It’s not inspirational. Faking the real world isn’t cool.

    @Jak – why do you think Nikki Brown’s comment ‘spoils this’? She’s just stating her opinion. And it’s a very valid one. My opinion, for what it’s worth is that you write like a child :)

    +1
  17. 17

    I have to agree with other people’s comments — I found this article to be very offensive and encouraging stereotypes. I realize that people do this stuff for a living, but I’ve always looked to Smashing for inspiration, and this is not it.

    +1
  18. 18

    again…mine is not in the list …sigh ~

    +1
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    Markus of Sweden

    July 15th, 2008 6:13 am

    Wow! This is amazing! Thanks!

    +1
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    Hey! better photoshop than dangerous plastic surgery. thank you for the collection {:

    +1
  21. 21

    lol there all women

    +1
  22. 22

    I’ve seen better done by 16 year olds…. Not very impressive. Nothing looks even remotely natural. The idea is to NOT show that the image was retouched. Poor article…..

    +1
  23. 23

    they are all ugly but not me im the most sexiest woman ever i have a flatty batty andd a flat chestt i love to put poo poo all over myy privatee to give it that tinggy taste

    +1
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    For those having an issue with the concept of photo retouching or image manipulation…..do you also take issue with people buying makeup or enlisting the aid of plastic surgeons?

    The Fashion industry is the driving force and has been around since long before photoshop was ever heard of.

    I don’t see a lot of difference between layering on a ton of makeup to mask perceived imperfections and utilizing photoshop to achieve the same results..except, perhaps, that photoshop is non-destructive and won’t lead to future skin issues or irreparable body modifications.

    I don’t particularly have to agree with the levels of manipulation some people go to (both in photoshop and in the ‘real’ world) but, that doesn’t mean I have the right to impose my views on them.

    Eliminating the cosmeticians won’t ‘correct’ the problem. Nor will flaming threads such as this. The fact remains that there IS a whole industry built up around the perceived ‘perfect’ image. If you wish to change that simple fact then, perhaps direct your energies to the Fashion industry moguls and major makeup manufacturers.

    In the meanwhile, photoshop, used properly can help augment an image and, perhaps, make somebody feel better about themselves for a moment in time…even if they shouldn’t feel badly about their image in the first place.

    +1
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    i think alot of these tuts are quite usefull if you just want to play around. I clicked on “the art of retouching” by Glenn Feron. there is a galery..or portfolio. The pictures are mostly all of women, the pictures objectify women and use very sensual poses to sell technology. They are selling tvs and dvds and they have a half naked woman with her chest popping out with the merchandise?! we are in 2008. this shoudnt be happening. Those pictures totally devalorise women.
    I really dont think what he does is fair or right. Here is the link so you can see for yourself.
    http://glennferon.com.nyud.net:8090/portfolio1/index.html

    +1
  26. 26

    Great job mate, I really appreicate…

    +1
  27. 27

    WOW thank you SO much for these Tuts…I’ve been looking everywhere for help and finally have come accross a site that is helpful in what I’ve been trying to accomplish. I am very new with “photoshop”, presently I’m working in Elements 6, and was wondering if these tuts apply to this the particular version I’m working in.

    Also, wanted to make a comment on those who apparently have need of complaining that this is “Unethical” etc. I do NOT understand how on earth wanting to look better is unethical. I work in the modeling industry and touch ups are done ALL the time, in fact not one goes into a magazine without first being touched up in some form. What is the BIG DEAL? I am a woman and do not see the connection of what some claim to be “degrading” or whatever. The only trouble I did have was the changing of one’s skin tone, I found the model prior photo of her skin tone to be absolutely BEAUTIFUL thus, I didn’t see a need of changing it but having said that, there are many in this world who obviously would like to see how they may look with a different skin tone. That is their business and their choice. I personally would not choose to do so but everyone has a right to choose what they so desire. Also, keep in mind that it is PRIMARILY the subject of the photo that desires change NOT the photographer, etc. thus none of the women are being belittled, etc. THEY have made the choice to have a flawless photo and in my opinion there is NOTHING wrong with the choice they’ve made. We cannot change the world. Sadly in almost EVERY industry its all about image, nothing we can do to change that!

    Anyway, I appreciate you taking time out to post these tuts, they’ve been EXTREMELY helpful to this beginner ;-)

    +1
  28. 28

    MAGNIFICIENT

    THANKS

    +1
  29. 29

    Blah blah blah… some of you people take life way too seriously!
    My neice was attending her prom but has pretty bad acne. For weeks before, she ate right and used all sorts of creams & soaps to keep her skin clear. It was working, but the stress of the evening got to her and she broke out the night before her prom.
    Not to mention there was an idiot photographer who couldn’t even get the lighting right!
    I used these tutorials to neaten up her photo a bit and she was ecstatic.
    By the way, I’m also female and won’t be naive enough to deny that sex sells.
    Grow up people seriously!
    You don’t complain when there’s tutorials on taking a mundame landscape image and converting into something masterful. How is this any different???!?!?!?!??!?!

    +1
  30. 30

    tks for the tuts… i think photo retouching is always useful for a designer…

    +1

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