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:
- Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Best Of
- Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials: Best Of
- Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects
Skin
- Beautiful Skin
Not everyone has beautiful skin but you can make it better – at least in your photographs.
- Smooth skin
How to make a skin like the ones you see in magazines like Playboy.
- 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.
- 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.
- Perfect Skin
How you can get rid of all the acne and pimples and blemishes and scars on your face.
- Skin looking smooth
During the course of this Photoshop Lunacore shows you how to make skin look smooth.
- Makeup makeover
How to remove hair in front of someone’s face, retouch skin and apply makeup using Photoshop.
- Dark skin – bright skin
This tutorial shows you how to make a dark skin bright(er).
- A chapter of Beauty Retouching
A free sample chapter of “Skin”, a Photoshop Retouching Book by Lee Varis about Beauty Retouching.
Hair
- Changing Hair Color
How to change hair color.
- Shining hair
Creating shining hair like shown in shampoo ads.
- Removing Hair Roots
A fairly straight-forward method for removing hair roots that takes mere seconds to accomplish.
- Color hair locks
Changing hair color in just few minutes.
Body (breasts, bum, figure, etc.)
- Trimming weight
Trimming weight off with the Liquify tool.
- Digital Nip Tuck
Photoshop is probably the cheapest alternative to plastic surgery possible.
- Digital Nose Job
Simple and easy photo editing technique to give someone a digital nose job.
- Spare Tires
In this tutorial we will see how to remove love handles (or the extra fat around the waist).
- Smaller Nose
This tutorial will walk you through the steps for reducing the size of a nose in a photograph using Photoshop.
- Bigger Bustline
Learn to make a bustline look huge and comically big.
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.
- Red Eye Tool
This photoshop tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop CS2’s Red Eye tool in a non-destructive way.
- Whitening Teeth & Eyes
Some methods to make natural elements white or whiter.
- Make eyelashes thicker
Learn how to make eyelashes thicker.
- Apply Eye Make-up
This photoshop tutorial will show you how you can add eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara to any model easily.
- Eyebrow Piercing
This tutorial shows you how to add an eyebrow piercing to a photo.
- Photoshop dentist
Everybody can be a good dentist – with Photoshop.
- Whitening Teeth
Another way to make whiter teeth with Adjustment Layer.
Galleries
- Celebrities Before and After
Shows some photos of celebrities before and after beauty retouching.
- Greg Apodaca
Rolling the mouse over most of the images of this digital portfolio will display the original scan before it was retouched.
- Touch of Glamour
Photo Retouching and Enhancement for Pageant, Model and Glamour Photography – Rollover effect also here.
- Amy Dresser
Portfolio of a full-time retoucher and illustrator.
- Retouche
Norm Nason is a senior graphic designer and fine artist.
- The art of retouching
Glenn Feron was born, then found art and was born again.
- Digitalpablo
Portfolio of Pablo J. Castillo.
- Digital Retouche
A German professional retoucher.
- 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.
- Digital Retouching Services
From very basic blemish clean ups to full out magazine quality beauty skin retouching.
- Retouchme
Creative high-end beauty, fashion and product retouching.
- Retouche Demo
Nice flash demonstration how to retouche a photo.
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.
- Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff makeover.
- Breast Enlarge
This tutorial shows you how to enlarge a breast.
- Smart Filters
Using smart filters to soften the skin of your subject gives you the ability to retouch your image while maintaining flexibility.
- Basic Beauty
Learn the absolute basics of beauty retouching in Photoshop.
- Beauty Saloon
Skin retouching with Photoshop.
- Model Beauty
Speed revision of a model beauty.
- Natural to Synthetic
Extremly makeover of a photo of Amy Lee from Evanescence.
- Gossip Girl
Leighton Meester super glam.
- Body makeover
Makeover to illustrate what photoshop can do.
- Magic
The fast way to loosing weight.
- Pretty
A little time and effort can do a lot.
- Extreme
A really nice Photoshop Makeover.
- Pretty face
Another Makeover.
- proof
Proof that you can in fact create top beauty images with a point and shoot camera.
- model job
Great digital makeup in photoshop.
- The Perfect Lie
High-speed Photoshop transformation.
Complete Workflow
- Pure perfection
Spin raw beauty into pure perfection. Very detailed tutorial.
- Beautify a Face
This extensive Photoshop tutorial will show you how to beautify a face.
- 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.
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.
More beauty
- Longer Nails
You would like a woman’s nails to be longer? Here we go…
- Eliminate Cellulite
In this tutorial you can learn how to eliminate a person’s cellulite.
- Nail manipulation
Manipulating nails by increasing length and changing shade.
- Airbrush retouching
See what`s possible with Photoshop`s airbrush tool.
- Retouching for Beginners
This tutorial shows a couple of simple techniques you can use to enhance your portraits.
- Photoshop Beauty
Some ways to improve your photos with the help of using Photoshop.
- 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.
- Looking good
Great Techniques for Photoshop Beauty Retouching.
- New look
Whatever a model looks like, we can give her a totaly new, beautiful look.
- Glamour Style
Suzette Troche-Stapp is one of the most sought-after photographer/digital artists today.
Marie
July 15th, 2008 5:15 amLots to learn from this. Thanks!
Kathi
July 15th, 2008 5:15 amThanks!
Toby
July 15th, 2008 5:15 amwow!!!great!
Niki Brown
July 15th, 2008 5:17 amHate to say it, but crap like this is totally unethical. The only thing that is slightly interesting is the changing the hair color. And WHY are all of these images of women in pseudo sexual poses? Way to re-enforce stereotypes and marginalize women.
Niki Brown
Mutchin
September 9th, 2010 12:31 pm@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!
asif
July 5th, 2011 9:01 amya! off cause i agree with you.
yeah
July 15th, 2011 4:09 pmDo you honestly think you speak for all female? Everyone has the right to CHOOSE what they prefer, and what they like. Stop putting everyone else in your shoes.
The fact that you are CRYING over ridiculous pictures puts YOU in the stereotype of a useless crying female. If you don’t like this, GO AWAY. But the fact that this is too much for you, and that it destroys your view on females show much… you’ve just shown how incredibly WEAK you are.
“marginalize women. ”
I’ve got a new line for you feminists. What are you gonna do about it? They say that guys should not hit girls, but I make acceptions for people like you. Some of my female friends like sexy, some don’t care. But if you EVER interrupted any of us with your “this insults females” I swear I would punch in your face, and I will make sure you are beaten down by males and females.
Not every female is as weak-minded as you are. And by the way, do you know what most guys do when we find a picture of a muscular guy in his underwear? We don’t cry on how degrading it is. No, we get out of here and never speak about it (gay bashing may or may not occur.)
Though, what I said is too much for you. That is why you should be punched in your face. You don’t speak for all women, you don’t speak for all humans. Go to hell
Kada
August 13th, 2011 2:51 pmGo burn your bra somewhere else.
Brennan
July 15th, 2008 5:18 amGreat compilation of PS tuts… So much to learn, so little time.
;)
Federico Espinosa
July 15th, 2008 5:19 amvery nice tutorials
Plexihack
July 15th, 2008 5:20 amAbsoulute must-have bookmark form all artists…
Gg guys!
Geoff
July 15th, 2008 5:29 amlol there all women
therapix
July 15th, 2008 5:44 amOMG, this is the best selection ever.
Well know tricks, and some new ones. You guys rock.
Put a DONATION button NOW!!!
Tracy
July 15th, 2008 6:05 amThank you Smashing!
I have wanted to get my hands on tutorials for some of this stuff for AAAGGGGGEEESSS now! Especially the really heavy stuff like the beauty retouching and the liquify tool!
Manasa Malipeddi
July 15th, 2008 6:08 amAmazing!! I’ve never seen a more comprehensive list! Thanks so much. I’ve been looking for tutorials like these for ages. It couldn’t have come at a better time. I had installed Photoshop CS3 Extended just yesterday.
Markus of Sweden
July 15th, 2008 6:13 amWow! This is amazing! Thanks!
Pelardo
July 15th, 2008 6:15 amvery nice collection
Jak
July 15th, 2008 6:15 am@ Niki Brown: aw, why you got to spoil this, this is just a collection of “tuts”, go and voice your mind-set to the rest of the world! …ads sell, imagine if Bacardi showed a add with FAT ppl drinking rum on a sofa infront of a telly! … it just wont work! ….besides u are most prob more than 150Kg. Get a life!
Marcel
July 15th, 2008 6:20 amwow! very nice tuts to learn! thanks for the great list
Kaleesh
July 15th, 2008 6:35 amHey! better photoshop than dangerous plastic surgery. thank you for the collection {:
Driftwood
July 15th, 2008 6:52 amOne thing that I didn’t find in here (at least not directly), that I had to scrounge up tutorials for…is for skin reflections. The flash picked up some oils on the skin and was a big pain to try to fix.
Still this is a great round up of tutorials.
kailoon
July 15th, 2008 7:18 amagain…mine is not in the list …sigh ~
foalboy
July 15th, 2008 7:42 amNot 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 :)
trav
July 15th, 2008 7:56 amthis is the WORST smashing article i have ever seen.
Chibani
July 15th, 2008 8:00 amWhat a collection !
Thanks ;)
jf33
July 15th, 2008 8:03 amI 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.
Will Bowlin
January 22nd, 2010 10:38 amSo correct me if I’m wrong, but what I perceive you saying is it doesn’t matter what your client thinks or wants. You’re going to tell them, “sorry, you look like shit and there ain’t a thing I can do about it”! I guess being such a naturalist, you think women shouldn’t wear makeup or any other thing that makes them look different than when they wake up in the morning. What a crock! Talk about a bunch of self righteous bullshit.
Mutchin
September 9th, 2010 12:32 pm@will
well said!
TJ @ Smartblogtips
July 15th, 2008 8:31 amThank you very much. nice tutorial collections
Adam Clark
July 15th, 2008 8:43 ami’ll agree that most of these tutorials are used for unethical purposes (creating an unrealistic standard of attractiveness or physique) however I would be a poor designer if I didn’t take away at least some measure of inspiration or photoshop knowledge, whether it be unethical or not. So in terms of this articles ability to impart ideas for projects upon the reader it it successful, at least on me.
Louisa
July 15th, 2008 8:59 amHow 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
lol
July 15th, 2008 9:22 amTo 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.
Angelie
July 15th, 2008 9:41 amI’ve got only one word coming into my mind to describe this SM article:
WOWWWWWW!
Brilliant selection, well done.
soundproof
July 15th, 2008 9:53 amHow come all of the women in the before photos look better than the after ones? Especially the main photo from the front page
D-Man
July 15th, 2008 10:04 amI 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.
Marek Wojtaszek
July 15th, 2008 10:09 amNow that is brilliant. I was just about to look for some professional retouch articles and there You are :)
Chris
July 15th, 2008 10:24 amI find nothing wrong with doing the kind of retouching that you would do any any situation regardless of subject. For example some skin retouching, hair/eye colour change or say a stray hair or dirt. The whole removing natural lines from faces, complete body modification or removal of depth (shine/shadow) freaks me out. It’s A un-ethical and B plain weird.
Like I said I have no problem with general fix and finish. Hell I’d remove the telegraph polls from a lovely landscape or mud from a car advert. However are we one step away from composite models? with the legs of one attached to the body of another and so on?
Tobias A
July 15th, 2008 10:26 amWow, at least half of these tutorials deserves a post at photoshopdisasters. Could do with some more work put into actually looking at the outcome of these before posting them.
James
July 15th, 2008 12:31 pmSome of these are ok…only two I can say are really great retouchers on here. If you want to check some amazing retouching you should look up Bianca Carosio’s work. I believe one of her links is http://www.modelmayhem.com/photoretoucher
cool posts, thanks!
Jehzeel Laurente
July 15th, 2008 12:46 pmtoo many tutorials, but i’m too lazy to learn :D i have to bookmark this and use it till my laziness will vanish… hehe :)
kayzah
July 15th, 2008 1:09 pmI am so glad that I don’t have to work for a shiny magazine or stuff where I would have to do this job.
Blair McBride
July 15th, 2008 1:40 pmHere’s some food for thought for those people saying this type of touch-up work degrades women and is unethical.
I do some photography, and some digital touch-up work. In all instances, the requests for touch-ups have come from the female subject in the photograph.
bassofia
July 15th, 2008 2:21 pmGracias por la tremenda colección, por supuesto he agregado un enlace para difundirla….
Thank you for the tremendous collection, of course I have added a link to disseminate ….
[70 Tutoriales para Photoshop, Si lo que querías era Tutoriales para Photoshop...]
Salu2
akhdan
July 15th, 2008 2:24 pmI agree with some other comments that this is the worst article especially many of them just disgusting. Another articles is really worth but this..
Charles
July 15th, 2008 2:44 pmTo the activists whining about this article: GMAFB.
This does not marginalize, trivialize, or objectify women in any way. Get a life.
DaveK
July 15th, 2008 4:26 pmMy issue with this article is that many of the tutorials are of very low quality, which can only encourage/result in more grotesque retouched photos out there.
The theme to this article is certainly catering to an acceptable and established part of the Design industry, I have no issue with that … but stick to quality links, SM, don’t drop quality for the sake of quantity.
Jimmy
July 15th, 2008 7:47 pmTQVM – this is almost the ultimate, just below Worth1000.
Karthik
July 15th, 2008 8:16 pmWowwwwwwwww………..amazing tuts. was searching for this all over the net.
sumit
July 15th, 2008 8:25 pmsimply amazing
Awesh
July 15th, 2008 8:34 pmAwesome… thanks :)
gaurav_m
July 15th, 2008 8:52 pmGREAT ….tutorials there..nice!!!
Ash
July 15th, 2008 10:45 pmExcellent article, very useful ! (and don’t loose your time with useless comments, they surely must be some students wich have not been working yet…)
Adel K Ghithan
July 15th, 2008 10:51 pmNow thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat’s some thing
keep smashing the web guys
love u ;)
Daniel
July 15th, 2008 11:09 pmThis is amazing !
you ROCK !
flo
July 16th, 2008 12:11 amagain a fantastic collection! thanks 1000 times!
flo
RubineBoy
July 16th, 2008 12:47 ampriceless
Kashif
July 16th, 2008 12:53 amworst article, unethical.
Myl
July 16th, 2008 1:12 amSmashing Job!
dapas
July 16th, 2008 1:24 amVery helpfull for me. Thank’s…
Justin Roberts
July 16th, 2008 3:28 amWow dude. Photoshop totally ROCKS. Excellent Tutorial indeed.
Unknown
July 16th, 2008 4:56 amYou must be ugly… Niki
Quakeulf
July 16th, 2008 5:24 amI just have to recite what has already been stated: “Moreover, the market demands beauty-retouching. If any one designer stops retouching in protest, another designer will gladly do it. Take your activism elsewhere.”
So please people, do something about it, don’t just talk. If you want to start something about this, go ahead, but do it elsewhere.
Also, I must agree that some (not all, many were quite good and efficient) of the links in this post were not of the kind of standard I would have expected coming from this site. There are literally billions of tutorials for photomanipulation in PS, so finding someplace that has some better tutorials than the other site wouldn’t be that much of a hard issue I guess.
noobee
July 16th, 2008 6:02 amAre these tips intended to be used in Photoshop Elements, CS3 or both/either?
HGK
July 16th, 2008 6:21 amThanks very much for these tutorials.
Whether or not you may think these tutorials are unethical, the fact remains sometimes photos aren’t very flattering. Some people don’t take good photos. If they request something in a photo removed (like red eye) or downplayed (like shine), then I find nothing wrong with that.
trav
July 16th, 2008 8:23 amway to sell out
Nice Guy
July 16th, 2008 10:09 amI don’t think anyone’s complaining that photo retouching is a bad thing, but when women are taken for granted as they are in many of these tutorials, that’s wrong.
tomjulio.com
July 16th, 2008 12:10 pmcrap tutorials on how to make real people look fake as hell. this is the number one problem facing the world of digital photography.
Steve
July 16th, 2008 12:40 pmhmm…to be honest, most of the “before” portraits look better. particularly, the feature example.
Con el viento
July 16th, 2008 6:05 pmWow! Another great compilation.
Good, good, good job!
zoel
July 16th, 2008 9:52 pmcool
thanx very much for the tutorial compilation
i’m not a potoshop newbie anymore…
Fashion Photographer
July 17th, 2008 12:07 amSome 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…
Anj
July 17th, 2008 12:44 amThank u so much for this post!!
Steve
July 17th, 2008 1:10 amFantastic – I’ll get some good use from this page. Thank you!
A great resource.
Alistair
July 17th, 2008 1:39 amGreat tutorials.
But. Seriously. If you’re going to have a career doing this kind of retouching then I’d think seriously about what a messed up world it can contribute too.
As imperfect human beings do we need to see impossibly perfect stereotypes everywhere we look?
Jeff
July 17th, 2008 1:48 amAre you guys serious? This isn’t the forum to discuss social issues. The techniques here are great. I’d be just as amazed if the artists were making beautiful people look ugly.
At least its not another wallpaper post.
greg
July 17th, 2008 5:42 amI saw the post mentioned with another retoucher’s work…Bianca Carosio…does she have online tutorials available??? I wonder why her samples weren’t shown here.
pwenzel
July 17th, 2008 8:17 amNext up, how to make your Facebook profile stand out from the rest!
Sharwan
July 17th, 2008 9:27 amjust stunning!!!!!!!
VonRamsey
July 17th, 2008 10:49 pmYour da man, thanks buddy
duda
July 17th, 2008 11:03 pmgood job!
WeBDrops
July 18th, 2008 3:42 amoh!! My god… Photoshop can do soooo much I just loved this whole article and specially the way you have listed down each thing… good one… thanks for sharing… I have bookmarked this page and m passing this on to our design department m sure this will be interesting for them
nerdski
July 18th, 2008 9:36 amGood stuff! Will illustrator be next? :)
James
July 18th, 2008 11:06 amGreg…
I’ve never seen tutorials by Bianca..but I can imagine all the people asking her for advice..I check her updates often though!
P. Thornton
July 18th, 2008 8:58 pmWhile it might seem unethical to change the look of people, you simply can’t blame the retoucher. Last time I had a guy who wanted to make his face look better for a dating site. Who am I to tell this 24 year old guy not to do it? He has the request, I provide him with a solution. Next time it’s a model or a musician and you expect me to tell them it’s unethical? Most professionals would be without a job and tons of people would complain that they are unable to find a better retoucher other then some 15 year old wannabe photoretoucher in a basement.
Geesh, in that case it’s unethical to sell guns, prescription drugs, to be a soldier or run MacDonalds… Oh wait, I guess it’s also unethical to talk about it like Smashing Magazine does, right?
Get real guys…don’t act like a saint….sigh
James Baldwin
July 19th, 2008 12:47 amThis post couldn’t have come at a better time – I have recently wanted to expand my photoshop knowledge to include the art of beauty retouching and the like; this set of tutorials is absolutely perfect.
A very thorough post and I thank you greatly! Now.. where do I start! :)
Jon Eland
July 19th, 2008 5:25 amOh dear, another bunch of lefties claiming that this marginalises women. Well, I’m here to learn how to re-touch men too so – I’m helping re-balance the ‘marginalisation’.
What this does is play on everyones aspirations and issues – that’s what marketing does. And the main (pretty much only) use of the stuff in smashing magazine is for marketing; whose sole purpose is to convince someone to buy something they didn’t think they needed.
SMashing does a great job of linking and displaying some of the great tips and techniques; it’s not a place for discussing societys ills.
Great article guys, keep ‘em coming.
Titu
July 19th, 2008 7:20 pmIts awesome, fantastic very useful please be continue. Weldone Smashing :)
Kenn
July 20th, 2008 5:50 pmThat one turning the African American lady white is just evil. Just Sad. I suppose its meant to make better right?
Alana
July 21st, 2008 5:37 amJust because you can DIY eugenics using Photoshop doesn’t make it okay. Horrible article.
LouiseL
July 21st, 2008 4:51 pmEw. 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.
shiny_shanny
July 22nd, 2008 1:39 amOh, I can`t wait to come back home from work and try all of these excellent tutorials, I know it will take all night to me, hihihihi :) :D
Mchilly
July 22nd, 2008 9:33 pmGreat collection of tutorials….Photoshop really makes wonder in our photos…
Dennis
July 23rd, 2008 7:11 amGreat set of tutorials, these are pretty basic but are in one place for those that want to get better at retouching photos.
You need to realize that photo’s need to be retouched, weather Glamour, Mens Health, Car and Track, and even Playboy pictures get retouched on a daily basis and it is done to sell the product weather it be a car, clothing, makeup or even the magazine itself. In my opinion there is nothing erotic with any of the pictures and tutorials you provided although all but one are of women, some are very nice models that you can see in any womans magazine, Glamour, Oprah, redbook, etc.
The problem is not with pictures getting retouched, or of women, the problem is that the first thought being off the subject of retouching. Why is making a beautiful woman more beautiful wrong, a woman in a bathing suite is just that, a woman in a bathing suite. A pictue of a women enjoying hereself is just that, a woman enjoying herself.
Stop sitting in judgement people, great tutorials SM
kayzah
July 23rd, 2008 11:30 pmThese tutorials are sooo american ^-^
Chanelle
July 24th, 2008 1:07 amI see that you have featured my website – retouchme
The best retouching is the kind where you keep it realistic. No horrible blurring of skin and making people look totally fake. The high end images that I work on are photographed on medium format cameras that are around 22 megapixels. These pick up every hair and every blemish. If you looked at a person normally you would not see these fine details, therefore when the images come out of camera they are raw and do need refining. The main thing to remember is keep it looking realistic. Take it to the level of how the model would have looked to the eye on the day.
Sunflower Maggie
July 25th, 2008 10:17 pmplease !! leave humans be just humans
with all their beauties AND imperfections
why must everything be so perfect ???
Dell
August 1st, 2008 12:04 pmthis is great… a one stop shop
somebody
August 1st, 2008 3:29 pmwow, this article teaches impressionable Photoshop pirates how to perpetuate ideals of impossible beauty. very useful! let’s all contribute to corporate mindf*ck by creating ads that make life seem better than it really is.
“Moreover, the market demands beauty-retouching.”
the market demands all sort of disgusting things.
Bhanu
August 3rd, 2008 2:37 amreally good
willow
August 3rd, 2008 3:54 amFor those who think that retouching is no big deal, it does have a cumulative effect: go here and watch both clips on the page for some examples
http://jezebel.com/5032073/america-the-beautiful-reveals-ugly-truths
For those saying “keep your debates to yourself” – who should we debate retouching with if not the people who actually do retouching? People who aren’t in design, imaging or photo manipulation at all? Or do you just mean that you want to make money without having to think about what contribution you may be making to something some people consider an insidious problem?
Herbert Bouchez S.
August 4th, 2008 5:11 amThank you “Excelent Work”
regards
Sonja
August 5th, 2008 10:00 pmThis was awesome! it was pretty sweet to be able to look through the pretty wide variation of tutorials. Thanks! =D
nobody..
August 6th, 2008 11:38 pmwell.. for those who are against the photo retouching… i just want to say… please be more.. open minded.. being a designer.. it’s one of the skilled required for most of our projects.. yeah understood they are models.. but models have flaws too… skin.. teeth.. hair.. lips.. flabs.. and the likes.. we designers only remove those for different reasons.. by request, for art purposes.. for beautification.. for the sake of the concept and the likes.. and for the plastic thingy look that i read above.. it happens for a reason.. and depends on the retoucher how he/she would like her model to look.. for me thats fine.. but i find it kinda ugly.. i would just let some humanity look into it if i were to do it.. hey.. but it’s not me that is doing the photo… as i said earlier it depends on the retoucher how he/she would do it.. and about the women models are most preferred… well i do most of the time men retouching… cause you know.. men are more rough than women.. meaning.. they don’t actually care for their looks.. so they tend to have more flaws than women.. maybe that’s why women are always considered as models… easy to fix… ^__^.. just keepin’ it real men…
Morwen
August 7th, 2008 8:59 pmGah, everyone whines so much! Wah wah wah wah wah!! Who freakin cares? What..? You guys gunna make the entire industry dissapear from coming on here and bitching and whining about it to people who think youre all wasting their time? Hate to break it to ya that isnt the way the world works. You hoping to guilt some photo retouchers into quitting their jobs? Giving up their career because you say that its “unethical”? Thats a word thats been thrown around a lot but really whats “unethical” about it? Who is it hurting? The models are all willing participants. Very confused about how this practice is considered so wrong :S
Screw it. Good tuts anyway.
jayesh from india rajkot
August 13th, 2008 7:24 amso very……………………good & nice
Stu.
August 14th, 2008 4:59 pmExecellent collection from photoshop masters, applicable to any type of photographic industry. Very important body of work.
Thank you.