Best Tutorials From Web To Learn Photo Retouching
Retouching is very neccesary if you’re a photographer. It can be pretty fun if you just want to try it out as well. In this article there are collected newest and best retouching tutorials from the web. Of course there are a lot more outside, but I believe you don’t need them all.
You can find anything here from the basic skin smoothening with gaussian blur to complex picture part extracting from background.
Tutorials are sorted in categories, so there shouldn’t be any problem finding the right one for you. I didn’t create this article for you to scroll down 100 same, old, basic tutorials and just tweet them further. I created it for you to find something useful for you, acutally read it and learn something.
Skin
1. Retouching Skin Tutorial
Learn the basic things to do when you need to smoothen someon’s skin a bit. If you aren’t familiar with the art of retouching, you should take a quick look into this.
2. Superb Skin Airbrush Technique
This is pretty basic tutorial as well. If you didn’t like the previous one, take a look into this and I’m pretty sure you will understand the basics of skin smoothening.
3. Skin Softening Tutorial – High/Low Pass
Video tutorial – learn how to smoothen skin tones, while retaining skin detail and texture using High Pass filter.
4.Create Action for Smooth Airbrushed Skin
In this tutorialyouwill seehow to create an action to use in your photos for simple retouching jobs using blurring techniques and grain filters.This is recommended only for beginners, because you can’t replace retouching skills with an action.
5. Removing Skin Blemishes With The Spot Healing Brush
Learn how to ably use Spot Healing Brush Tool to remove blemishes and clear up ugly spot.
6. How to Get Perfect Skin
Litte bit more explained and advanced use of default retouching tools – Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, Gaussian Blur.
7. Soften Skin with Surface Blur
Another easy, fast way to smoothen skin. You will see the difference between Surface and Gaussian blur here. Ofcourse this blurring doesn’t replace work with Healing Brush Tool, but it ain’t so bad either.
Whole face
1. High-End Facial Retouching Video Tutorial
This is a video tutorial that’ll teach you to make the necessary steps in high-end fashion/skin photo-retouching on all of your photographs.
2. Correcting Reflective Make-Up
This video tutorial shows you one way to address reflective make-up on a model or in a portrait.
3. High Quality Portrait Retouching
In this tutorial you’llbe demonstrated the level of editing that goes into removing any discrepancies in the skin.
4. De-Aging in Photoshop
See some of the common retouching tools in action.
5.Professional Photo Retouching Tutorial
Another tutorial to see retouching in action and learn something you didn’t quote understand from writen tutorials.
Hair
1. Professional Hair Retouching
Learn not just how to change hair color, but also how to remove unwanted strands, work with shadows and highlights, boost image vividness.
2. Change Hair Color With Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to change the hair color easily with Photoshop. You can experiment yourself with color tones to achieve different outcomes.
Whole Photo
1. Professional Photographic Retouching Tutorial
In this video tutorialyou will be guidedinto acomplete, professional photographic retouching from start to finish. Additional to all the standart retouching techniques, you’re also going to learn how to simulate realistic depth of field and how to enhance some photos areas.
2. How To Straighten Crooked Photos
In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn a quick and easy way to straighten crooked photos.
Face Parts
1. Easy Digital Nose Job In Photoshop
In this tutorial you’re going to learn how incredibly easy it is to give someone a digital nose job.
2. How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss
This tutorial demonstrates how to use digital painting with a drawing tablet to create the illusion of lip gloss on bare lips.
3. Face Shaping
Learn how to change the shape of nose, chin, lips, eyes etc using Warp and Liquify Tool.
Quick Tips
1. Whiten Teeth in Photoshop
Learn how to quickly whiten teeth in Photoshop in just a couple of minutes.
2. Virtual Weight Loss in Photoshop
Learn how to use Liquify Tool to remove overwightusing Photoshop.
3. Removing Makeup in Photoshop
Really easy tutorial showing you how to get rid of the needless make up using just Brush Tool.
4. Eye Make Up
Learn how to easily apply make up to eyes. You can use this technique to other face parts as well.
5. Retouch Eyes
Learn how to hightlight eyes, apply a bit of make up to make them look beautiful, not hyperbolic.
6. Dodge and Burn Tool Retouch
Learn how tu use Adjustment Layers, Dodge and Burn Tool to achieve similar result if you would used something like Healing Brush Tool.
8. Changing Eye Color
In this Photoshop photo retouching tutorial, we’ll learn a very simple technique for changing someone’s eye color in a photo using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. This is basiccly the most popular way to change the eye color. After you get more familiar with other Adjustment layers, you can experiment with them too.
9. How to Quickly and Effectively Clean Out Body Hair in Photoshop
Use Smudge Tool to quickly clean out body hair. This technique isn’t nearly as good as Healing Brush Tool, but it can be a good time saver and sometimes the effect isn’t so bad.
10. Applying a Realistic Tattoo
In this tutorial you willhave demonstrated an advanced technique to achieve a realistic tattoo.You will be using masks, adjustment layers, displacement maps, and several brushing skills will be applied.
11. Using The Red Eye Tool Non-Destructively
This photoshop tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop Red Eye Tool tool in a non-destructive way. You will alsosee you how to use the red eye tool to create a mask that you can use for any kind of red eye correction.
12. Healing Brushes
See how all of the Healing Toolswork.
Color Adjustments
1. Awesome Photorealistic Coloring Techniques
2. Fix Tone and Color with Levels In Photoshop
Learn how to use basic Photoshop Adjustments to make your photos look more professional.
3. Simple Focused Lighting Effect In Photoshop
In thistutorial, we’re going to look at how to bring focus and attention to a specific part of an image using a simple and easy to create lighting effect.
4. Advanced Color Correction Tutorial
In this tutorial you’re going to learn how to use Curves adjustment with concrete Channel. It is a more sophisticated technique of removing unwanted color casts
5. Add Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph
In this tutorial, you will seehow to spice up a fairly dull and flat photograph. It’s very easy and fast. Go from flat photo to a uniquely lit style.
6. Using the Selective Color Adjustment
This is a tutorial on how to use the selective color adjustment layer in photoshop to optimize colors and tones in your photos.
Landscape Retouch
1. Retouch a Damaged Photograph
In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to improve the quality of a landscape photograph. Learn how to reduce noise, fix damaged areas and use Adjustment layers.
2. Improve Colors of Your Photo
Learn really basic Adjustment Layer techniques to achieve good looking result.
3. Landscape Retouching and Editing in Photoshop
A video tutorial on how to retouch landscape photos; includes information on brightness adjustment, sharpening, noise reduction, proper flattening, and artifact removal.
4. Professional Sharpening For Landscape Images
Learn how tu use Smart SHarpen Filter and get the effect done with blending modes.
5. Enhance Photography
Enhance many aspects of your photography such as saturation, contrast, sharpening techniques and finish of the final presentation with an extremely slick border.
Extracting From Background
1. Selecting & Extracting Hair – Masking Tutorial
One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. Learn how to extract hair from background with masking.
2. Background Replacement Tutorial
A tutorial showing you how to add backgrounds and textures to your existing images using Color Range and Layer Masks.
3. Advanced Selecting Hair
Watch step by step videohow to use channels to extract difficult image areas like hair.
4. Digging into Channels as an Extraction Tool
Learn how tu use channels as an extraction method. Again, the example is a portrait with hair in it, so you could see the power of this technique.
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Alphonso
Posted 79 days ago 21Thanks for the great tutorials!
It’s exactly what we are doing in our own company!
Will bookmark this site.
Thanks again.
Smoothie Maker
Posted 84 days ago 20I’ve got photoshop and am still getting to grips with using it. It’s amazing what can be done once you know what you’re doing.
Marion
Posted 125 days ago 19Thanks so much for sharing this! A great collection of tutorials. There is more than one way to approach edits in Photoshop and always interesting to read a number of tutorials on the same subject each which have something new or different to offer.
Gaming Chairs
Posted 136 days ago 18Nice techniques. Been using Photoshop for 7 years now and learn something new pretty much every day.
nobitaboyz
Posted 156 days ago 17Very useful. Thanks for sharing
Henok Tsegaye
Posted 158 days ago 16nice
Giant bean bags
Posted 222 days ago 15Wow nice!! amazing what you can do with photoshop and in the reach of everyone
Hotels in Edinburgh
Posted 247 days ago 14Love it!! Time to crack on with alll these old photos I have and see what I can do!
Habib Zaman
Posted 263 days ago 13Wonderful posting really helpful to us thank you very much for share.
Web dizajn
Posted 348 days ago 12Great collection, thanks
Think360 Studio - Web Design Company India
Posted 384 days ago 11Wow, really nice collection. Thank you for sharing with us.
Brett Widmann
Posted 532 days ago 10This is a great collection of tutorials. Thanks for sharing.
DMD Retouch
Posted 718 days ago 9That’s an interesting way of hair masking for dark hair, if there’s enough contrast between the two it might just be quicker and just as effective as Calculations. I’ll certainly be testing it :)
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Christy
Posted 748 days ago 8I will be passing this entry along to my friends who love photography. It’s always get to get tips. Thanks!
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Posted 751 days ago 7wow very nice article. We really appreciate it. Thanks for sharing with us..
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Posted 752 days ago 6Really nice collection, with a lot of helpful photoshop-tutorials. Thx for sharing!
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Posted 754 days ago 5hmm this is really nice post 1stwebdesigner….i really search this much good posting every time thank you to show us this on good collection :)
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Posted 755 days ago 4so it’s mean picture can lie.
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Kannan Sanjeevan
Posted 755 days ago 2Great List of retouching tuts. I am a big fan of retouching and love doing it .Thanks for sharing :)
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Posted 755 days ago 1Wow its amazing what you can do with photoshop.
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