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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.
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.
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.
Video tutorial – learn how to smoothen skin tones, while retaining skin detail and texture using High Pass filter.
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.
Learn how to ably use Spot Healing Brush Tool to remove blemishes and clear up ugly spot.
Litte bit more explained and advanced use of default retouching tools – Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, Gaussian 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.
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.
This video tutorial shows you one way to address reflective make-up on a model or in a portrait.
In this tutorial you’llbe demonstrated the level of editing that goes into removing any discrepancies in the skin.
See some of the common retouching tools in action.
Another tutorial to see retouching in action and learn something you didn’t quote understand from writen tutorials.
Learn not just how to change hair color, but also how to remove unwanted strands, work with shadows and highlights, boost image vividness.
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.
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.
In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn a quick and easy way to straighten crooked photos.
In this tutorial you’re going to learn how incredibly easy it is to give someone a digital nose job.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use digital painting with a drawing tablet to create the illusion of lip gloss on bare lips.
Learn how to change the shape of nose, chin, lips, eyes etc using Warp and Liquify Tool.
Learn how to quickly whiten teeth in Photoshop in just a couple of minutes.
Learn how to use Liquify Tool to remove overwightusing Photoshop.
Really easy tutorial showing you how to get rid of the needless make up using just Brush Tool.
Learn how to easily apply make up to eyes. You can use this technique to other face parts as well.
Learn how to hightlight eyes, apply a bit of make up to make them look beautiful, not hyperbolic.
Learn how tu use Adjustment Layers, Dodge and Burn Tool to achieve similar result if you would used something like Healing Brush Tool.
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.
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.
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.
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.
See how all of the Healing Toolswork.
Learn how to use basic Photoshop Adjustments to make your photos look more professional.
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.
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
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.
This is a tutorial on how to use the selective color adjustment layer in photoshop to optimize colors and tones in your photos.
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.
Learn really basic Adjustment Layer techniques to achieve good looking result.
A video tutorial on how to retouch landscape photos; includes information on brightness adjustment, sharpening, noise reduction, proper flattening, and artifact removal.
Learn how tu use Smart SHarpen Filter and get the effect done with blending modes.
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
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.
A tutorial showing you how to add backgrounds and textures to your existing images using Color Range and Layer Masks.
Watch step by step videohow to use channels to extract difficult image areas like hair.
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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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 14:46
Thanks for the great tutorials!
It’s exactly what we are doing in our own company!
Will bookmark this site.
Thanks again.
Thursday, March 1st, 2012 13:20
I’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.
Friday, January 20th, 2012 10:51
Thanks 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.
Monday, January 9th, 2012 21:48
Nice techniques. Been using Photoshop for 7 years now and learn something new pretty much every day.
Saturday, October 15th, 2011 18:43
Wow nice!! amazing what you can do with photoshop and in the reach of everyone
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 15:51
Love it!! Time to crack on with alll these old photos I have and see what I can do!
Sunday, September 4th, 2011 11:08
Wonderful posting really helpful to us thank you very much for share.
Thursday, December 9th, 2010 15:49
This is a great collection of tutorials. Thanks for sharing.
Friday, May 7th, 2010 18:34
I will be passing this entry along to my friends who love photography. It’s always get to get tips. Thanks!
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 11:33
wow very nice article. We really appreciate it. Thanks for sharing with us..
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 08:57
Really nice collection, with a lot of helpful photoshop-tutorials. Thx for sharing!
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 17:03
hmm this is really nice post 1stwebdesigner….i really search this much good posting every time thank you to show us this on good collection :)
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 07:40
awesome article you have shared with us. It will really helpful the person who want learn web and graphics design. I will bookmark your article for future reference.
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 04:36
Great List of retouching tuts. I am a big fan of retouching and love doing it .Thanks for sharing :)
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010 02:13
Wow its amazing what you can do with photoshop.
CSS-Design
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 08:57
Really nice collection, with a lot of helpful photoshop-tutorials. Thx for sharing!
ericpond
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 11:33
wow very nice article. We really appreciate it. Thanks for sharing with us..
w3wall
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 17:03
hmm this is really nice post 1stwebdesigner….i really search this much good posting every time thank you to show us this on good collection :)
John Smith
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 07:40
awesome article you have shared with us. It will really helpful the person who want learn web and graphics design. I will bookmark your article for future reference.
vpscage
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 08:40
so it’s mean picture can lie.
Kannan Sanjeevan
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 04:36
Great List of retouching tuts. I am a big fan of retouching and love doing it .Thanks for sharing :)
Christy
Friday, May 7th, 2010 18:34
I will be passing this entry along to my friends who love photography. It’s always get to get tips. Thanks!
Brett Widmann
Thursday, December 9th, 2010 15:49
This is a great collection of tutorials. Thanks for sharing.
Stan
Thursday, March 1st, 2012 13:20
I’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.
Alphonso
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 14:46
Thanks for the great tutorials!
It’s exactly what we are doing in our own company!
Will bookmark this site.
Thanks again.
Marion
Friday, January 20th, 2012 10:51
Thanks 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.
Glen
Monday, January 9th, 2012 21:48
Nice techniques. Been using Photoshop for 7 years now and learn something new pretty much every day.
Habib Zaman
Sunday, September 4th, 2011 11:08
Wonderful posting really helpful to us thank you very much for share.
Ryan Purdham
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 15:51
Love it!! Time to crack on with alll these old photos I have and see what I can do!
Ryan Purdham
Saturday, October 15th, 2011 18:43
Wow nice!! amazing what you can do with photoshop and in the reach of everyone