70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials - Smashing Magazine

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 weve presented earlier:

Skin

• Beautiful Skin⁴
  Not everyone has beautiful skin but you can make it better at least in your photographs.

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• Smooth skin⁶
  How to make a skin like the ones you see in magazines like Playboy.

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• Beauty Retouching⁸
  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 Freckles¹⁰
  Reduce slight freckles naturally without using the Healing Brush. In this Photoshop tutorial, youll learn how to subtract freckles using a layer.

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• Perfect Skin¹²
  How you can get rid of all the acne and pimples and blemishes and scars on your face.

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• Skin looking smooth¹⁴
  During the course of this Photoshop Lunacore shows you how to make skin look smooth.

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• Makeup makeover¹⁶
  How to remove hair in front of someones face, retouch skin and apply makeup using Photoshop.

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• Dark skin bright skin¹⁸
  This tutorial shows you how to make a dark skin bright(er).

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• A chapter of Beauty Retouching²⁰
  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 weight³⁰
  Trimming weight off with the Liquify tool.

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• Digital Nip Tuck³²
  Photoshop is probably the cheapest alternative to plastic surgery possible.

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• Digital Nose Job³⁴
  Simple and easy photo editing technique to give someone a digital nose job.

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• Spare Tires³⁶
  In this tutorial we will see how to remove love handles (or the extra fat around the waist).

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• Smaller Nose³⁸
  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 Bustline⁴⁰
  Learn to make a bustline look huge and comically big.

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Eyes, mouth and teeth

Galleries

Video-Tutorials

Complete Workflow

Artistic Retouch

• Phoenix Hair Effect¹²⁰
  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

Footnotes

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