In this episode I will show you a practical example of how to use the second group of tools (Retouching Tools) which I explained on Episode 2 when I made an intro to all the tools on the tools bar. You will learn how to make basic skin retouching and how to remove unwanted elements of an image and also how to apply a few Adjustment Layers. ...

The Selective Color adjustment layer is a Photoshop adjustment that not many people use, or at least not as often. It's very flexible and useful when Hue/Saturation or Color Balance can't help you. In this article I will show you a practice use of this adjustment by correcting the skin color or a person. ...

In this tutorial I will show you a technique that will make digital makeup a lot easier for you. I will show you how to organize your layers so that you can experiment with different makeup colors and change them quickly. Working on a frontal portrait will make things easier for you but in many cases that's not possible. The most important thing is to get the technique, than you will be able to apply digita ...

Teeth whitening is something that many people just do wrong. I've seen so many tutorials that show unnecessary steps to achieve a whitening that hardly looks natural. Remember that portrait retouching is all about balance and making your models look good but as natural as possible. In this tutorial I will show you a quick way of whitening teeth an keep them natural. ...

In this tutorial I will show you 2 ways of retouching the skin of your models. A more realistic technique is using the spot healing brush. Use this technique is you want to keep the texture of the skin. Another way of retouching skin is by using the Surface Blur filter. With this skin retouching technique you will achieve a plastic look but it can still look good in some cases. I will also show you how to c ...

As announced on my newsletter I will start writing body retouching tutorials because I know many of you use Photoshop to enhance your personal photos. I will use both high resolution and low resolution examples because personal photos are usually low resolution and badly exposed and I want to show you how to fix that with Photoshop. These retouching tutorial will cover things like: face cleaning, light corr ...

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a great photo enhancement. The tutorial has two parts, on the first I will show you how to retouch a photo to make it look better and on the second part we will deal with the abstract stuff. ...