There are lots of portrait retouching techniques out there and I will show you one of them. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a smooth mate and textured skin on portraits and make them more… artistic if you will.

The quality of the final result also depends on the quality of the photo you are using.

Here is the PSD file of a retouch that I made. I though maybe somebody is interested on how I made it so I decided to upload the PSD file. The file is 47 mb because the resolution is quite high. I made all the makeup on the face so I hope its not very wrong or anything like that cause I don’t know what kind of colors girls use when they makeup lol. I just used something that matched [...]

When editing photos I think the number 1 problem I have is getting that skin texture back after doing a bunch of adjustments to faces. Really there is only a couple ways around it: bringing back the old photo to get back the organic textures or recreating the textures using filters or resources.

Now you can create realistic human skin face textures for anything.  You can also use them for touching up photos that might have gotten a bit flat after [...]

In this first tutorial, I’ll go over the basics on how I made the top graphic (header) for my blog www.mentalmirage.com . We’ll be working with masks, blending modes, the LucisArt plugin, color correction, levels, and brushes.

A basic understanding of Photoshop is needed to follow this tutorial.