Beauty retouching is one of the most sought-after skills in Photoshop arts today. The techniques here are used not only on magazine covers, but in advertising campaigns, digital artwork and professional photography. Here are 40 excellent tutorials to help you add this skill to your arsenal.
Note: We know that there are plenty of good arguments against the use of beauty retouching. If you find these techniques objectionable, we encourage you to think about their potential for use in your digital art, whether you want to render a killer with blood-red irises or a Goddess with glowing skin.
Either way, remember that you have ultimate control over how you choose to use your Photoshop skills, and in what context you put these effects into practice.
- 1. Thicker Eyelashes
- 2. Whiten Teeth and Eyes
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3. Changing the Iris Color
- 4. Pure Perfection
- 5. Smaller Nose
- 6. Digital Nip Tuck
- 7. Recolor Hair and Clothes
- 8. Shine Hair
- 9. Change Hair Color
- 10. Skin Retouching
- 11. Smooth Skin
- 12. Beautify a Face
- 13. Beauty Retouching
- 14. Beautiful Skin
- 15. Apply Eye Makeup
- 16. Remove Freckles
- 17. How to Get Perfect Skin
- 18. Makeup Makeover
- 19. Retouching Skin
- 20. Glamour Model
- 21. Professional Retouching
- 22. Change Hair Color
- 23. Whiten teeth
- 24. Fountian of Youth
- 25. Cosmetic Tutorial
- 26. Recolor Clothing to Match Skin-tone
- 27. Making Dark Hair Blonde
- 28. Teeth Whitening
- 29. Skin Color Adjustments
- 30. Change the Color of an Eye
- 31. Warp Tool for Faces
- 32. Hair Masking
- 33. Selecting Hair
- 34. Paint a Beard
- 35. Wrinkle Removal
- 36. Add a Smile
- 37. Tone Down Highlights
- 38. Using the Unsharp Mask
- 39. Look 10 years Younger
- 40. 5 Second Eye Effect
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( ADD YOURS )hizhen October 3rd
great!
( )alberto October 3rd
nice post
( )vijay karthik.v October 3rd
nice one, should have included some advanced methods too, moving light is something I am sure every one tries, but a nice tutorial on the same is hard to find,
( )nice work on the whole
macias October 3rd
a lot of faces… it take time
useful collection
( )Ariful Alam Khan October 3rd
Nice resources. I’ll try these out.
( )Ryan October 3rd
This post looks really familiar. Almost like it is a repost, but I think another blog I watch did the same thing not to long ago … ?
( )Nightmare October 3rd
That’s great, I’m have found this stuff for many years.
( )Daniel October 3rd
You missed the BEST beauty tutorial ever!
http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-tutorials/pst/529/Improvement-using-symmetry.html
(okay maybe not the best, but the funniest.)
( )diesel October 3rd
awesome.
( )reeno kurdistani October 3rd
thx 4 post this nice tut´s!
( )hiperkarma October 3rd
wow, now I will have some great time beautifying my sister haha
( )thanks!
alireza October 3rd
thanks !!!!
( )Jeffrey October 3rd
You spelled fountain wrong on #24, but overall I found some use for a lot of the tuts.
( )loswl October 3rd
Very incredible tutorials,……Great resource, thanks :o)
( )NaldzGraphics October 3rd
nice post.keep it up
( )sumit October 3rd
i tried some
result on http://sumit270.deviantart.com/
( )Stacy October 4th
And then just make sure that your retouch isn’t so horrible that it ends up on Photoshop Disasters.
( )kidlizard October 4th
Bookmark!
( )rob christianson October 4th
Great tips that will surely come in useful. On the flip side, it only helps us mis-represent natural beauty and feeds the ‘anti-photoshop’ campaign when it comes to photo retouching.
Remember, we are the keepers of a great power. Use it wisely.
( )sachin khobragade October 4th
grate collection…
( )Lawrence77 October 4th
Awesome round up!
LAWRENCE 
( )Roshan October 4th
WoW, great techniques. I can try with my own images.
( )Thanks for references.
Aaron Irizarry October 4th
Very Useful Thanks!
( )Lubes October 4th
Fantastic roundup. Retouching is something I need lots of work on.
Regarding the whole “mis-representation of natural beauty” comment which I just KNEW someone was going to make; I don’t buy into that or anything equal to the ridiculous “Dove campaign for real beauty” and their ilk.
I’m a young woman, and I don’t need or want to see unattractive people on billboards or advertisements. It’s a fantasy, and that’s what it’s supposed to be, not some social movement. Being over-photoshopped is only bad when it looks ugly, otherwise, photoshop on!
( )James Qu October 4th
Very imformative. Thanks for posting them.
( )though I do prefer natural beauty, i guess we just have to compromise sometimes, to the power of photoshopping
Momatoes October 5th
Wow, this is a LOT of resources. Thanks for the links, and I guess retouching will keep me busy this weekend. :-p
On another side, it gets pretty disturbing to see how much outward beauty and perfection is overly emphasized today. It’s OK to use Photoshop to enhance a person’s beauty, but it can undermine the importance of inner beauty.
Just a thought.
( )Conrad Gorny October 5th
Theyre pretty good. #3 is the best, the new colour is amazing.
Conrad Gorny
( )Freelance Graphic Designer
http://www.conradgorny.com
Manuel Minino October 5th
awesome collection.. already knew some of those tutorials.. some great, some good-not-great… i think the secret is in the way u mix and use the techniques…
btw You can start a fashion retouching studio after you graduate from this 40 beauty MODIFYING psd effects (not necessary “amplifying”, sometimes the results are riduculously ugly)
@Daniel: LOOOOOL!! the best ever!! LOL
( )ali October 5th
very good.
( )woooooooooooow!god job
Dainis Graveris October 6th
Awesome collection! I just thought, that a long time there weren’t any photo retouching tutorials
( )insic October 6th
Nice Collection. Thanks
( )Ruth Lopez October 6th
Very useful stuff. Thanx.
( )hiperkarma October 7th
There are alot missing tutorials.. including not working sites nor reachable files, kinda annoying you know
( )makku October 9th
nice man
thanks
http://www.3dbangla.co.cc
( )Dewald Hein October 9th
Hey!
Thank you so much for listing my tutorial on changing the colour of a persons eyes!
http://psdtutsarticles.s3.amazonaws.com/linkb_40beaty/30.jpg
( )Howard Pinsky October 10th
Great choices!
( )Henry October 14th
Excelent…!!! thanks.
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Steve November 3rd
Don’t make the teeth too white… or they just look ludicrously fake, like an American smile
( )Luis November 3rd
nice!
( )excellent!
tight!
aidan December 3rd
Thumbs up !
( )choth tit December 20th
It useful for retouch image. greateful thank, bbgdesigneradyaoo!!!
( )Marisa February 19th
Weeew……!!! OmG… awesome…
u done up brown,dude..
Thank you….
cherz!
( )ehsan April 22nd
thank you very nice
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