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.
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5. Smaller Nose
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8. Shine Hair
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10. Skin Retouching
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11. Smooth Skin
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12. Beautify a Face
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14. Beautiful Skin
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15. Apply Eye Makeup
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16. Remove Freckles
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18. Makeup Makeover
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19. Retouching Skin
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20. Glamour Model
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23. Whiten teeth
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28. Teeth Whitening
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32. Hair Masking
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33. Selecting Hair
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34. Paint a Beard
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35. Wrinkle Removal
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36. Add a Smile
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great!
nice post
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
a lot of faces… it take time
useful collection
Nice resources. I’ll try these out.
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 … ?
That’s great, I’m have found this stuff for many years.
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.)
awesome.
thx 4 post this nice tut´s!
wow, now I will have some great time beautifying my sister haha
thanks!
thanks !!!!
You spelled fountain wrong on #24, but overall I found some use for a lot of the tuts.
Very incredible tutorials,……Great resource, thanks
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nice post.keep it up
i tried some
result on http://sumit270.deviantart.com/
And then just make sure that your retouch isn’t so horrible that it ends up on Photoshop Disasters.
Bookmark!
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.
grate collection…
Awesome round up!
WoW, great techniques. I can try with my own images.
Thanks for references.
Very Useful Thanks!
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!
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
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.
Theyre pretty good. #3 is the best, the new colour is amazing.
Conrad Gorny
Freelance Graphic Designer
http://www.conradgorny.com
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
very good.
woooooooooooow!god job
Awesome collection! I just thought, that a long time there weren’t any photo retouching tutorials
Nice Collection. Thanks
Very useful stuff. Thanx.
There are alot missing tutorials.. including not working sites nor reachable files, kinda annoying you know
nice man
thanks
http://www.3dbangla.co.cc
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
Great choices!
Excelent…!!! thanks.
http://www.crea-t.net
Don’t make the teeth too white… or they just look ludicrously fake, like an American smile
nice!
excellent!
tight!
Thumbs up !
It useful for retouch image. greateful thank, bbgdesigneradyaoo!!!
Weeew……!!! OmG… awesome…
u done up brown,dude..
Thank you….
cherz!
thank you very nice