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From SmashingMagazine: 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 at their site 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.

Here are a couple of highlights… head to SmashingMagazine’s article for the full list.

• Beautiful Skin
  Not everyone has beautiful skin but you can make it better – at least in your photographs.
• Color hair locks
  Changing hair color in just few minutes.
• Spare Tires
  In this tutorial we will see how to remove love handles (or the extra fat around the waist).
• Eliminate Cellulite
  In this tutorial you can learn how to eliminate a person’s cellulite.
• Enhancing Iris Color
  It is said that the eyes are windows into the soul. This tutorial details a simple yet powerful technique for altering eye color using basic Photoshop tools.
• The art of retouching
  Glenn Feron was born, then found art and was born again.
• Breast Enlarge
  This tutorial shows you how to enlarge a breast.
• Phoenix Hair Effect
  With some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photos with this flaming hair tutorial.

So that’s about one screenshot from each of the sections outlined by SmashingMag…. I think they article they present can be of a serious use to professional graphic designers or even just casual Photoshop users who want to increase their skills. Check out the full article at SmashingMagazine.

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