Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. No matter how much experience you have with Photoshop there is probably more that you can learn in these areas. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups.
Also see 60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements at DesignM.ag.
Skin:
Airbrushing - Natural Smooth Skin
Really Cool Digital Make Up in Photoshop in 10 Minutes
Soften Skin with Surface Blur (video)
Photo Retouching - Skin Photoshop Tutorial
Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching
Reducing 5 O’Clock Shadow and Beard Stubble in Photoshop
Easily Smooth and Soften Skin in a Photo
Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching
Eyes:
Changing the Eye Color of Your Photograph
Teeth:
How to Whiten and Brighten Teeth in Photoshop
Whitening Teeth the Professional Way
Hair:
Change Hair Color in Photoshop
Nose:
Easy Digital Nose Job in Photoshop
Body:
Colors:
Advanced Color Correction Tutorial that Will Knock Your Socks Off
Change the Color of Something in a Photo
Coloring and Old, Black and White Photo
Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments
Fix Tone and Color with Levels in Photoshop
Lighting:
Simple Focused Lighting Effect in Photoshop
General Photo Editing:
Make Your Amateur Photos More Professional
Non-Destructive Dodge and Burn in Photoshop
How to Straigten Crooked Photos
Selective Focus and Tilt Shift
For more Photoshop tutorials, please see:
January 13th, 2009
nice list but there should be a line drawn for using photoshop. sometimes, photoshop makes inner beauty inferior to physical beauty.
January 13th, 2009
How about picking out the good stuff for us? Several of these examples look really good, but some of the skin enhancements look way too blurry or overdone, many effects look unnatural, and the waist-thinning one is freakish.
January 13th, 2009
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January 13th, 2009
Mariella,
I think the technique in the waist-thinning tutorial could be applied in a way that was more realistic (i.e. not taking so much off the sides).
January 13th, 2009
great list! an epic for PS retouching
January 13th, 2009
Please, don’t remove freckles!!! I love girls with freckles!!! Talk about adorable.
January 13th, 2009
Excellent stuff, lots of good reference points - thankyou.
One other thing I’d like to see here: photgraphing and optimising shots of black people. I recently visited some friends in The Gambia and had to take a few portrait shots with all the problems of wide contrast. I’m left with some noisy shots that I need to make the best of, some insight here would be very useful.
I realise ‘everyone is the same underneath’, but I really think that more tutorials should acknowledge that very dark skin requires some different considerations.
January 13th, 2009
useful nice list thanks..
January 13th, 2009
I don’t think all of those tutorials are pretty realistic. and sometimes it’s better to take more effort in taking the picture than in retouching it in photoshop.
January 13th, 2009
Adris,
I agree that taking a better picture in the first place is the best option, but many times designers don’t have a choice here. A designer may be forced to work with specific pictures, in which case, some touch-ups can make a big difference.
Mike,
Good point. There aren’t many tutorials for working with darker skin.
January 13th, 2009
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January 13th, 2009
What a fantastic list, lots of work to put together.
Thanks for posting.
January 13th, 2009
@Adris: You’re right, some of them are pretty bad. But, I have had to work with some really, really bad photos - and tutorials like these have always helped me make the best out of a bad photo.
Thanks for the list Vandely! There’re some here I’ve actually never seen before.
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January 13th, 2009
Thanks for mentioning my tutorial!
This i a great list. I discovered some cool sites!
Yanik
January 14th, 2009
[...] 60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups | Vandelay Design Blog - Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. No matter how much experience you have with Photoshop there is probably more that you can learn in these areas. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups. Also see 60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements at DesignM.ag. Skin: Airbrushing - Natural Smooth Skin [...]
January 14th, 2009
I have never seen a collection of links like this with so many unworthy examples. Disappointing from what is usually a quality source.
January 14th, 2009
Stacy,
Sorry you’re not happy with the quality. Honestly, the response to this list has been mixed, so I’ll have to take that into consideration for the future. Thanks for your honest but respectful feedback.
January 14th, 2009
photoshopped!
January 14th, 2009
@Brian
I agree! Freckles are great, don’t be ashamed of freckles
and don’t get rid of them please!
In general on the list, i’m looking forwards to trying some of these out. I think it takes a little bit of courage to throw your expertise out on the net for critisms, so I’m always intregued to see whats offering. Thanks!
January 14th, 2009
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January 14th, 2009
Excellent tuts wow!! :oo
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January 15th, 2009
Wow Im so impressed with what I have just seen. I know photoshop is good but wooow!
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January 16th, 2009
wowowieeee those photos are really great… with the tecnology we have right now eveything is possible… from the simpliest to the most hard photos to edit, redesign and so much more.
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January 18th, 2009
Isn’t the goal of photo touch-ups to NOT look like anything has been touched up? Pretty much every one of these photos have been noticeably touched up (even if the “before” wasn’t there for reference).
January 18th, 2009
Wow man really nice work.
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January 19th, 2009
A very good collection of tutorials! Celebrities must hate those “aging” images!
January 20th, 2009
Wow! Amazing. Photoshop is a great mage.
I have to necessarily try the tutorials…
January 21st, 2009
Awesome..!Photoshop is really good..^_^
January 21st, 2009
@Vandelay Design
you’re right. designers often have to deal with bad pictures. and I’m also thankful for tutorial-lists like yours that help us eliminate mistakes of the photographers. I just wanted to say that at a first glance I have seen better tutorials than some of the ones you listed. not all, only some. but keep up the good work. you’re doing a great job here.
January 25th, 2009
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January 27th, 2009
Wow! thank u! I LOVE to retouch photographies
Nice tips
January 28th, 2009
I like this, it helps me a a lot with my photography (which is amiture at best).
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February 5th, 2009
These tutorials are great - just what the (design) doctor ordered! Thanks.
February 9th, 2009
These are awesome touchups which can help designers give professional look to images.
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February 14th, 2009
Thank you for this great post!
April 15th, 2009
The topic is quite trendy in the net right now. What do you pay attention to when choosing what to write ?
April 16th, 2009
I agree that many of these are a bit overdone. The best photoshopping is the kind you don’t notice!
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May 5th, 2009
As an English teacher I can tell what it means to students who have freckles to go through high schools. To them I only can say do not be ashamed!
May 15th, 2009
The pictures are great. I love your site! Naturally smooth skin is God’s gift.
May 16th, 2009
These photos are great! I wonder which photoshop has been used?
May 18th, 2009
I am certain adope photoshop 7. Especially the breast size aumentation picture.
May 26th, 2009
wow, these pictures in non-distructive dodge and burn seem like an artistic work. I will try this photoshop 7 again.
May 27th, 2009
If you plan to do a new list it would be great to see some tutorials for restoring old and damaged photos - I’ve got some photos from 1909 to retouch and it is hard to know where to start!
May 30th, 2009
I could use a tutorial on restoring old pictures as well.
Do you happen to know any program for that?
June 6th, 2009
Great tutorial about photoshop. Aging is quite frustrating ,but with these images neither plastic surgen can compete:)
June 8th, 2009
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June 10th, 2009
What a great way to build self-esteem. You do not have to work on yourself only on your pictures.
June 14th, 2009
What a big collection of PS tutorials. It is not so hard to learn PS if you have great tutorials at. Thank you!
June 18th, 2009
Nice postings! I will definitely start learning about photoshop as it can really enhance the quality of the picture.
June 18th, 2009
I really like the photo of “selective foto and tilt shift”. I was in Vegas and took a very similar picute. At that time I did not know about this tool so it did’not turn out to be so fantastic.
June 29th, 2009
Wow! Great stuff, these tutorials are really useful! I’m bookmarking and making good use of this!