Ok I'm new to the site and to retouching in general however I have used photoshop for some time. Where would be the best place to start to learn simple retouching of face/portrait e.g what things would i do and what order....

1)hide blemishes
2) whiten teeth etc...

and are there any simple to follow tutroials you guys could point me to.

thanks all

You can start by looking at the tutorials here, there are lots of them written already.Try the serach function.

1 Use the Healing Brush
2 Paint with white on a empty layer on top of the original and set blend mode to soft light. Then change opacity to taste.

If you are curious about a tool, a simple trick is to just google it ... Like ....

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=sv-se&q=healing+brush+%2Bphotoshop&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

The Retouch "Bible" is Katrin Eisman's book on Restoration. She is The Queen!

hey thanks for the mention on this book-

Greetings-

Another book that you might like to take a look at is called:

DIGITAL RESTORATION FROM START TO FINISH. As the title implies this book is directed more towards restoration rather than retouching.

by Ctein (pronounced: kuh-TINE)

ISBN; 0-240-80814-2

dc

Hi, I'm new too. Just got a tablet for Christmas! So far, I like watching the tutorials on YouTube. There are some good ones on there, as a visual person I feel like I have learned a lot on there. I just joined this site today, so I'm going to check out the tutorials on here too!