Photo Retouching - - Where to start

morpheus1870 · #1 12-22-2007, 03:05 PM

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

pellepiano · #2 12-22-2007, 06:05 PM

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=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Swampy · #3 12-22-2007, 06:10 PM

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

teresavigil · #4 12-22-2007, 11:22 PM

hey thanks for the mention on this book-

DCobb · #5 12-23-2007, 01:24 AM

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

woony240 · #6 12-28-2007, 08:25 PM

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!