Beauty Retouching in Photoshop

Description: Let's do some Beauty Retouching in Photoshop . Lights, camera, action. Time to turn the glitz on and spin raw beauty into pure perfection. Take a peek at Tinsel Town's newest plastic surgeon. Watch this glittery gal perform virtual nose jobs, eye-lifts, and collagen injections right before your very eyes. Put on your shiny, bright lab coat and accompany her on her rounds. Get geared up to gain your Ph.D. in pretty pixels...beware flawless faces ahead!

Reality Retouching

Reality retouching should be invisible. Your mission is to be as stealthy as possible—get in and out without being detected. You will probably not receive any credit for this mission because nobody's supposed to know about it. You, your client, and your team (if any) are the only ones who will receive the quiet satisfaction of a job well done.

For the first example, consider an image that was designed as a point of purchase (POP) display for Reflexxions. As is typical with makeup companies, the client wants the girl in the display to look as natural as possible, while still being "perfect"—definitely a job for reality retouching.

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Make a Realistic Tattoo

Description: Lastly i was reading a tutorial on making a realistic tattoo and i was a great one. But i forgot the url. Just today i came across this great photoshop tutorial on making a realistic tattoo. It is also as great as i was mentioning. This tattoo tutorial is from Psdtuts.com. Written by Arik. and he says:

There are lots of tutorials on the web that claim to achieve a realistic tattoo effect. Usually these tutorials instruct the user to import an image they want to use as a tattoo and to set it to overlay. Out of experience I can say that this does NOT look like a tattoo. It looks like...well...an overlayed image.

In this tutorial I will be demonstrating an advanced technique to achieve a realistic tattoo. We will be using masks, adjustment layers, displacement maps and several brushing skills will be applied.

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