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Is Beauty a Myth?

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Articles

• Professional Fashion Retouch

  Society’s beauty ideal isn’t always given at birth but with a high skill in Photoshop it could get achieved. In this tutorial you’ll see how the ‘ugly’ (in society’s beauty ideal eyes) duck gets transformed into a beautiful swan.

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  - Ruud van Doorn

• Powdery Skin

  In this tutorial we will transform a simple portrait into a glamour portrait. I will show you a different way of smoothing skin. We will restore the skin texture and pores without using the dodge and burn technique and add some powdery look. This technique isn’t accurate like D&B but it’s an easy and fast way to correct skin.

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  - Sven Barucha

• Eva

  In this tutorial we will turn simple photography of the model in an interesting form of art. Using adjustment layers, layer masks, colour corection and created especially for this model texture we will add a hint of story to the photograph, hiding flaws and boosting specific areas we will show a different view on beauty of human body.

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  - Benjamin Delacour

• Golden Retouch

  In this tutorial we will transform an ordinary exposed photo into a breathtaking beauty shot. I will show you how to bring your textures to shine. With these techniques you will be able to increase the brilliance of any of your work.

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  - Sven Barucha

• Bike cross Retouch

  With this tutorial we will transform a photo of a cyclist emphasizing more the action and the sharpness. We be learning how to improve the background and the focal point of a photo in movement. With simple techniques.

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  - Debora Tosetti

• Skateboarding Typography

  In this tutorial, we will learn the basic fundamentals about typography and making typographic image just using text.

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  - Faisal Roslie

• Seaglopur

  This tutorial is the Making-Of the Saeglopur image I created to show how I perceive Sigur Ros’ music. It will guide you through the whole process of combining body parts from different stock photos, various elements, colours and texture.

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  - Oana Cambrea

• Elegance

  The following tutorial explains how we can use fractals in developing an interesting fashion oriented photo manipulation. The idea is to use simple Photoshop tools like Free Transform, Hue/Saturation and Color Balance to bring out the final product as shown below. For this project I choosed an image that is provided for free by Katanaz Stock on Deviant Art and some fractals that I generated using a proper software.

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  - Alexandra Vlase

• Old Photo Restoration

  I did the original retouching in Photoshop CS2, but took the screen shots recently in Photoshop CS4. As far as I know, the Clone Stamp Tool is in Photoshop 7 onwards, I’m not sure about previous editions. All work carried out on one layer.

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  - Andrew Morris

• Restoring Memories

  In this tutorial we will take a pretty heavily damaged photograph and restore the image while still maintaining an authentic look. After restoring the photo we will then examine one of the many ways you can color and touch the image up after the restoration process is complete. There are many ways to tackle this project. I will show you one way that I prefer to work on it and hopefully you can add your own twist to it!

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  - Christina Kline

• Don’t Know Much about History (Brush, That Is!)

  I was introduced to the History Brush by my wife, Victoria. There are countless uses for the brush but the basic workflow is similar each time you use the brush.

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  - Hal Schmitt