40 Cool Beauty Amplifying Photoshop Effects

Oct 3rd in Web Roundups by Danny Outlaw

Beauty retouching is one of the most sought-after skills in Photoshop arts today. The techniques here are used not only on magazine covers, but in advertising campaigns, digital artwork and professional photography. Here are 40 excellent tutorials to help you add this skill to your arsenal.

Author: Danny Outlaw

Danny Outlaw runs the Outlaw Design Blog.

Note: We know that there are plenty of good arguments against the use of beauty retouching. If you find these techniques objectionable, we encourage you to think about their potential for use in your digital art, whether you want to render a killer with blood-red irises or a Goddess with glowing skin.

Either way, remember that you have ultimate control over how you choose to use your Photoshop skills, and in what context you put these effects into practice.

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  1. hizhen October 3rd

    great!


  2. alberto October 3rd

    nice post


  3. vijay karthik.v October 3rd

    nice one, should have included some advanced methods too, moving light is something I am sure every one tries, but a nice tutorial on the same is hard to find,
    nice work on the whole


  4. macias October 3rd

    a lot of faces… it take time :) useful collection


  5. Ariful Alam Khan October 3rd

    Nice resources. I’ll try these out.


  6. Ryan October 3rd

    This post looks really familiar. Almost like it is a repost, but I think another blog I watch did the same thing not to long ago … ?


  7. Nightmare October 3rd

    That’s great, I’m have found this stuff for many years.


  8. Daniel October 3rd

    You missed the BEST beauty tutorial ever!

    http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-tutorials/pst/529/Improvement-using-symmetry.html

    (okay maybe not the best, but the funniest.)


  9. diesel October 3rd

    awesome.


  10. reeno kurdistani October 3rd

    thx 4 post this nice tut´s!


  11. hiperkarma October 3rd

    wow, now I will have some great time beautifying my sister haha
    thanks! :D


  12. alireza October 3rd

    thanks !!!!


  13. Jeffrey October 3rd

    You spelled fountain wrong on #24, but overall I found some use for a lot of the tuts.


  14. loswl October 3rd

    Very incredible tutorials,……Great resource, thanks :o)


  15. NaldzGraphics October 3rd

    nice post.keep it up


  16. sumit October 3rd

    i tried some

    result on http://sumit270.deviantart.com/


  17. Stacy October 4th

    And then just make sure that your retouch isn’t so horrible that it ends up on Photoshop Disasters.


  18. kidlizard October 4th

    Bookmark!


  19. rob christianson October 4th

    Great tips that will surely come in useful. On the flip side, it only helps us mis-represent natural beauty and feeds the ‘anti-photoshop’ campaign when it comes to photo retouching.

    Remember, we are the keepers of a great power. Use it wisely. ;)


  20. sachin khobragade October 4th

    grate collection…


  21. Lawrence77 October 4th

    Awesome round up! :)

    :D LAWRENCE :D


  22. Roshan October 4th

    WoW, great techniques. I can try with my own images. :)
    Thanks for references.


  23. Aaron Irizarry October 4th

    Very Useful Thanks!


  24. Lubes October 4th

    Fantastic roundup. Retouching is something I need lots of work on.

    Regarding the whole “mis-representation of natural beauty” comment which I just KNEW someone was going to make; I don’t buy into that or anything equal to the ridiculous “Dove campaign for real beauty” and their ilk.

    I’m a young woman, and I don’t need or want to see unattractive people on billboards or advertisements. It’s a fantasy, and that’s what it’s supposed to be, not some social movement. Being over-photoshopped is only bad when it looks ugly, otherwise, photoshop on!


  25. James Qu October 4th

    Very imformative. Thanks for posting them.
    though I do prefer natural beauty, i guess we just have to compromise sometimes, to the power of photoshopping


  26. Momatoes October 5th

    Wow, this is a LOT of resources. Thanks for the links, and I guess retouching will keep me busy this weekend. :-p

    On another side, it gets pretty disturbing to see how much outward beauty and perfection is overly emphasized today. It’s OK to use Photoshop to enhance a person’s beauty, but it can undermine the importance of inner beauty.

    Just a thought. :)


  27. Conrad Gorny October 5th

    Theyre pretty good. #3 is the best, the new colour is amazing.

    Conrad Gorny
    Freelance Graphic Designer
    http://www.conradgorny.com


  28. Manuel Minino October 5th

    awesome collection.. already knew some of those tutorials.. some great, some good-not-great… i think the secret is in the way u mix and use the techniques…

    btw You can start a fashion retouching studio after you graduate from this 40 beauty MODIFYING psd effects (not necessary “amplifying”, sometimes the results are riduculously ugly)

    @Daniel: LOOOOOL!! the best ever!! LOL


  29. ali October 5th

    very good.
    woooooooooooow!god job


  30. Dainis Graveris October 6th

    Awesome collection! I just thought, that a long time there weren’t any photo retouching tutorials :)


  31. insic October 6th

    Nice Collection. Thanks


  32. Ruth Lopez October 6th

    Very useful stuff. Thanx.


  33. hiperkarma October 7th

    There are alot missing tutorials.. including not working sites nor reachable files, kinda annoying you know


  34. makku October 9th

    nice man

    thanks

    http://www.3dbangla.co.cc


  35. Dewald Hein October 9th

    Hey!
    Thank you so much for listing my tutorial on changing the colour of a persons eyes!

    http://psdtutsarticles.s3.amazonaws.com/linkb_40beaty/30.jpg


  36. Howard Pinsky October 10th

    Great choices!


  37. Henry October 14th

    Excelent…!!! thanks.
    http://www.crea-t.net


  38. Steve November 3rd

    Don’t make the teeth too white… or they just look ludicrously fake, like an American smile :D


  39. Luis November 3rd

    nice!
    excellent!
    tight!


  40. aidan December 3rd

    Thumbs up !


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