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A Working Retoucher's Walkthrough: Beauty Retouching in Photoshop from Scratch
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A Working Retoucher's Walkthrough: Beauty Retouching in Photoshop from Scratch

Early in my retouching career, a client looked at a set of beauty edits I’d delivered and said the skin looked “like plastic.” She wasn’t wrong. I’d been smoothing and softening without any real understanding of light and shadow on a face, and the results showed it. What I was missing wasn’t a better tool. It was a proper workflow that treated the face as a three-dimensional thing with real tonal structure.

Mastering Urban Portrait Retouching: A Complete Guide to the Bir Hakeim Bridge Technique
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Mastering Urban Portrait Retouching: A Complete Guide to the Bir Hakeim Bridge Technique

Mastering Urban Portrait Retouching: A Complete Guide to the Bir Hakeim Bridge Technique I’ve always found that some of the most transformative retouching lessons come from real-world shooting scenarios—especially when we’re working with the challenging lighting and composition that urban environments throw at us. In this excellent tutorial, Serge Ramelli shows us how to take a portrait shot at the iconic Bir Hakeim Bridge in Paris and transform it into a polished, professional image using systematic retouching and beauty editing techniques.