Photoshop book
I have recently started getting more into photoshop (for more then just basic color correcting and photo manipulation, and I would really like to learn more about like smoothing facial skin textures and stuff. Essentially, I want a book that teaches me how to make my models look hotter. Any one have a good book they can recommend? I've seen some on amazon, but I figured this was a good place to start. I can't be the only one looking!
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There's TONS of tutorials online:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=photoshop%3A+skin+retouching&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2
Just a few:
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/quick_skin_tone_retouching_in_photoshop.html
http://lifehacker.com/software/photoshop/photoshop-tip-retouching-skin-178405.php
http://tutorialblog.org/photo-retouching-skin/
As you know a lot about photoshop is working with it constantly (remember learning clipping paths?! he he) and there's always at least 3 ways to do something in the app.
I have done quite a bit of model retouching and something that really helps is the use of 'color' layers to add color to existing features: Lips and the 'ruddy' areas of the skin for example; things that get dulled in the digital process (jpg files mostly, but sometimes in raw files or bad lighting).
Hope that helps!
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