This extended list of 70 Beauty Retouching Tutorials is just what you need if you want to make it in the big modern phony world of magazine photography. After you’ve waltzed through this lot you’ll be able to make Eddie Murphy look like Mary Poppins. Come to think of it…
Anyway one of the interesting titbits in amongst all this is the GirlPower Retouching Demo, which is a great way to introduce a naive friend to the world of cover girl fakery.
Of course, beauty-retouching is a quite deceptive art. The masters of Photoshop create illusions which are hard to tell apart — unless you have both a genuine photo and the final result in Photoshop and can directly compare them. In fact, every day we consume perfectly retouched stars and models online and offline which just look different in the real life. Still, it is not the reason to avoid learning advanced Photoshop techniques for beauty-retouching and study examples of how it is done in practice. The list below presents both image-tutorials as well as video-tutorials. Most examples have a before-vs.-after-comparison and you can follow the modifications with Photoshop step-by-step.