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  • 5 Really Easy, yet Essential Photo Retouch Techniques for Photoshop Beginners

    Posted on November 9th, 2009 under Basics, Photo Effect

  • 5 Really Easy, yet Essential Photo Retouch Techniques for Photoshop Beginners

    In this tutorial, I will show you 5 very simple, however very important techniques for Photoshop beginners when it comes to photo retouch. You will discover how easy it is to add more contrast and depths to the image to make it look better. This tutorial is really simple but effective, Have a try!

    We will take a random image and apply those 5 techniques to enhance the overall effect of the photo. Here is a summary of the five topics we will cover in this tutorial:

    1. Remove Black Spots with Spot Healing Brush
    2. Make Your Eyes Look More Obvious
    3. Use Surface Blur to Smooth Skin, instead of Gaussian Blur
    4. Make Her Lips Look Even More Delicious
    5. Add Colour Depth and Lighting Contrast to Hair

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