Par Dirk Metzmacher

Les retouches concernant la beauté ou l’esthétique d’une personne sont probablement les plus populaires et les plus demandées dans les domaines d’application d’Adobe Photoshop . Il y a deux raisons simples pour cela.

Tout d’abord, Photoshop offre une variété d’outils avancés pour lisser la peau ou les cheveux, des outils puissants pour améliorer les proportions  physiques ou mettre l’accent sur quelques détails.

Et d’autre part, si vous avez une certaine expérience avec Photoshop, il est facile d’apprendre les bases et ainsi rapidement produire de très beaux et impressionnants résultats.

Bien sûr, la retouche esthétique est un art tout à fait trompeur. Les pros de Photoshop peuvent créer des illusions qui sont difficiles à deviner – à moins que vous possédiez à la fois la photo originale et le résultat final dans Photoshop .

Source : Dirk Metzmacher est un professionnel des retouches sur Photoshop. Il tient un blog (en allemand).

Voici quelques tutoriaux pour vous familiariser avec les retouches, les mêmes que les pros de photoshop utilisent.

La liste ci-dessous présente à la fois l’image didactique ainsi que la vidéo-tutorial. La plupart des exemples ont un « avant » et un « après » de manière à pouvoir comparer et suivre les modifications avec Photoshop, étape par étape.

Vous pouvez aussi jeter un coup d’oeil sur cette sélection préalable :

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• Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects

Voilà le show va démarrer !

PEAU

• Beautiful Skin
• Not everyone has beautiful skin but you can make it better – at least in your photographs.



• Smooth skin ou comment faire une peau de « bébé »

• Beauty Retouching : Beauty retouching is one of the most demanding parts of photo manipulation. The main trick for your results to be astonishing is patience.



• Remove Freckles
  Reduce slight freckles naturally without using the Healing Brush. In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to subtract freckles using a layer.



• Perfect Skin
  How you can get rid of all the acne and pimples and blemishes and scars on your face.



• Skin looking smooth
  During the course of this Photoshop Lunacore shows you how to make skin look smooth.



• Makeup makeover
  How to remove hair in front of someone’s face, retouch skin and apply makeup using Photoshop.



• Dark skin – bright skin
  This tutorial shows you how to make a dark skin bright(er).



• A chapter of Beauty Retouching
  A free sample chapter of “Skin”, a Photoshop Retouching Book by Lee Varis about Beauty Retouching.

Cheveux

• Changing Hair Color
  How to change hair color.



• Shining hair
  Creating shining hair like shown in shampoo ads.



• Removing Hair Roots
  A fairly straight-forward method for removing hair roots that takes mere seconds to accomplish.



• Color hair locks
  Changing hair color in just few minutes.

Corps, visage, détails

• Trimming weight
  Trimming weight off with the Liquify tool.



• Digital Nip Tuck
  Photoshop is probably the cheapest alternative to plastic surgery possible.



• Digital Nose Job
  Simple and easy photo editing technique to give someone a digital nose job.



• Spare Tires
  In this tutorial we will see how to remove love handles (or the extra fat around the waist).



• Smaller Nose
  This tutorial will walk you through the steps for reducing the size of a nose in a photograph using Photoshop.



• Bigger Bustline
  Learn to make a bustline look huge and comically big.

Bouche, yeux, dents…

• Enhancing Iris Color
  It is said that the eyes are windows into the soul. This tutorial details a simple yet powerful technique for altering eye color using basic Photoshop tools.



• Red Eye Tool
  This photoshop tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop CS2’s Red Eye tool in a non-destructive way.



• Whitening Teeth & Eyes
  Some methods to make natural elements white or whiter.



• Make eyelashes thicker
  Learn how to make eyelashes thicker.



• Apply Eye Make-up
  This photoshop tutorial will show you how you can add eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara to any model easily.



• Eyebrow Piercing
  This tutorial shows you how to add an eyebrow piercing to a photo.



• Photoshop dentist
  Everybody can be a good dentist – with Photoshop.



• Whitening Teeth
  Another way to make whiter teeth with Adjustment Layer.

Galeries

• Celebrities Before and After
  Shows some photos of celebrities before and after beauty retouching.



• Greg Apodaca
  Rolling the mouse over most of the images of this digital portfolio will display the original scan before it was retouched.



• Touch of Glamour
  Photo Retouching and Enhancement for Pageant, Model and Glamour Photography – Rollover effect also here.



• Amy Dresser
  Portfolio of a full-time retoucher and illustrator.



• Retouche
  Norm Nason is a senior graphic designer and fine artist.



• The art of retouching
  Glenn Feron was born, then found art and was born again.



• Digitalpablo
  Portfolio of Pablo J. Castillo.



• Digital Retouche
  A German professional retoucher.



• Artist 2 Design
  Experience retouching thousands of actors headshots over the years has taught Shawn the art of what to retouch and what not to.



• Digital Retouching Services
  From very basic blemish clean ups to full out magazine quality beauty skin retouching.



• Retouchme
  Creative high-end beauty, fashion and product retouching.



• Retouche Demo
  Nice flash demonstration how to retouche a photo.

Vidéos – tutoriaux

• A Perfect Lie In Photoshop
  Cameron Rad turn a beautiful woman into a perfect one. “I went through about 40 different makeover techniques, until i found what i thought was the best balance for this photo.” A good “flawless” skin method.



• Hilary Duff
  Hilary Duff makeover.



• Breast Enlarge
  This tutorial shows you how to enlarge a breast.



• Smart Filters
  Using smart filters to soften the skin of your subject gives you the ability to retouch your image while maintaining flexibility.



• Basic Beauty
  Learn the absolute basics of beauty retouching in Photoshop.



• Beauty Saloon
  Skin retouching with Photoshop.



• Model Beauty
  Speed revision of a model beauty.



• Natural to Synthetic
  Extremly makeover of a photo of Amy Lee from Evanescence.



• Gossip Girl
  Leighton Meester super glam.



• Body makeover
  Makeover to illustrate what photoshop can do.



• Magic
  The fast way to loosing weight.



• Pretty
  A little time and effort can do a lot.



• Extreme
  A really nice Photoshop Makeover.



• Pretty face
  Another Makeover.



• Evolution
  An evolution of a model.



• proof
  Proof that you can in fact create top beauty images with a point and shoot camera.



• model job
  Great digital makeup in photoshop.



• The Perfect Lie
  High-speed Photoshop transformation.

Workflow

• Pure perfection
  Spin raw beauty into pure perfection. Very detailed tutorial.



• Beautify a Face
  This extensive Photoshop tutorial will show you how to beautify a face.



• Ultimate Makeup
  A series of steps to improve skin tones, modify shadow and light patterns to increase the impact, and enhance the eyes and hair to create a striking portrait.

Retouches esthétiques

• Phoenix Hair Effect
  With some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photos with this flaming hair tutorial.

Plus…

• Longer Nails
  You would like a woman’s nails to be longer? Here we go…



• Eliminate Cellulite
  In this tutorial you can learn how to eliminate a person’s cellulite.



• Nail manipulation
  Manipulating nails by increasing length and changing shade.



• Airbrush retouching
  See what`s possible with Photoshop`s airbrush tool.



• Retouching for Beginners
  This tutorial shows a couple of simple techniques you can use to enhance your portraits.



• Photoshop Beauty
  Some ways to improve your photos with the help of using Photoshop.



• Tone Down Highlights
  Sometimes the only thing that keeps a good portrait from being a great portrait is a little too much shine on the skin.



• Looking good
  Great Techniques for Photoshop Beauty Retouching.



• New look
  Whatever a model looks like, we can give her a totaly new, beautiful look.



• Glamour Style
  Suzette Troche-Stapp is one of the most sought-after photographer/digital artists today.