A Complete Guide to Digital Makeover in Photoshop
Fake images are all around us. Almost every fashion model or artist photo is digitally beautified prior to its public release. Sometimes this goes too far and the photos are so fixed that leaves almost no traces of the original natural beauty of the subject being retouched.
This digital enhancement of human faces and bodies is called Digital Makeover. It usually involves techniques such as skin smoothing, red eye removal, hair color replacement an so on.
Although at first sight performing a digital makeover over a photo seems to be an advanced task, it may surprise you how easy is to make noticeable changes to faces with a basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. This article is a guide of the best digital makeover tutorials and resources around the web and it is not the intention of this post to express a definition of beauty in any sense. It is just a thorough listing of photo retouching techniques for Photoshop.
Retouching Different Parts of a Face
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EYES: Enhance eyes brightness |
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EYES: Remove red eye |
TEETH: Whiten teeth |
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NOSE: Modifying a nose (front) |
HAIR: Extracting hair |
HAIR: Extracting |
HAIR: Changing |
HAIR: Retouch dark |
HAIR: Painting a beard |
HAIR: Painting a moustache |
SKIN: Wrinkle removal |
SKIN: Skin tone |
SKIN: Smooth skin |
MAKEUP: Eye makeup |
MAKEUP: Eyeliner |
MAKEUP: Apply lipstick |
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FACE: Create a smile |
All in One Digital Makeover Tutorials
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Digital Makeover Special Effects
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Digital Makeover Photoshop Plugins
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Digital Makeover Books
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Digital Makeover Resources on the Web
Three Israeli computer scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed the ultimate enhancement tool for retouching digital images. Called the Beauty Function, their program scans an image of your face, studies it and produces a slightly more beautiful you.
» Age progressed and age regressed portraits and animations
Dr. D’ Lynn Waldron says: "…My portraits do not predict the future, but only show what it might be in certain circumstances. With modern cosmetic and medical intervention, some of my portraits are like the ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’, showing things the world will never see…"
Amazing extreme digital makeover video. A must see.
This interactive presentation guides you through a digital makeover performed over a model. You can check the before and after states of each part of the model. Click on the image to start the presentation.
This phenomenal makeover is performed only with the liquify tool!
Impressive tool from Makeover Solutions. Choose a model or upload your photo and start working. Requires free registration.
No photo retouching resources list is complete without a Worth1000 gallery. This gallery is the result of a "Detouching" contest. Amazing results. Not exactly nice and beautiful.
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About the Author
Enrique Flouret is an Argentina based Architect and Web Designer with 10 years of web experience. He is the editor and owner of Photoshop Roadmap, Creative Closeup and Photoshop Latino, a Photoshop tutorials site in Spanish. Google+ profile
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