Styles of Retouching in Photoshop
- Styles of Retouching
- Reality Retouching
- You've Only Just Begun
- About This Article
I like to think of retouching techniques as falling into three different styles or categories: reality retouching, plastic surgery, and fantasy. Reality retouching is the kind of retouching you do when the client doesn't want anyone to know that you have altered the image. I find this style of retouching the most challenging, because there is an art to having your work go completely unnoticed, and it's the style of retouching this article focuses on.
Disclaimer
I want to preface this article with a disclaimer. All the women shown in the images that accompany this article are perfect before I touch a pixel. They are smart, charismatic, and incredibly beautiful inside and out. These gorgeous women are human, however, and that is no longer acceptable in today's beauty and fashion world. I am asked to make them superhuman, perfect beyond reality. On the upside, I do love to make beautiful women into super-beautiful women, and that's important because retouching is often the meat and potatoes of the jobs I do.