[muzza]

Post your best ones!
If you care to share!

[shellby]

Be prepared to spend 3 to 5 hours on one image. I am talking about beauty and fashion retouching here.

Try not to use heavy blurring and bring back the texture by adding a layer fulled with 50% brightness, blend mode to soflight with a noise filter applied to this layer - change opacity to about 20% or what ever looks best.

Always clone on a new layer. Check on USE ALL LAYERS. Do not clone directly onto your original image.

You should always add noise to any cloning layers too. Group the noise layer to the cloned layer so that it does not add noise to the original image.

[Rufus]

Hey Shelb, I know you know your stuff.
I know you know I know your stuff.

BUT

What did you just say????? :/

[byrt_001]

hi

know how to copy and paste

do small changes

never save ur original, always copy it

read, read, sleep photoshop

take care

christian

[shellby]

Hey Rufus, it's hard to know where to start!!

I learned a lot by siging up to online training with www.lynda.com

Some great Photoshop tutorials there and you can do it from the comfort of your own home

[slejhamer]

Get Katrine Eismann's excellent PS Restoration and Retouching Techniques book. There's none better, IMO.

In lieu of that, here are some faves:

1. "Local contrast enhancement," aka high-radius sharpening. Run USM at amount 20 - radius 50 - threshold 0.

2. Luminosity kicker: run "match color" and set luminance to 110. Instant brightness adjustment without clipping highlights.

3. some basic Soft Focus techniques: http://freespace.virgin.net/nick.thomas3...al%208.htm

[StudioJ]

Less is more

[shuttertalk]

Err... take a good photo to start with? lol... just kidding...

[Rufus]

Less is more

Not when dealing in Bananas though............................... :/