Good day everyone. Few days ago, we featured some fresh vector tutorials using Illustrator in “Early 2010 Best of Vector Tutorials in Adobe Illustrator“. Now let’s take a look at some Photoshop tutorials this time. And let’s focus specifically on photo handling and editing capability of Photoshop like photo retouching and restoration.
Photo retouching and manipulation are probably the two most important areas Photoshop is used extensively, mainly because Photoshop offers a variety of sophisticated tools and effects that you can use to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions, emphasize or enhance some beautiful details, correct colors, and a whole lot more.
These skills are important to learn not just for professional photographers but for anyone who simply wants to learn to edit and retouch their own photos using the same powerful photo-editing software professionals use.
Let’s study the dozen examples shown below on how it is done in practice. Photo retouching and restoration listed six tutorials each containing before-vs.-after-comparison with easy to follow step-by-step procedures in Photoshop.
Photo Retouching
1. Shadow Recovery of Backlight Problem
Photographer Edwin Setiawan explains in this simple Photoshop tutorial how to fix backlight problems.
2. Skin and Facial Enhancing
Learn how to enhance and glamorize a face in Photoshop with this easy to follow tutorial.
3. Professionalizing low quality photos
Turn your low quality discolored photos to professional looking photos with this simple and easy to follow tutorial.
4. Glamor Retouch Tutorial
Learn how to smooth skin and add those glamorous glow using this simple and short tutorial.
5. Sharpening Photos: An Alternative Approach
Here’s an alternative and more effective way of sharpening blurry photos.
6. Photo Retouching with Lighting Focus
Photo Restoration
1. How To Repair Scratches, Tears, and Spots on an Old Photograph
This PSD Tuts+ tutorial will teach us how to repair cracks, scratches, and spots so this photo of the Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind, looks just like new.
2. Professional Photograph Restoration Workflow
Once again, PSD Tuts+ shows us in this tutorial in-depth professional workflow for restoring old photographs to their former glory.
3. Restoring Colors of Old Photographs
Here’s a quick fix tutorial on how to fix and restore colors of old photos using Photoshop Elements.
4. Coloring an Old Black and White Photo
This tutorial demonstrates in very simple and easy to follow step by step procedures on how to add some colors to old black and white photos.
5. Adding Colors to Black and White Landscape Photo
Here’s another coloring black and white photo tutorial in Photoshop. This one is a more extensive and detailed demonstration using an architectural/landscape type of photo.
6. Give Old Photos A Punchy Stylistic Feel
Restore old photos their once glossy and punchy feel with this simple tutorial which includes a video of the actual process.
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Al Kamal Md. Razib on June 16, 2010
Great job ! Really nice to retouch & restoration. Thanks for sharing it.
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Thanks.
Web Design Blog on July 4, 2010
I love photo retouching it can really save a photo!
linda ouirdi el on July 30, 2010
some pictures were better before retouching
Nate on August 4, 2010
The torn one ended up cross-eyed. The person who did it must have been cross-eyed not to have noticed.
Jess on August 5, 2010
The torn retouching is horribly fudged, having the eyes way too close together in the end. Poor effort.
meheto on August 5, 2010
Some of these are pants, infact most of them are. looked better before retouch
Graphire on August 5, 2010
Thanks for the comments guys. Yes I did noticed that cross-eyed photo and some so-so final results. But considering the process and procedures done on these tutorials, overall it’s still a good way to learn photo retouching and restoration, most especially for novice Photoshop users. And for experts like most of you, I know you can produce much better results. Enjoy!