Retouch Magic - Photo Manipulation and Retouching

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About Retouch Magic - Photo Manipulation and Retouching

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An online community to showcase your retouched and restored photographs, to give and receive feedback and critique as well as receive information on methods, plugins and tutorials in our field. The only requirement to our group is that any photo you submit must be a retouch or restore piece. No original, straight from the camera shots unless they are to show what a shot looked like before being retouched.. The entire focus of this group is to share the art form that we are passionate about.

While there is no official Posting Limit, we will not allow flooding of this group and reserve the right to "weed down" any mass submissions of photos. This is not a dumping ground but a place for sharing ideas.

It is also a good idea to tell everyone what you did in a photo's description. This is not a requirement but it is a great way to share methods and learn.Please contact us at any time with any questions or if you are interested in helping to moderate this group.

THE LINK REPOSITORY
This is a list we will be maintaining of the best Photoshop Tutorials we find online.

To submit a link for addition to the list see this thread.


MONTH BY MONTH THEMES / TUTORIALS

October: Scary, Spooky, Creepy, Crawly...
Spooky Manipulations and Concepts: Show off your Scariest Work Here
Make Spooky White Eyes
Creating a Zombie
Creating Spooky and Gothic Eyes
Making Realistic Tears

Weekly Tutorial Links
Weekly Tutorial #5: Blending Modes Explained
Weekly Tutorial #4: Fine Tuning With a Mask
Weekly Tutorial #3: To Clone or To Heal
Weekly Tutorial #2: The Patch Tool
Weekly Tutorial #2 - Bonus Section: Patch Tool in Reverse
Weekly Tutorial #1: Skin Cleanup

Misc. Tutorial Links
Creating Water Reflections
Misc Tutorial: Enhancing/Changing Eye Color
Misc Tutorial: Adding Custom Presets to Photoshop
Misc Tutorial: Watermarking Your Images

Websites and Blogs with many Tutorials
Two Minute Tricks
Kevin Hulsey
Computer Arts
Gwennie2006
The Lights Right Digital Darkroom
Tutorial Bucket

Video Tutorials Worth Checking Out
Smooth, glowing skin with a facial scrub
Smooth skin foundation makeup

Black and White: Conversions and Related
Diffused Black and White
Gradient Map Conversion
A great thread with a bunch of different ways to do great B+W Conversions

Specific Tutorials online
Use LAB color to make your colors pop!
Train yourself to use the pen tool
Land of the Dead Retouch
Color Correction with Curves
Freaky Poppy Eyes
More Eye Stuff from the same group
Fixing a Blown Highlight

More General Articles about Technique
Portrait Retouching with Photoshop 7
Using and Understanding CURVES

Photoshop Stuff, Brushes Plugins etc... Only Free sites not loaded with spam and ads will be added.
Deviant Art Custom Brushes
Brusheezy

FlickrGroups -- Besides this one
Two Minute Tricks
Photoshop Support Group