deke.com posts about retouch

Deke's Techniques 128: Creating Silky Smooth Skin in Photoshop

Today I offer a classic retouching technique. I take a photograph of a lovely woman and make her skin look wonderfully, reasonably, and altogether realistically smooth.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #29: Liquify

The Liquify filter lets you paint in distortions so you can perform digital nips and tucks. You can slim people down, edit their posture, and make them look exactly how they wanted to look in the first place.