One post that helped me a lot when I was starting with more advanced retouching techniques was How to contour your face. by CeeMe. Its a makeup tutorial, not retouching, but its really not hard to translate.
I see a lot of beginning retouchers making the mistake of using liquify or some other method that actually moves pixels around to try to make people thinner or better when in many cases a little shadow here or there would do the trick. Thats not to say liquify isn’t totally kickass, I use it often, but a lot of beginners would do good to back off a little and try some DnB.
April 19th, 2010
