Retouching is a big part of Photoshop and commonly used in magazines, books, advertisements. It is not too exaggerated when saying that you see this kind of work every day even if you are not a graphic designer. Various methods can be used to achieve stunning effects, sky is the only limitation. However, it is definitely hard to master and requires you to have strong understanding about layers, color and brightness, sometimes filter effects as well. So this article wishes to bring you some of the best tutorials for retouching, most of them are step-by-step tutorials, very comprehensive with great results and thus can save you a lot of time

In this tutorial you will learn how to enhance the skin and hair of a girl with some filter effects and blending modes. Finally we will add lighting effect to make the photo more beautiful

In this tutorial we will learn how to play with colors in a photo, turn it into a cool and dark style that can easily impressive your viewers

In this tutorial you will learn how to enhance the color of an object, such as a hair, making it more vivid and surely lovely!

In this tutorial you will learn how to add a windy effect on a scenery photo. We will mainly use Filter effects to achieve the result

In this tutorial we are going to create a beautiful scene that works well with fairy stories. You can also use it in some posters which require dreamy effects as well

This tutorial will show you how to turn a lovely waterfall into a deadly one with magma effect. We will make it look real and natural, read on to find out how

Lighting effect is very impressive and interesting. So in this tutorial we are going to bring some sunlight to a cloudy day. Read on to find out how, step by step