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Adobe Photoshop Model Photo Touch Up Techniques

Photo touch up has been an important aspect for both professional and non professional nowadays. This is something most of us with a camera must learned! If you are a web designer or want to walk down designers path, this is a resources you must have. The differences between a photo that doesn't applied these touch up techniques and those that does can be seen obvious. Don't believe me? Watch the video below for some extreme Photoshop makeover. Definitely inspire you to see what resources i have installed for you!

This article will try to provide you with model photo touch up techniques which uses Adobe Photoshop that are both awesome and useful. The article will be split into few sections for easy navigation to bring you the place you want to touch up on your photo! Ready to make over?

P.S: These are all pure articles for Adobe Photoshop touch up make over techniques.

Skin (Touch up)
Face
Eyes
Nose
Hair
Teeth
Body
Hands
Full Touch Up

Skin (Touch up)

Perfect Skin

Flawless Flesh: Skin Repair & Reconstruction

Airbrush

Photo Retouching

Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching

Retouching

Retouch Yellow Skin

Smooth Skin

Beauty Retouching

Romantic Glow

Portrait Retouching for Beginners

Tone Down Highlights

Beauty Retouching

Make up in Photoshop in 10 min

Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching

Face

Apply Eye Make-up

Removing Wrinkles, blemishes, acne or just fix up any skin problems

Adding Beards & Stubble to a Portrait Tutorial

Reducing 5 O'Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble

Apply Makeup Digitally

Removing Freckles

Removing Wrinkles or Bags Under Eyes

Eyes

Make eyelashes thicker

Change Eye Color

Shadowy, Sultry Eyes

Nose

Easy Digital Nose Job In Photoshop

Digital Nip Tuck

Smaller Nose

Hair

Changing Hair Color

Change Hair Color

Phoenix Hair Effect

Graying hair

Swapping hair to create a different look

Removing Hair Roots

Teeth

Whitening Teeth & Eyes

Whiten Teeth

Whiten And Brighten Teeth

You are a Good Dentist

Whitening Teeth the Professional Way

Body

Remove a Tan Line

Bigger Bustline

Trimming weight off with the Liquify tool

Removing Love Handles (Spare Tires)

Change a Person’s Body (aka The Virtual Boob Job)

Eliminate Cellulite

Hands

Nail Painting

Longer Nails

Manipulating nails by increasing length & changing shade

Removing Blemishes

Remove Arm Hair

Full Touch Up

Beautify a Face

Beauty Retouching in Photoshop

Basic Model Retouching

Simple photo adjustment manipulation

Comprehensive Skin and Facial Enhancing

FACE MAKEOVER

Age Progression

5 Really Easy, yet Essential Photo Retouch Techniques for Photoshop Beginners

10 different ways to fully utilise the blend tool in Adobe Illustrator

I've talked about how amazing and underused the blend tool in Illustrator is. Here are ten ways to fully utilize the blend tool to create many different kinds of effects in Illustrator.

Blend and mask yourself a great poster

Do you think it's difficult to create a poster with an effect just like the one above? Think again! It's really not. The blend tool was used to create the swirly effects in the background of the poster which would have otherwise been dull and flat.

Illustrator Blend Tool Tips and Tricks

Over at Guru's Unleashed, the tutorial teaches you how to edit the blending spine so you can blend in curves or in any other direction that you would like.

Illustrator's Blend Tool: A Comprehensive Guide

This guide teaches you how to blend with various shapes and gradients, applying blends along a path, replacing spine option, replacing a spine or creating highlights like the picture above. Very useful and reccomended for beginners who did not know the full potential of the tool.

Creating a Stylish Vector Flower

The blend tool technique makes creating vector images like the flower above VERY simple to do- not to mention that it looks great. NDesign studio teaches you how.

Creating Vector Gradient Patterns

Creating vector gradients like the ones above is easy! All it takes are four steps and there you have it. The vector lab shows you how.

Once the blend tool has been sufficiently mastered, it can be incorporated with other tools to create other images such as the ones below.

Swirl mania in Illustrator

The swirls and spirals in the picture can be created using the blend tool along with the pattern details on them.

Che Mondo Bello: Tutorial in Illustrator Blends

Again, this image shows a perfect example of how an image is livened up with the details in the background created with the blend tool.

Amazing Illustrator 3D Effects

Starting with a relatively flat image of a text, by using the blend tool, a 3d effect can be obtained. With a little help from Photoshop, the result is the image such as above.

Creating an abstract flower using Blend Tool

This tutorial is a step-by-step article on how to create an abstract flower such as the one above using the blend tool. I particularly liked this one the best. A great example of a simple and yet so beautiful image that is easy to do.

Creating gradients with the blend tool

The jellybeans above all look relatively 3d with the help of the blend tool which would have otherwise been a very flat image.

10 useful tips and tricks when using Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator has a number of tools that Photoshop does not have, and is generally used to create icons as it can be edited infinitely and can be shrunk or increased in size without losing any picture quality. Below are some other great tips for using Illustrator and the wonderful effects that can be created.

How to create sketch style icons in Illustrator

sketch style icons

This sketchy scribbled-in style is used by a lot of websites, and here's how to do it like you coloured it in with your pencil! Also, they were kind enough to have the AI source file for download so you don't even have to do it yourself, just download the file and snatch their icon. Remember to leave some feedback though, I'm sure they'll appreciate it! I'll be using this technique in my site too!

How to do a colourful lighting effect

colourful lighting effect with illustrator

So you think only Photoshop can produce amazing lighting effects? Illustrator can too! And this site demonstrates it pretty well. I think Illustrator is pretty underestimated in a lot of things that it can do, and there aren't enough tutorials out there to show what its capabilities are. It doesn't just draw.

How to create an alarm clock icon

This alarm clock looks pretty realistic and is illustrated largely with the help of the gradient tool. This site also has a pretty nifty and detailed tutorial to illustrate an open book using the 3d extrude and bevel tool.

How to create an open book with the extrude and bevel tool

open book with 3d extrude and bevel tool

How to create an abstract background

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This would be pretty easy if you got the hang of Illustrator and is well-acquainted with the Blend tool. But if you haven't, this tutorial will teach you how! The blend tool is very underused in Illustrator but it's one of the most useful ones out there.

How to design your own funky digital character

funky character

Scan your sketches, upload them into Illustrator, and use the live trace to trace the paths of your character. You can then create your own personal funky cartoon character!

How to create a 3d pie chart

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Need to create an awesome pie chart to impress your colleagues at your presentation? Here's how!

How to create a realistic candy bar

candy bar

This article is a step by step tutorial on creating a realistic candy bar simply with the options contained in the Effects menu. It's amazing how simple the effect on the candy bar is just by adding a few touches of shadow and lighting on an otherwise flat image.

How to create a furry vector monster

cute furry vector monster

The one striking thing about this monster, is the fur detail all over the body. Without it, it wouldn't look half as great. The tutorial has a detailed step-by-step instruction on how to create the monster as well as how to create the fur detail to create a little more depth to your cartoon character.

Creating a swatch gradient background effect

Illustrator swatches gradient background effect - Veerle's blog_1247160232967

This pixellated gradient effect is a cool effect to use, and surprisingly really really easy to do with the blend tool (again, the blend tool is really really useful and one of the most powerful tools in Illustrator).

List Of Must Have Addons For Designers In Web Development

This is a list of addon to Mozilla Firefox for designers in web development. I believe most of the professional web designers may have this list. But for some of the designers who just started designing on web might find this pretty useful. The list here are being updated personally by me along with some of the list listed below for my web development need.

Nonetheless, feel free to suggest any good material you have for your web development! One thing to note, i recommend you to visit List Of Must Have Addons For Programmers In Web Development before reading this list. The list on the programmer side may have some useful tools you will need as a designer too.

Screengab

One of the easiest screen capture addon in Mozilla Firefox. The captured image can either be saved into your hard disk as an image file or you can just captured it into your memory and insert into your favorite image editor and edit the image! Can't get what you want on your screen? Grab it instead!

Pixel Perfect

Pixel Perfect required Firebug to work. By toggling the composition on and off, the developer can visually see how many pixels they are off in development. It saved the last CSS position of your development and compare with the current one. It is something similar to PageDiff just that it is usually used by designers. Great stuff designer must have!

Opera View

Opera View like what it named render the page you are viewing as Opera. This helps you check your design compatibility with Opera. Excellent if you are working on cross browser design which you should.

MeasureIt

Every desinger will agree that MeasureIt is something necessary in your designing cycle. You want to measure something with ruler or with MeasureIt?

IE NetRenderer

Similar to many IE view,tab etc. but this will render the current page to IE view. Very similar to Opera view but just that it is for Internet Explorer.

Font Finder

Saw a font used by some attractive site? Use Font Finder to check out what font is being used on their site! Very easy to use, just right click and select font finder! Best for simplify human being like me!

Firesizer

Firesizer is a plugin you should not miss. There are other plugin that did the same as Firesizer but this is the most simple to use plugin you can find for resizing your browser in different size. This is best used to check on your design on different browser size. What will happen to it? Better check.

Web developer

Web developer one of the most popular plug-in for Mozilla Firefox! Why? It provides you with all the informatin you need on development in CSS! It provides all the information contains on the web CSS sheet and give you a detail information you need on a particular website. The most awesome feature is the edit CSS which allows you to edit your CSS page on the fly! This is a must have add-on for your Mozilla Firefox if you are in to web design and font end programming.

FireShot

FireShot is similar to ScreenGrab. They both capture browser screen shot. But unlike ScreenGrab, FireShot gives you the ability to edit and insert stuff onto your captured image. Below list the amazing stuff FireShot can do.

uploaded to FREE public screenshot hosting
saved to disk (PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP)
printed
copied to clipboard
e-mailed
sent to configurable external editor for further processing.

If you are prefer simple and basic function scroll up and click ScreenGrab if you prefer multiple function please click FireShot image. =)

CSSViewer

CSSViewer is a simple CSS view tool for you to view on elements on the page. If you have webdeveloper, this may not be what you want. But to be simple this is quite good.

ColorZilla (25/4/2009)

ColorZilla one of the important design tool i forgotten! This is used to check the color of a particular element in your browser, adjust it and paste it on another program. Great stuff!

Status-bar Scientific Calculator (25/4/2009)

You will need this scientific calculator to help you calculate width and height or some graphic animation. This is something you will find it handle. It allows you to calculate on the browser instead of searching for the calculator on your desktop. We are talking about speed up web development ain't we? =D

CoolPreview (25/4/2009)

need inspiration? But there are so many links available? Preview it before clicking it then! This way you only see what you like and filter all the bad ones. Perfect for generating ideas and inspiration!

GidFox (29/6/2009)

GridFox Draws a grid on top of a website. This is useful for checking designs that are supposed to follow a grid-based layout.

And that is all the unique stuff i used on Firefox for my designing work. Notice that some of the important tools are not shown here because i have listen them on the other post which i recommended reading it at the begining of this post. Anyway, if i neglected any important plugin, please share with me and i will update the list again =)