There are many, many, MANY quick fixes for retouching out there. Most of them kind of work on some photos but destroy texture on others. When you need a truly natural looking professional quality job, I always find manual retouching gives the me the best results.

But where to start? Clone stamp? Healing brush? How about the regular paint brush! As a rule of thumb I always do standard retouching before adding special effects. But where to begin…

…well I start here. Continue reading →