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Smashing Magazine did compile a list of 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

Dirk Metzmacher from Smashing Magazine writes: “

Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results.

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These 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials show you how you can:

• Beautiful Skin
• Smooth Skin
• Beauty Retouching
• Remove Freckles
• Dark skin - bright skin
• Change Hair Color
• Remove Hair Roots
• Trimm weight
• Digital Nose Job
• Enhance Iris Color
• Whitening Teeth & Eyes
• Apply Eye Make-up
• Whitening Teeth
• Use Smart Filters
• Beautify a Face
• Phoenix Hair Effect
• Make Nails Longer
• Give Models a New look
• and many more

Bloggers told Iran, “You Suck at Photoshop,” when news broke about doctored photos of Iranian missile tests.

Season 2 rolls on as Donnie Hoyle explores the measure of a man while teaching you about the Measurement Log.

Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) shows you a few tricks on how to make your own sound loops.

Bradley Gabe picks up from the first video tutorial (XSI 7 ICE Video Tutorial: Building a Force from a Curve Video Tutorial) where he created a Curve Flow Force effect. By duplicating and modifying mostly existing nodes from this effect, combines three forces into a vortex force: Enjoy the XSI 7 Video Tutorial: Vortex Control with ICE.

1- Curve Flow Force: Generated from tangent to curve
2- Curve Attraction Force: Generated by subtracting point position vectors from cloud point to closest point on curve
3- Axial Force: Generated by taking the cross product of vectors from forces 1 and 2

Vortex Control from Bradley Gabe on Vimeo.

Bradley Gabe shows in his XSI 7 Video Tutorial how you can creates a static particle emission, then drives point animation using vectors pulled from curve tangency.

ICE Demo: Building a Force from a Curve from Bradley Gabe on Vimeo.

New ICE videos and video tutorials available at SOFTIMAGE in the Softimage community:

http://community.softimage.com/forumdisplay.php?f=86

• Geometry Instancing - Characters & Walk Cycles
• ICE: For Dummies…
• Faking Shattering in ICE
• Spawning Fireworks with ICE
• Introduction to ICE Particles in XSI 7 Demo
• Introduction to ICE Deform in XSI 7 Demo
• ICE Vignettes - what’s possible with ICE in XSI 7
• and many more…

I get many questionsfrom friends and readers about good PhotoShop books they should read or which Tutorial sites they should use to learn more about PhotoShop.

I keep a list of PhotoShop books I recommend under PhotoShop books, mainly books I bought myself, read and successfull used in some projects .

Some PhotoShop books I recommend (available at amazon.com):

You find many great Tutorial websites that offer either printed or video tutorials for PhotoShop. As there are so many great ones here a small (and not complete) selection:

• psdtuts.com
• lynda.com (you need to subscribe to get access to the most, but really great Tutorials)
• www.tutorial9.net
• pshero.com
• tutzor.com
• photoshopstar.com
• tutorialdog.com
• photoshopguidesign.com
• dgrin.smugmug.com
  
• photoshopsupport.com
• The Radiant Vista
• RetouchPRO
• Photoshop User TV

Mario Prang the key person behind Slash did release his second XSI Training DVD (more then 4 hours of XSI training). This time Mario show you how to use Rigid & Soft Bodies in XSI. The training which is in German provides you with an excellent overview on Rigid Bodies, Rigid Constraints and Soft Bodies. Slash is a certified Softimage Training Center who offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced courses for companies or individuals.

Rigid & Soft Bodies training DVD overview:

Rigid Bodies

• Rigid Body basic
• Collision Type
• Initial State
• Active Passive Switch
• Rigid Body Notes
• Environment Caching
• Force Controller
• Glas with ice cubes
• Ghosting

Rigid Constraints

• Hinge
• Ball & Socket
• Spring
• Slider
• Fixed
• Motor
• Rag doll Constraints 1
• Rag doll Constraints 2
• Car Constraints 1
• Car Constraints 2

Soft Body

• Soft Body basic
• Soft Body animation
• Soft Body Settings
• Plasticity
• Soft & Rigid Bodies
• Basketball 1
• Basketball 2
• Basketball 3 Gator

This second Training DVD Mario released is a follow-up release to his successful XSI Character Design Training DVD (6 DVDs and more then 10 Hours of XSI training)) which was released earlier this year. The XSI Character Design Training DVD is recorded in German.