When it comes to photo editing there are countless techniques and tools that can bring new perspectives to your photographs and simplify your workflow. Here are four tutorials focused on retouching your portraits in Photoshop & Lightroom.

Piotr Skoczylas uses Photoshop’s powerful blending modes to juxtapose multiple photos into a single image. In this tutorial, you’ll learn advanced techniques like adjustment layers and masks to create surreal composites.

Freckled models are trending in the world of fashion & portrait photography. This tutorial shows you how to use Lightroom to enhance the appearance of freckles on your model by adjusting tone curves and color enhancements.

Collodion (aka wet plate photography) is one of the earliest forms of photography. This step by step video tutorial shows you how to recreate this retro look in Photoshop by using Photoshop’s high pass filter and layers to add texture to your image.

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Learn to create your own custom filters with the help of gradients in Photoshop. This tutorial also shows you how you can record your edits and save them as Photoshop actions which can be saved and applied to multiple photos with ease.

BEFORE & AFTER

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