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As an ex Photoshop retoucher I am always fascinated by the ability of people to extend this tool to great lengths.

I used to work with a guy (back in the 90’s) who in Photoshop V4 could create a portrait from scratch using a wacom tablet and his artistic ability, after many hours and days of airbrushing he would end up with a life like image. Incredible, nowadays this is more commonplace-

http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/40-outstanding-photo-manipulation-tutorials.html

For all you budding retouchers out there here are a few examples of what not to do -

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com

http://www.photoshoplady.com/30-best-photoshop-abstract-effect-tutorials/

Amazing vector art created by Ahmed Alrefaie, up to a month to create one…

http://abduzeedo.com/20-insane-vectors-ahmed-alrefaie

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/evolution-of-photoshop/#more-4270

http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/05/05/50-truly-useful-photoshop-tutorials-for-amazing-photo-effects.html

Great article on special image enhancing techniques by Six Revisions-

http://sixrevisions.com/photoshop/22-professional-photoshop-image-enhancing-tutorials/

Here is an introduction to Photoshop CS4 by Terry White-

https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p85703828/

Terry will also be covering Lightroom in his next scheduled Evening with Terry white on 28 April-

http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/eveningwithterry

http://www.tutzone.org/2009/04/18-photoshop-brushes-to-lighten.html

http://www.psdrockstar.com/photo-effects/creating-a-fantasy-scene/

http://speckyboy.com/2009/03/30/30-photoshop-video-tutorials-learn-from-the-pros-of-graphic-design/

http://www.psdrockstar.com/photo-effects/tutorial-drawing-a-lightbulb/

http://abduzeedo.com/great-girl-manipulations-digital-artist-michael-o

http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/03/24/43-really-useful-photoshop-tutorials-for-excellent-3d-effects.html

http://sixrevisions.com/photoshop/70-excellent-photoshop-resources/

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/20-beautiful-vintage-photoshop-brush-sets/