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

Amazing vector art created by Ahmed Alrefaie, up to a month to create one…
http://abduzeedo.com/20-insane-vectors-ahmed-alrefaie

Great article on special image enhancing techniques by Six Revisions-
http://sixrevisions.com/photoshop/22-professional-photoshop-image-enhancing-tutorials/
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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
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