These tips should help a beginner with retouching skin, in the right way!

This website may help you: [link]
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- skin smoothing, I use the dodge and burn technique + some healing and cloning, in some cases even a bit of airbrushing with the pencil tool -

Skin Dodge and burn:
(TIP NEVER USE BLUR TO SMOOTH SKIN! NEVER!)

tutorial 1:
[link] PART 1
[link] PART 2

tutorial 2:
[link]

Skin tone:

[link]
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I can also recommend this DVD (it didn't worked for me since the info on it was not really new to me, so it didn't had any relevant information to give me. Although for a beginner it's great! and you get high quality pictures (39 mp) to work with. It is kind a pricy, but they discount about 96 dollars!

[link]

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Here is also a link to download a .PSD file with all the dodge and burn layers etc. This is work that i have done a long time ago, it was my first dodge and burn! haha. It's nice to see how everything looks and what is done

DOWNLOAD FILE: [link]