Great tutorial explaining stuff---I honestly thought the eyebrows and nose were fine like they were. The eyebrows kind of look fake now. Great job though! Still a high mark.

Great tut Learned something new today, thanks!

it's a nice work, but I think you've reduced too much the jaw: one thing is making people thinner, another thing is changing the shape of the skull. in the result her face looks too pressed to be real..
if you'd fix this thing your tutorial could be perfect :3

Well most "pro look" ad never show the "before look" in their ad( and I am not talking about those lose weight ad)... So we really don't know what were fixed( well hard core photoshop maniac are different issue) and the image looks great...

Here there is before and after image, so that mars the realistic nature of the image... However I do feel the eyebrow and the eye are not in proportion, even if it is suppose to look threaded...

Well apart from that the tutorial is nice...

quero fazer isso na minha foto

Great tutorial, i learned a bunch of little tricks. Thanks

I think she looked better in the original image. the worked image she looks to "Squashed"

hmmm...

Learned a few tips on how to do some things but...

In step 6 you say "The main goal here is to make the eyes smaller vertically and larger horizontally"

then you make her face slimmer, and now her eyes and mouth look too wide for narrow face.

Think you went a little overboard.

wow mazing tutorial.i love doing this job but u have illustrated this so nicely.thanks a lot.

she looks freaking scary in the after shot, jeez. you went too far, its all about being subtle. if the person in the photo saw what you did she would cry.

you should have stopped at 'step 7', the "after" is meant to look like the "before" but better, not worse

It's all about perspectives... i guess if you get a picture of the same person right now and when he/she had a few more kgs/pounds more it will look similar. Of course it's too hard to predict how exactly someone will look when it's thiner but well you can get close.

I think you ended up aging the poor girl by 20 years. You have some very useful steps for people who are new to retouching, but there is a stopping point.

Hey eyeballs kinda looked blue after. Good tutorial. Overdid the eyes and eyebrow but overall, great tutorial. ^____^

she looked better in the original

you made her ugly and alien-like, way to suck

she looked better in the original

no she looks better in the after result really!

great tutorial

thnkz!

Better or worse is a subjective decision so we shouldn't concentrate so much on that here. What is definite is the useful techniques that this tutorial presents. Thanks.

It was a great tutorial but I really think you could have made her look a bit prettier.

The tutorial is supposed to be about turning an ugly chick into a hot babe. What you've done is turned a fat chick into a drag queen.

where do we go for making this stuff anyway?? ..

this looks fake n disgusting...

great explaining techniques, I learnt a few things. But she looks fake in the end. touching up her roots and skin a bit would have been enough

Great, now she looks like a hooker. O_o

WOW. You explain well but your work does not match up to your explainations! The whole point of retouching is to fix and make things look better but no one knows WHY it looks better! Subtlety is a hard thing to master and it takes years of practice, so hang in there..........you may be able to grasp it one day.

Nice explanation on this tutorial while some of the points on her face is not appropriate like her eyes and mouth! I still like her original face though!

As one blogger surmised, if no one saw the before picture we would all be ignorant of any change. The resultant post-pic is fine. It's somewhat disproportionate relative to the first and that is to be expected. No human face is perfectly symmetrical anyway and no single aspect or part is flawless relative to another. That is subjective. However, the color and shading is a tad exaggerated. Yet, your demonstration is practical even if it did lack some visual finesse. This picture could be worked on for another hour and still get negativity. Don't sweat it. Good job.

The tutorial was great, I just don't like the finished result. I think that parts of it were good, like how the cheeks were done; but the whole thing with her eyebrows and the addition of such a horrible, cheap looking makeup is what killed it. It took it from a good tutorial on facial slimming to a good tutorial on how to do a before and after "the effects of drugs on your body" shot.

You did a great job

I definitley learned something new and those who mentioned that she looked totally different. Well, at least you taught some folks how to make people slimmer.

Thanks and keep up the great work.

this is great but i think that i will never get this,i am complete beginner i heard for photoshop not long ago. the best mark fom me. super super stvarno

LOL. Some of you are really funny. The point of this tutorial was how to manipulate an image, applying makeup and changing the shape of someone's face. When I look at the after shot by itself, I see nothing wrong. Some of you may be comparing the face to the original and saying that the model looks better before, but that isn't the point of the article. The point is that you wouldn't think twice about it if you only saw the altered photo without knowing that it was changed. The author of this tutorial needs to remove the before image on the last pic because looking at the after result by itself communicates the point that this woman's face is now changed. Having them side by side in the end causes people to do a comparison of the actual model's face - which isn't the point. The woman in the picture is pretty before and after.

Author, this was a good tutorial.

Oh that's right, you did. We need CS4. Got it, thanks.

Good Job. It is Very Intresting... Like it........

omg, she looks like crap!

very excellent tutorial. learned something new today thank you!!!

you tutorial is great...
but...

the eye is not proportion to her face...

how Download?

Nice lesson from photo shop. Thank you very much

Thank you very much friend

it is very knowledgeable tutorial thanks..................

she looked better before, i mean her face shape!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! now I know how to utilize my photoshop

I took your stock photo, i think i did something good with it check it out.
http://www.pxleyes.com/picture/24039/4bf9e294aae89.html

wow way to make her look completely unnatural. i can do a better job with my feet.

way to be fat AND a liar

Saying the original was "a very fat and boring girl" is what is wrong with this crazy society of ours! So much prejudice (pre-judgement). People are not all about appearances but rather what is inside. You have to learn who someone really is to know if they are "boring" or not, and that takes openness and true listening. It's fine to fix up a photo...and this was a good tutorial, but as for me, I'd take the makeup but keep the shape of the face as it was. the girl is cute, happy-looking, and appealing.

You made her look like a clown, blue eyeshadow and red lips? pfff.

Poor job! Sorry! Tasteless, too! You haven't got the touch or the eye for it!

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Great tutorial that will get me started. Like what you did with the face, you brought out the inner beauty that should be there, and added a few highlights that aren't the person's natural look but makes her look even better. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Nice tutorial on how to make someone look like a cartoon. Maybe if you knock all the changes down about 75% it will be better.

She look MUCH better originally. Now she just looks awkward, fake and overdone. She looked cute the way she really was.

The tutorial was helpful, however the end result is a bit overboard in my opinion. Her eyes are not in proportion to the rest of her face, which looks squashed and quite strange, giving her an odd expression - this actually makes her look unnatural/photoshopped which is not typically wanted when retouching a photo. Unlike a couple of other posters, I don't think this has anything to do with comparing it the original either - even when looking at (and showing a few other people) the after picture alone, it was quite obvious that something wasn't quite right. Techniques are helpful though, and many commenters liked the end result so good job and thanks for the tut!

I think this was an amazing tut for a couple of reasons. 1. Tuts are about learning new ways of doing things or just learning how to do things. There are area's that I might change based on an image I choose, but now I KNOW how to do this, to my own tastes. I thought the goal here was to share your knowledge and experience with others so that as a PSD community we all walk away with something. I don't think the point was if she looks cuter before or after, that's a relative opinion. I think the point is did you learn something from the tut? You professional or hardcore ps guys need to ease up a little. Take a step back and breath a bit. Putting something up like this in a public forum I'm sure isn't easy because you do open yourself up to criticism, but really..constructive??? any one here but me hear of that? it's too easy to complain you don't like it, why not offer a suggestion to enhance or change what was suggested?
Just a thought from a 4 year noob

I think it looks 'real' in the after photo. Maybe a liittle overdone, but its a great transformation. All the photoshop skills youve shown us is realllly good it would definitely be of some use!

Thanks alot for sharing xox.

Badly done. She is a lovely girl and your "makeover" looks too fake. It's bad, sorry.

rsherman is exactly right...who cares if you like the particular choices the artist made? this is a TUTORIAL, and if you were paying attention, you now know how to do all those things to your own taste. the WORST thing you could legitimately say about this tutorial is that you already knew everything in it, in which case you shouldn't post at all!

fantastic tutorial, keep up the good work!

on a completely different note, anyone who says she was cuter beforehand is probably also fat and pockmarked. be careful what you reveal about yourself when you criticize someone else's work.

the before picture is much better than the after pic. :S This is not a professional retouching !

i hate my lips and wants them smaller can any one help me edit them ?

I recently had a makeover and photoshoot, and I'll admit that they did airbrush+slim my face down to get the final results - however, I did still look very much like me! There was no way I could have been made to look a UK size 8!!
The tutorial is a good guide, but I think it should be followed sparingly. The model look horrendous in my opinion. Her skin is sallow and her eyes are alien like. How she could have ever approved such a drastic and terrible alteration to her natural features is beyond me.
I do hope I have not offended you!
Best wishes

the tutorial it s good but ..you don t know how to make up..it s very bad ..sorry

well all said and done, I think you possess a great potential. keep it up. thanks

thanks a lot .. i have learned a lot

can tell me what programs you have made ​​the picture?

I think this tutorial shows how to NOT retouch a picture, she looks 20 ages older and like a dragqueen in the after pic, absolutely unprofessional. Sorry to say that, i am sure you tried hard but i think ur talent is not in photoretouching

Great tutorial. However not a very good make-up. Expecting like that: http://alexopoulos7.blogspot.com/2011/11/make-up-yourself.html

Whether or not I agree with the way you use the term "anti-appealing factors" (because I think she is beautiful without retouching), I'm still going to use these tips to help fix a digital painting I'm working on. I've painted a guy's face, only to realize it's too chubby looking! So I'm going to use that tip of the liquefy tool to slim him down, rather than starting over from scratch.

Thanks!