10 Beautiful Examples of Photo Retouching & Manipulation

Posted: April 20th, 2009 | Author: Jennifer Farley

The following are all people I’ve admired from afar. This collection is a taster of some of the fabo photo retouching and manipulation work they do, something I’m really interested in and do a bit of work in myself. So these guys are quite inspirational. You’ll find no swirls or swooshes in this lot, they are all very different, interesting to look at and try to figure out how it’s done. All images are copyright the original artist.

So, in no particular order;

Whaddya think? Please feel free to add links to other great examples of retouching.

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12 Comments on “10 Beautiful Examples of Photo Retouching & Manipulation”

1 Heather T. said at 8:20 pm on April 20th, 2009:
Is it retouching, or art? That Christophe Huet is something ELSE!!! Gorgeous samples…

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2 Daidreams said at 12:25 am on April 21st, 2009:
I believe it’s both… When a designer can retouch a photo into such an incredible manipulation… It’s certainly ART!

Christophe Huet’s is also my favorite..
3 Devlin said at 6:37 am on April 21st, 2009:
I second Heather T. Huet’s stuff is fantastic!

Devlins last blog post..More Faux-Nostalgia
4 Jennifer Farley said at 8:32 am on April 21st, 2009:
Hi guys! Thanks for the comments.

Yes Christophe Huet is exceptional, isn’t he? When I grow up I want to retouch like him! I love Derek Bacon’s work too. And Taylor James. And Glenn Honiball is renowned in the industry for his work. They’re all brill really.
5 keruchan said at 1:52 am on April 23rd, 2009:
I think it was a ‘manipulation’ not retouch, retouch is by fixing the photos or make it beautiful but off course the photo must still be the same and not to create a huge difference.

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6 Jennifer Farley said at 4:27 pm on April 23rd, 2009:
You are right Keruchan, some of it is definitely manipulation and I’m going to change the name of the post! Thanks for your comments.
7 photo retouching said at 8:14 pm on April 23rd, 2009:
really inspirational artists, all brilliant in their own way. Thanks for this collection.
8 Jennifer Farley said at 11:51 am on April 25th, 2009:
Thanks photoretouching, you’ve got some nice work on your site.
9 Trevor Collins said at 3:31 pm on April 26th, 2009:
Wow! Brilliant work. I especially like the milk exploding out of the bottle with the droplets forming different shapes. First class work
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11 Allen said at 4:26 am on October 4th, 2009:
those are outstanding work~i wish i know how to do sth like them.
realli amazing~thx for posting~
12 retouching said at 2:33 am on October 25th, 2009:
i like the last 2 pics looks real amazing specially for pepsi picture , well done