Beauty retouching can be a really time consuming activity. Doing it well really is an essential component to having a good end product. On this shot I am about to show you, I have been working it over for about 4+ hours now. I still have some very minor nitpicky things to do but I thought I’d show this to demonstrate the contrast between an original beauty image and a retouched beauty image. A lot of people that aren’t involved in photography don’t really know what kind of time it takes to finish an image like this, and a lot of photographers that do their own retouching often times look for shortcuts or filters to help them finish faster. This retouch took so long in part because I very thoroughly dodged and burned on the pixel level while also using the healing brush. Check this out, and tell me what you think of the transformation.