Touch-up

I found this link a couple of days ago. I can't remember where I found it but that's not important right now. I do a lot of photography for my job, especially photographing people against a plain background, for contouring (alpha-channelling) later on before they're dropped into publication layouts. Sometimes, if the lighting sucks when I take the photo, or if subjects haven't bothered too much about their appearance, I'll do slight touch-ups, just to make them look presentable. So while I think more people should be aware of why and how people look so artificially stunning on mag covers, if you want to engage in the deception, even if it's just to cloak someone's 10-pack-a-day habit, this is an excellent tutorial.