Ismail Taibi teaches surreal portrait retouching.

Many photographers are accomplished at bringing their vision to life. Ismail Taibi has turned his dark and dreamlike visions into a series of surreal and whimsical portraits. In this tutorial Ismail shares his retouching methods, including actions, overlays and textures, which will allow you to create unusual and surreal portraits.

- Getting Started

- Perspective On Portraits

- Retouching Plan

- Facial Enlargements

- Liquify

- Background Cleanup

- Skin Cleanup

- Frequency Separation

- Color Grade

- Puppet Warp

- Final Textures