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Fake It Till You Make It: How to Sculpt Six-Pack Abs in Photoshop Using Light and Shadow
Body retouching gets a bad reputation, and honestly, some of it is deserved. But there’s a category of techniques that sit more in the “photo illustration” or “creative enhancement” space, and understanding how light and shadow sculpt the human form is genuinely useful knowledge, whether you’re touching up a fitness brand’s campaign, mocking up a magazine cover concept, or just trying to understand why certain retouching looks convincing and other retouching looks like someone melted a wax figure.