Here's a book recommendation for portrait retouching

[Ballistics]

Amazon.com: Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop (Voices That Matter) (9780321725547): Scott Kelby: Books by Scott Kelby



Now, I'm not usually an advocate for books, being that you can pretty much find anything on YouTube. Having said that, this book is
pretty awesome for the photoshop beginner/amateur. He uses Photoshop CS5 but I find it fine for CS6. For those of you with an Ipad -
You can buy the ebook for about $20. What's great about this book, is that you are provided the exact JPEGs they use in each lesson, so you can follow along
step by step. They are free for download on the website.

This book is extremely intuitive and really opens your eyes to how easy editing can be (most of the time).

 

[MLeeK]

I think I have that... I don't know as I have ever read it. I have so many PDF books that the college supplied to me and I have GOT to find time to go through them!

 

[Ballistics]

I really like it, give it a look.