I must admit I love photoretouches. Being a graphic designer I ofcourse love to do it myself, but most of all I love looking a good photoretouching. It’s everywhere today. Try looking at an ad that hasn’t been heavily photoretouching. Oops - having trouble finding that ad? Primarily everyone retouch today, it’s not that big a crime. I am not just talking about making yourself or others look better, but also adding effects or removing objects.
Recently Todd Dominey pointed me to the portfolio of a photoretouching company, and boy do they do some great stuff! Try looking at some of their car ads. My skills started getting better and better when I got into a good network some years ago, but I am lightyears of practice from this!