Start:
•Remove any background distractions
•Global Color Correction
Removing Blemishes
1) Choose a photo that needs blemishes removed
2) Choose Clone Stamp
-Choose a soft edge brush slightly larger than
the blemish you want to remove
3) Change blend mode in the options bar to Lighten
-With lighten selected the clone stamp will only
affect pixels darker than the sampled area
4) Choose a source point, Option Click (PC Alt Click)
-The source point should be close to the area
needing repair
5) Put cursor over the blemish click once (don’t paint)
You’re Done
--- If the blemish is lighter than the skin change the blend
mode to Darken ---
1) Choose a photo that needs blemishes removed
2) Choose Healing Brush
-Choose a brush slightly larger than
the blemish you want to remove
3) Set source point, Option Click (PC Alt Click) and remove blemish
•At times the Patch Tool is the tool, give it a try.
1) Choose a photo that needs wrinkle removed
2) Choose the Healing brush
3) Choose a source point, Option Click (PC Alt Click)
-The source point should be close to the area needing
repair
4) Paint a stroke over the wrinkle,
a second later the wrinkle is gone
-Left bracket key makes the brush smaller
-Right bracket key makes the brush larger
2) Choose Patch tool
Options Bar, Source
3) Make a selection of the wrinkled area, slightly larger
than the wrinkle you want to repair
4) Click within the selection to drag it to a clean area
that has no edges
5) Release the mouse button and the patch tool does its
thing
6) Command - D (PC Control - D) to deselect the area
but how old do you want to look?
1) Choose a photo that needs wrinkle removed
2) Duplicate the Background layer Command - J (PC
Control - J)
3) Fix the duplicate layer using one of the techniques
above
4) Lower the opacity on the duplicate layer to bring
back some of the wrinkles
---A more Realistic Done---
Another Technique
1) Choose a photo that needs dark wrinkles removed
2) Choose clone stamp
-Soft edged brush
-Size, what needs to be repaired
3) Options bar
-Lower the opacity to 10 - 30%
4) Option click source point
(somewhere near the area to be repaired)
5) Paint over wrinkles
-They are still there, but less visible
This works well on hot spots, shiny noses and foreheads
1) Choose a photo that needs dark circles removed
2) Choose clone stamp
-soft edged brush
-size, half as wide as what you want to repair
3) Options bar
-lower the opacity to 50%
-change blend mode to lighten
4) Option click source point (just below the area to be repaired)
5) Paint over dark circles
2) Choose clone stamp
-soft edged brush
-size, half as wide as what you want to repair
3) Options bar
-lower the opacity to 10 - 30%
4) Option click source point (just below the area to be repaired)
5) Paint over dark circles
(this works well for facial lines also)
1) Choose a photo that needs dark circles removed
2) Choose the patch tool ( a flyout from the healing brush tool)
3) Options Bar
-Source
4) Draw a selection around one of the circles
5) Click within the selection to drag it to a clean area that has no
edges
6) Release the mouse button and the patch tool does its thing
7) Command - D (PC
Glamour Skin
1) Open a photo to glamour skin
2) Duplicate the background layer
3) Go: Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur, enter
between 3-6 pixel blur in the dialogue box,
depending on how soft you want the blur.
4) Lower the opacity of this layer to 50%
5) next selectively bring back facial details:
add a layer mask to the Gaussian blurred
layer
6) Paint on the layer mask to reveal the
clearer image from below
-White reveals
-Black conceals
You can change the opacity of the paint on
the layer mask
Whitening teeth and eyes
Make a selection of the white area
that needs whitening (both eyes or teeth)
3) Feather by one or two pixels
4) New adjustment layer Hue/Saturation
5) eyes: edit red, saturation -100, lightness to desired effect
teeth: edit yellow, saturation -100, lightness to desired effect
6) Click OK
Technique 2 (eyes)
1) Open photo that needs retouching
2) Create a curves adjustment layer, click OK
3) Change blend mode to screen
4) Press the letter “D” on the keyboard, Look for the foreground
color to be black
5) Option - Delete (PC Alt - Backspace) This fills the curves
adjustment layer with black,
changing the mode adjustments appearance back to where we
started.
6) Press the letter ”X” This changes your foreground color to white
7) Brush tool, soft edge, small size, paint over whites of the eyes
-Painting will bring back the screen mode effect seen earlier
8) Lower the opacity of the curves adjustment layer to look natural
Another technique, my favorite...
1) Stamp the layers - -shift, option, control "E"
2) Change the Blend Mode to Screen
3) Option Click on the Layer Mask Icon (brings up the layer mask as black hiding the correction)
paint with white over teeth or whites of the eye.
4) You will then want to lower the opacity of the layer to the desired look.
Enlarge the Eyes (a little)
1) choose an image to enlarge the eyes
2) make a selection around the eyes
(select one eye with the lasso tool, hold
down the shift key to add the other eye to the selection)
3) select - feather (feather by 2-10 pixels depending on the size of your image
4) copy (command “c”) paste (command ”v”) eyes to a new layer
5) edit - transform - scale
(if you have the link icon highlighted what you type into
width will affect height)
6) type in 102.00 into the height box, with the link highlighted and the width
will change also
7) click the check box at the right on the options bar
-a subtle enlarging of the eyes, no one will be able to tell, yet your portrait will
engage the viewer in a positive way-
Lighten the Eyes
1) Select just the eyes
2) lighten the eyes and added
a bit of contrast to make them
pop.
-try a curve.
Sharpen the Eyes
I look at the eye when I sharpen, this should be the sharpest point in the picture.
1) Stamp the layers -
-shift, option, control "E"
2) Sharpen the Stamped Layer
3) Option Click on the Layer Mask Icon (brings up the layer mask as black hiding the correction)
Paint with White over eye to reveal sharpening.
4) You may want to lower the opacity of the layer to the desired look.
Change the lip color
1) select a new adjustment
layer - color Balance
-drag the slider until you
find the color you want
2)
Command "I" to hide the correction
3) Using the brush paint with white to reveal your new lip color
Change the color of the eye
1) Select a new adjustment layer
- Hue/Saturation
-Click the “Colorize” button on the
palette
-Slide the Hue, Saturation and Lightness
sliders until satisfied.
2) Command "I" to hide the correction
3) Using the brush paint with white to reveal your new eye color
1) choose an image to colorize the hair
2) choose color balance
-change color
3) command “I” (inverse) the layer mask goes from white to black
-from white to black, your color change will disappear
4) choose a soft brush and paint with white where you want the color change
5) fine tune the image by changing brush size and opacity of white/black to
get the desired look
(remember the eyebrows)
6) in the layers palette change the mode to “color” and lower the opacity of
the layer for a more natural look
