Thursday, 16 September 2010

Research and Planning: Introduction to Photoshop (Skin correction tutorial)


I am learning how to use photoshop once again and now I have managed to use skin correction and change the features of how someone looks by using the many tools provided. The first thing I did was using the 'healing tool' and selecting 'spot healing brush'. I then decreased the brush diameter so that the brush fit the size of the spots, I kept doing this until all the spots had been removed. I then started to correct the skin so that it would look more attractive. I did this by selecting 'layer' then 'duplicate layer'. I then had to click on 'window' then onto 'layers' therefore opening the 'layer palette'. After clicking on duplicate layer a 'dialogue  box' opened up I left the default settings as they were and continued. Now that I have my two layers I clicked on the one that was the 'background copy' in the layers palette, and then clicked on filter, I then selected 'Blur' then 'Smart Blur'. Once I clicked on this it came up with an option to change the settings but I kept the default ones. As I had the new layer selected I then changed the 'opacity' of it to 45%. Now the picture of the model was looking more realistic for a magazine cover. However, the eyes and mouth of the model were still blurred. To change this I had to click 'add layer mask' from the layers palette. I then went over to the tool box and selected the brush tool and started to brush grey on the eyes and hair, therefore making the picture look more 'natural' for a cover.

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