In this tutorial, shows you how to enhance your normal potrait photo into beautifully fair skin and well done makeup, plus shiny healthy hair just like what we see on tv.
- Open the picture, and Dulplicate the picture (Ctrl+J) twice.
- Click on the top layer. Go to Filter > Distort > Diffuse Glow.
- Set the Grainess into 0, Glow Amount of 2, and Clear Amount of 6. OK. Now you’ll see your photos will be glowing and fair. Some color will be missing and it will obviously unnatural.
- To bringup the color. Go to Image > Adjustment > Hue & Saturation. Set the Saturation to 30 (the setting will depends on the picture).
- Now we want to start putting makeup on the model. choose Burn Tool. Select the suitable brush size, with Normal Brush, with the Hardness of 0. Set the exposure into 11, range: Midtone. Start brushing on the area of the eyelid, to darken the area like putting the eyeliner. Brush on the eyebrow.
- To highlight certain area we need Dodge Tools. Still using the same brush and the same setting, set the Range of Midtone, exposure : 16. Highlight on the eye to shine the eye.
- After that, Select the Sponge Tool. This is the step for giving the color to the part that we highlighted. Set the brush into Saturate, flow: 22. Start brushing on the eye. Now you can see the color is now visible and the eye looks better.
- Still with the Sponge tool, now we are going to create the eyeshadow. Brushing on the both corner of the eye. Also, brushing on the cheeck and lips.?
- We are going to make the hair looks shiny. Using dodge tool, with the same Setting in the step 6. Start highlighting on the hair.
- Finally, we are going to bring up the color of the hair. Choose Sponge tool, set the everything like in step 7, except the flow is 48. Brush on the hair.
The Final result :
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1. Open the image
2. Dulplicate the layer twice
3. Make the top layer Desaturate; shortcut = Ctrl+Shift+U
4. Click on the top layer, and add layer mask. By clicking on the icon point in the red circle.
5. Choose the Brush. Set to the Black Color.
6. Choose the suitable brush, and set the Hardness to 0.
7. Start brushing on the flowing. Now the red color of the patel will be reveal.
8. If you have brush on the unwanted part, just choose White Color, and brush on it. So the color will be back into Black & White image.
9. After complete brushing, right click on the Mask. choose Apple Layer Mask.
10. Now, click on the Layer. And select Flatten Image. The final image:
Source of Image: SirMart (?http://www.flickr.com/photos/sirmart/)?
( SunSet at Kuala Perlis)
Here is the steps on how to produce a warm sunset-like photos like above photo.
1. Open the photo ( make sure the photo has the reflection elements for example like the photo below).
2. Check the levels (optional); to balance the black and white color of the photo.
3. Dulplicate the layer, then uncheck the eye of the original layer (let the original layer as the backup), name the layer as PIC1
4. Use any selection tools ( Magic Wand tool, or Lasso tool), and select layer of the sky
5. While you are still in selection tool, right click, and choose Save Selection. and name it SKY
6. CTRL+J the area selected, to copy the selection. name it sky_1, then CTRL+D to unselect.
7. Click the PIC1. and choose Lasso Tool, and right click, choose Load Selection. Then choose SKY
8. Right click, and choose Select Inverse.
9. CTRL+J the selection. name it land_1, then CTRL+D to unselect.
10. CTRL+J the land_1 again. name it land_2.
11. Click on land_1 layer. Go to FILTER>OTHER>HIGH PASS ( choose radius 6.6 ) Change the layer blend into Overlay.
12.Click on land_2 layer. Go to FILTER>OTHER>HIGH PASS ( choose radius 6.6 ) Change the layer blend into Vivid Light.
13. Back to PIC1, Click on Red_Light layer, CTRL+SHIFT+N to create new layer. Name it RED_GRADIENT
14. Choose Gradient Tool, set the foreground layer into red-orange color; Choose the setting like picture below :
17. Drag the Gradient tool from top to bottom of the layer. Set the layer into Color Burn.
18. Finally, play around with dodge tool to highlight the area and burn tool to darken the areas (optional).
Below is all the layers created during the development.
*The tricks are layer blending, gradient tools tricks, high pass and of course dodging and burning.
Tutorial by : Ashikin Abdullah
Photographer & Editing : Ashikin Abdullah
Location : Kuala Perlis, Perlis, Malaysia
What is Lomo? “Lomo photos have a strong and noticable vignette.” [http://photoshoptutorials.ws:80/photoshop-tutorials/].
Therefore we need to add the vignette to the photo.
1. Open the image, you can check your level (optional)
2. Copy the layer ( Ctrl+J)
3. Select/click the top layer and go to Filter>Others>High Pass. Choose the radius between 5.0 to 7.0 (depends on the image)
4. Go to Layer>Layer Style>Blending Option and change the blend mode into Vivid Light
5. Merge down the layer (Ctrl+E)
6. Select the top layer and go to Filter>Distort>Lens Correction. Changes made only in Vignette section. Change the amount and midpoint into negative value, this will make the picture be darker at the boarder/frame. example : Amount: -50; Midpoint: - 40
7. Click on Channel tab or Window>Channel.
8. Invisible all the color except Red Channel, by uncheck all the small boxes and leave only Red Channel with the eye.
9. Go to Image>Adjustment>Brightness&Contrass. Increase the Contrast. Example : +50
10. Now make only Green Channel visible.
11. Go to Image>Adjustment>Brightness&Contrass. Increase the Contrast. Example : +50
12. Now make all the channel visible.
* you can play with the colour balance to make the photo more interesting.
and this is how the final result will be :
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