CS3 Photoshop Help - Facial Retouching
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In this tutorial we are going to be looking at facial retouching. It’s real easy to do and very effective on your final image.
As you can see in this image below this women has a beautiful smile, but we are going to get rid of the unwanted wrinkles and moles.
The first thing you need to do is open up the image which you are going to alter. Next, you need to duplicate your background layer. Your next step is to go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, you’ll do this on your new layer. Then just click OK.
You now need to set your Layers Blending Mode to Colour. Next you need to double click on that layer which will open the Blending Options. Then you need to un-check the following two options which are R and G. See image below.
We need to use the Curves and the reason we are using the Curves is to balance the colours in your image. You need to create a new Curves Adjustment Layer and you can do this by going to the top of your layer palette. After that you then need to click on the little button which is at the right of the Preset Control and then we need to Select > Load Preset, as this will load the file.
After you have done that we are now going to smooth out the face. You can use any of the Cloning or Healing Tools for this, but in this example the Healing Brush Tool (J) was used. We are going to remove the four freckles which can be seen on her face and body. See image below
To do this you need to create a new blank layer and this should be just above your background layer. Now you need to Select > Healing Brush (J), and at this stage you need to make sure the “Sample All Layers” is checked. Now just paint over the four freckles. If you are doing anything like this make sure you never alter your source image, as you never know when you might need it.
Next we need to duplicate the 3 layers which are below your Curve Layer. To do this you just need to drag them down to the new layer button and then make sure you Press CMD + E as this will merge your 3 duplicates.
Your next step is to Select > Polygonal Lasso Tool. Once you have selected this you need to click around her face, so keep doing this until all the skin is selected. Once you have done this and you’re happy, you need to Press ALT and click on anything which is not skin, eyes, lips, eyebrows etc. Again if you’re happy with this, you need to go back and deselect the areas which have a detail which needs to remain, ie nose, collar bone, dimples etc. You should end up with something like this.
Next you need to invert the selection and to do this we need to Press (Shift + CMD + I), and you need to delete those pixels. If you’re happy, you need to Select > Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. In this example the following figures were used;- the radius 20, the layer opacity was 75%. Now need to select and duplicate the same bottom 3 layers and then Press CMD + E as this will merge the 3 together.
Now you need to put that layer just above the blurred layer. You should now have the new layer selected and you now need to Press CMD + Alt + G. What you are doing now is creating a clipping mask and we do this because the top layer uses the bottom layers transparency for a mask. Next you should still have your new layer selected and need to Select > Filter > Other > High Pass and the setting used for the radius was 4. See image below to see what it should look like.
Once you have done this your next step is to set the blending mode of that layer to Linear Layer and make sure you set the opacity to around 40% and that’s it. See below for the final images, for the Before and After shots.
Wishing you the greatest of success with these Free Photoshop CS3 Tutorials,
- David -
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Comments on CS3 Photoshop Help - Facial Retouching »
Nice tutorial again David your photoshop help on facial retouching makes my life much easier
Hi David, very simple way to retouch a facial image, I can now make my girl look stunning
Very effective way of facial retouching, your CS3 photoshop help is awesome. I’m looking to upgrade to CS4 and I’m sure I’ll have no problems with it by folowing your tutorials.
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