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Let us begin with a process you are going to start using rather frequently in Photoshop if you start doing any touch-ups at all, and that is doing skin improvement. This is something that is obviously done in high fashion photography all the time. I would even say to the extent of making the models look not natural; I mean they don't even look like real human beings, they look like something invented. Less is more many times when you are doing these kinds of adjustments so do not go crazy like some of these guys do. Now let us begin and we are going to use a combination of the clone stamp tool, patch tool, and the healing brush tool in these corrections. So we are going to start and really kind of clear out a landing zone, I guess is a better way to put it, of skin right in here so that when we start using the patch tool we have a place to sample from. So we are going to go ahead and start using the clone patch tool and smooth out on area down here. Let's increase this just a bit. Now let's go over here and get the patch tool. Get as close to the corner of the lip as you can. Take this over here, look how that improved, not bad. And we will get all these different places sampled from here, that is what you want to sample from. See how this is working? Do not worry about the shape of your selection, do not even worry about it. Just right it is you see it. And we will correct some of this stuff; we will smooth it out and make it look better than it does. I am going to take out the shine right here so it will match. That went rather well. Okay, now let us go back with the healing brush tool, and we will sample from here and we will go in and make adjustments. I think we are going to take that shine out of the skin of the tip of the nose there, the bridge of the nose, except we transferred color, which we don't want. It was sampled from here, that looks better and one tiny little correction down here, it's driving me nuts, it is the little things that bother you when you start doing this. This is a high-resolution image, in which it's very easy to get those shades out of balance and not so easy to get them back. And I am purposely being kind of picky with this because I want it to look really good, and let's take the shine out of the chin. Not a bad result, although we do need to go in and get this area right here. The more you do, the more you see on this stuff. Now we have a break in the tonal continuity between here and here. So let's take this, now that fixes that. Not bad, picked that right up. Now we are going to finish it off by putting just a bit of blur in there just to kind of really set it off; that's too much. I think that looks pretty good, take a look before and after. Before and after, what a difference.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |