This is a picture of a very good friend of mine. She has always been self-conscious by the way she looks, thinking she is "overweight". I think looks absolutely beautiful! But I tried my best to improve the photo as much as possible.
I followed the same steps that I did in "Perfectionist" to improve her skin. Which was the spot-healing tool, copying the background, using the Dust and Scratches filter along with Gaussian Blur, all set on the same radiuses as my previous photograph. To preserve what I had done with the previous steps, I had to save this picture as a copy and then reopen it in Photoshop. If I had kept it open, it would have shown through the "painting" and gave her an extremely blotchy look.
With the photo re-opened, I slimmed down her face with the Liquify tool. I pushed part of the picture in around her chin and on her left (our right) cheek. Afterwards, I thought I would bring out the colour of her eyes, which are a dark brown. I created a new layer and used the Elliptical Marquee tool and went around her eyes. Using the Brightness/Contrast tool, I brightened them up a bit, leaving contrast where it was. Finally, I used the Elliptical Marquee tool again and went around her lips to give them a bit more colour. I left brightness where it was at zero and used contrast and brought it up to +2. The background was not touched in this photograph, the lighting is as it was in the original.
No comments:
Post a Comment