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This tutorial is described in steps for Adobe Photoshop CS2, but other versions are just as good, et cetera.
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Now, this is a quick and easy step just to touch up the photo skin-wise. I don't want those freckles in the photo, so in my toolbar I'm going to select the healing brush tool. It looks like a band-aid.
Then, on the photo I find a space of skin that I like (for example, party of the cheek where there are no freckles, or the forehead), hold down the ALT key, and click on the good section of skin.
Now I can continue by simple clicking on the freckles, which should be blended over nicely and look like they were never there in the first place.
This is not a major step, but the result is shown below.
This is the image I currently have.
Again, play around with this to your liking according to the photo you're using - again, I'll be making mine darker. Change the elements of the photo by changing the input and output values in the pop up window, you may do so by dragging the graph's endpoints either left or right or up or down. You can also pick a point on the line in the middle of the graph and drag it to adjust the photos.
The settings I've chosen are shown below.
Currently, the overall picture looks like this...
I personally don't like how the hand is pink but the skin is a light orange/gold hue, so I'm going to fix that.
Using the eye dropper tool from the tool bar, while layer "basephoto" is selected, I clicked on the skin showing in the V of
the shirt.
Now, control + shift + n, to create a new layer, or click the new layer icon in the bottom of the layer window.
With the brush tool selected, I'm just going to color in this beige color over the whole hand, including the nails and
the writing. Yes, this looks insanely unrealistic and stupidly dark in comparison to the original skin colors shown.
In the layers window, select "soft light" for this layer, and set the opacity to 37%.
Below is what the picture now looks like.
Select the background layer, right click > duplicate layer, name this threshold, and then drag the layer to sit between the hand color in and levels 1.
Go to image > adjustments > threshold. (Shown here.)
In the pop up, again, change the settings to your liking according to your photo. Try to get a good black/white balance so that you can
still see what's in your picture and so that you may see even more shadows than previously.
The settings I chose are shown below.
Below is how the picture currently looks.
Go to image > adjustments > posterize. In the pop up, type in different values for the levels; I personally chose 11. Set this layer to pin light.
Below is how the picture currently looks.
The lips look too faded out for me, so I'm going to make them darker and livlier by almost matching them to the color
of red on the jacket's crest.
With posterize layer selected, choose the eye drop tool and click on the red on the jacket's crest (bottom right quadrant of the image.) Then
create a new layer, select the brush tool, and in the new layer, color over the lips. Set this layer to color burn, 50% opacity, and drag it
between the posterize layer and the threshold layer.
Below is how the picture currently looks.
Again, this is a personal preference. I want the blonde hair to appear lighter, so with the basephoto layer selected, and the dodge tool from the toolbar, set to range: midtones
and exposure: 50%, I went over the blonde hair once.
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step 06
THIS STEP MAY BE SKIPPED DEPENDING ON YOUR PHOTO.
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step 07
Currently, the layers should be in this order from bottom to top: background, basephoto, layer 1 (the hand color in), levels 1, and then curves 1.
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step 08
Return to the "basephoto" layer, right click, duplicate layer, rename "posterize." Place this layer between threshold and levels 1 layer.
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step 09
THIS STEP MAY BE SKIPPED DEPENDING ON YOUR PHOTO.
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step 10
THIS STEP MAY BE SKIPPED DEPENDING ON YOUR PHOTO.step 11
Between the posterize layer and levels 1, create a new layer and fill it with a gold hue (the color I chose is... R: 244, G: 198, B: 37.)
Set this layer to soft light, opacity: 20%.overview
Started with the one on the left, ended with the one on the right.
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