When you have the patch selected, drag it to a section of clear skin, in this instance I used the forehead.Īfter this is done, you will notice the patch is too blurred out so go to “Edit” > “Fade Patch Selection,” or just hold down Shift + Ctrl + “F” to lower the opacity until it looks natural. Let’s start with the right eye first (your right, not the subject’s right). Once you have the right tool selected, you want to select the bags under the eyes. Select the Patch Tool, which is located in the small popup menu with the Spot Healing Brush Tool from the earlier step. As you can see the image below, I have highlighted the problem areas that we are going to minimize. Now that we have the most noticeable blemishes taken care of, we need to work on some other parts of the face. Keep your brush size just a bit bigger than the spot you’re correcting. Simply start clicking on the most notable blemishes until the face is a bit clearer. Making sure your brush is around 5px and 0% hardness, select your duplicate layer and zoom in to the subject’s face. If for some reason you have a different icon there, you will need to hold your cursor over the icon until a smaller menu pops out and select the rightmost icon (which looks like a little Band-Aid). Find the Spot Healing Brush Tool located on your toolbar you’ll need to grab that by either clicking on it or pressing “J” on your keyboard. If we zoom into our image, we can see that our model doesn’t have immaculate skin we are going to correct that. Now that we have done that, we have a bluer and richer sky that gives us a more sunny appearance compared to the stormy grey sky in the original picture. When you have finished, change your layer mode to “Overlay,” and drop the opacity down to about 38%.ĭuplicate your blue sky layer, and change the layer mode to “Saturation,” leaving the opacity at 38%. You could also just press Shift + Ctrl + “N”, or going to “Layer” > “New Layer.” To stay organized, name this layer “blue sky.” Once you have done that, select a hard round brush (your default round brush) and paint in the entire background with #44cdff. We’re looking pretty good now as far as lightening up our image goes, but we still have that gray sky in the background.Ĭreate a new layer by clicking the layer icon in between the delete and group folder icons at the bottom of your layer menu. You can refer to the image below so that you know you’re inputting the right values. Our image is still pretty dark, so in order to make it even brighter we need to go to “Image” > “Levels,” (or Ctrl + “L”) and change your first two sliders to 19 and 1.27. Now, as you can see, our image is a bit warmer tonal wise. You should see an immediate change take place. Making sure you are on your duplicated original layer, go to “Image” > “Auto Color,” or you can simply press Shift + Ctrl + “B”. To make our image brighter, we will do a quick auto color adjustment. Duplicating your image not only allows you to switch back and forth to see what changes have been made, but it also keeps you from “destroying” the original image.Īs you can see, our image is a little dark both in the foreground and in the background which makes it look a little “grayed out” and drab. Open the image in Photoshop if you haven’t already.Īs a rule of thumb, and for precaution (because sometimes things can go wrong), I always duplicate my original image. Here is the image before and after our enhancements: You may need to create an account to do this, but the download is free. To make sure you can follow along easily with this tutorial, I recommend downloading the same source file that I’m using ( source image) from. I’ll be working with a Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet, but a mouse or even the touch pad on your laptop will work just as well I have done retouching using all three instruments. We will be brightening our overall image, correcting the subject’s skin, removing some unwanted objects, and making a few other enhancements. Today, we are going to cover some basic photo retouching techniques that enhance an image without making it appear unnatural. Your subject may not be a model, but you can still create a pristine picture that you can be proud of. With a few Photoshop techniques, you can change a boring, flawed photo into something much more eye-catching and professional. Whether it’s for a high fashion magazine, an advertisement for a new product, a marketing promotion, or just for your new Facebook photo, we all end up retouching photos on occasion.
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