In our image manipulation we first took an large image of a face without makeup from the web, and then duplicated the face to create a new layer off of which to work from which we called face.
On this new duplicated layer we first evened out the redness of the facial image by first manipulating the shadow and light of the image subtly using curves, then we played with color balance in shadows, highlights and mid-tones of the skin to even it out better. Our final area of manipulation to even out skin was to use hue and saturation to again subtly manipulate a little more the image.
Next we used an unsharp filter on the face from under filters, to sharpen the eyes. We then used the clone stamp (lower opacity is more subtle) to get rid of skin blemishes like scars, zits, bruises, warts, large pores, etc.
At this stage we created a duplicate layer of this layer, and called it skin. On this layer we used a quick mask to redden out the skin of the face and neck of the face image, and then clicked of the mask, were left with a marquee around the skin select inverse-ed the marquee, and then deleted it so on this layer we are only left with skin. We added a Gaussian blur to this layer at about a 4 and then put this layers opacity down to about 85.
We then created another duplicate layer of the "face" layer, not the skin layer, and placed it over top the skin layer only to clip it in. We called this new layer face 2. Under filter / other, we placed a high pass filter over top this layer, and set it again to about 4, and then under layer options we selected linear light. We then set the opacity of this layer to 40.
We selected now the layers called face, skin, and face 2, and under layer, we merged them into a single layer. We called this merged layer face.
We duplicated the new face layer and then on the duplicate layer we used quick mask to select the whites of the eyes to adjust them to better brightness, and then the lips to set them to a darker red tone. We then, under filter, pressed on Liquify and were taken into a window of manipulations including push and pull tools as well as pucker and bloat to enlarge the eyes and lips of the face, narrow the chin, ect.
I felt rather bad using that image of the woman, to post here the before and after photos. I just would not want to imagine her finding this blog and the image of her. That would be sad :( So then I used a crappy image of myself and celebrified it up using the methods described above.
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| Me - blemishes and all |
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| So I evened out skin tone, got rid of blemishes, plumped the lips, rouged the lips, restructured the nose, etc, and this is why one should never look at magazines and feel bad :) It is all fake. |
