Retouch Basics for Graphic Designers and Photographers

Retouch Basics for Graphic Designers and Photographers
Retouch Basics for Graphic Designers and Photographers
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Back to grain layer Duplicate it.

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Place layer on the top. Change blending mode to Divide, change opacity to 8%.

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Add adjustment layer - Brightness/Contrast. Set it as shown.

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Cool! Now fill mask with black. Then, with soft, big brush draw some strokes on her skin.

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It's time to add make-up. I think her blonde hair would be suit to blue eyeshadow. Add new layer. Pick soft brush and decrease opacity of it to 50%. Draw gently eyeshadows.

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Change blending mode of this layer to Hue. Decrease opacity to 53%. It will be base for eyeshadows.

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Create new layer. With the same brush settings and color, draw on the edges of an eye.

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Now change blending mode of this layer to Hue. Again. :).

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For the smoky eyes effect, draw some shadows on the top of an eye. Use the same brush settings as in step 19.

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Change this layer blending mode to Multiply.

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Add new layer. Change its blending mode to Multiply. Set smaller brush and draw edge of the eyelid (the same settings as in step 19, but size is 1-2px).

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If is needed, you can decrease opacity of created layer to 59%.

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Now you'll make eye iris. Add new layer. With soft, big, blue (#115279) brush, fill eye iris.

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Change blending mode to Color Dodge - iris will be brighter and more saturated.

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To avoid flatty color of an eye, add new layer. use small, soft brush and dark-brown color. Draw edges of an iris.

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Now you can change its blendnig mode to Overlay.

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Add new layer. With small, brown brush make lashes longer. Use pressure opacity of brush to more real look. Arrows will guide you, how to draw lashes strokes.

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Time to make a lips! Add new layer. Create rough fill of lips. Use soft, pink brush - I used cold tone of pink, because I think it suit best for her.

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Change blending mode of this layer to Soft Light.

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To give full lightning of her lips, add new layer and with soft, white brush draw strokes of light.

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If you like this effect, you can leave, but I changed blending mode of this layer to Hard Light.

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Now you should make facial features harder. Add new layer. Pick soft, big brush, with dark-beige (#ac7d79) color. Fill edges of her face, add some strokes on eyelid.

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17 comments on “Retouch Basics for Graphic Designers and Photographers”

  1. Ich hatte der Zeit nur mitbekommen, er sollte sein amateur dreier Studium Amerika gemacht und Japan für einen Elektronikkonzern gearbeitet haben.

  2. Directions are very unclear. Fragmented sentence and simple directions does not provide the correct way to navigate through photoshop at all. I was very hard to follow these directions without knowing every single little tool in photoshop. Photoshop fucks you up if you don't have everything exactly correct.

  3. Looks just like an advertisement! Very well done. This has certainly given me some good clues into photo retouching.

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