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Dear Online Friends,
My name is Edy Wee, I am a graphic designer. I
start doing digital imaging since 2001 by using Photoshop 6. Almost 10
hour a day i'm doing imaging (retouching, restoration,
changing backround, etc) with PhotoShop
(now CS3).
I made this sites as a 'guide' to help you
doing good imaging job. For you as beginner, advanced or professional. Also a product that might help you to do your
imaging better.
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A Thing of Beauty is
a Joy with Photoshop |
Human nature always seems to have this predilection with beauty and
what society believes is beautiful. When we are fat, we want to be
slim or thin. When we have the so-called "love handles", we decide we
do not love them anymore, so we go to the gym and exercise until our
tongues fall out from fatigue. We are blessed with dark colored skin,
so we try all the new bleaching products available in the market to
lighten our color. We have white skin so we go to tanning salons to
get olive skin, and the out-in-the-sun color to your skin. We are
naturally brunette but we go to the nearest salon to get our hair done
and died to blonde because they said "blondes always have such fun".
And digital technology is also banking on the partiality of people to
not have fun with what the Lord has blessed them with originally.
I have been in the digital imaging for quite some time now, and what I
regularly encounter are numerous questions on how to remove blemishes
from photos so that their faces would look great and give that
"fashion-magazine look" that the media is glamorizing so much
nowadays. Here are a few suggestions then from a photographer on
beauty retouching.
(Now, if I could just do it in real life, I would be a millionaire by
now.)
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Beauty Retouching with Photoshop |
1 - Try to improve the colors on
the face in your photo as far as you can go. To edit, it is better to
do it in RGB rather than CMYK. With RGB, editing is more flexible and
easy. And explore all the selections in the various feathers. Do not
be afraid to experiment. After all, being creative is all about using
all the choices available.
2 - After editing your color, it's now time to create a new layer.
This is also a tool for you to be able to control your work. Begin
your retouch using a heeling brush and cloning stamp to remove the
things you want removed. Start with the bigger imperfections and move
your way to the littlest blemish. You could also use the heeling brush
to remove the lines under the eyes to create that young look to the
face.
3 - To adjust the size of any part of the face (e.g. big nose), adjust
to your liking with the Liquify filter. Click the Filters menu and
choose Liquify. This tool allows you to smudge, move, squish, and even
distort your image according to your satisfaction. For best results
and easy navigation, turn the grid on. This will let you view the
changes you've made.
For increasing or reducing the size of the area, you can also use the
Warp, although the Pucker and Bloat are most effective with this type
of retouch. Remember to be careful and again, do not be afraid to
experiment. Use the appropriate brush size and go slowly, moving bits
at a time.
4 -To smoothen the skin, use the cloning stamp and carefully apply to
the skin. The best would be to use multiple clicks rather than strokes
to even out the skin tone. This is the part where you need to be
patient. Be careful with your patterns and do not repeat. Also, try to
be creative. Don't worry if you make mistakes along the way. Just go
back to the history palette everytime you create something you don't
like and start again.
5 - For overdoing the smoothing process, just use the history palette
to restore the specific area. If this does not work, try to select and
add the noise filter to simulate the texture of the skin.
Finally, after a little adjustments and a little nip and tuck here and
there, you are ready to view your final image.
According to the photographer, beauty retouching needs patience and a
lot of perseverance. Many methods are available, but there are only a
few tricks to help others retouch their photos. Even for
professionals, this job takes time to finish. However, with time, one
can get faster.
Tools of cut and selection.
tool of cut The tool "cut" serves, like its name indicates it, to cut
an image. In the bar of tools you can select the resolution and the
size of the cut; Later, with the mouse, you draw the "framework" of
the new image. You can move this framework to elect the zone on the
one that to do the setting and, when be ready, do double click with
the mouse for trim.
This tool is very useful to adapt the size of the images to the
impression. For example, the standard size is 10 x 15 cm. If in the
options of the tool to trim you select these measures will be able to
adapt the size of the photography to this format.
selection tool.
selections inside the image. When your have fact a selection inside
the image, any tool that your utilize will apply only inside the
selection. This is very useful, since normally only you will need to
retouch part of the image and, with the selections, the touch results
more exact. Several tools of retouch exist, I mentioned how the more
simple retouch tools are used.
Selections of framework.
The first one is called "tool of rectangular framework" and serves to
do a selection with this form. Only one must do click with the mouse
and to drag until obtaining the size that desire. If you maintain
tight the key <shift> The selection will be regular and will have form
of square. The "tool of rectangular framework" has associates other
tools that are hidden. One of them is the "tool of elliptic
framework", that functions in the same way, but doing a selection in
the shape of ellipse, or of circle if the key <shift> is utilized at
the same time. These tools are very easy to use, but only they are
efficient when we have geometric forms.
Magic Wand This tool serves to select zones of a same color or with a
tone seemed. It is very useful when in an image a continuous fund
appears or a uniform sky but otherwise this tool does not serve of
great aid.
Tie Tool The tool of tie serves to draw a selection by hand raised. It
is utilized doing click with the mouse and dragging it on the zone
that we want to select. To finish a done selection with this tool, is
done double click with the mouse.
COMING SOON ! ! !
A GREAT TECHNIQUE TO CHANGE A
BACKGROUND WITHOUT HAIR DETAILS LOST.

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Only use Adobe PhotoShop ( 7 or above).
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No Plug-in needed. (Maybe you use
another software to remove the background that need "USB dongle"
to use that software. The risk is : 1. expensive 2. use only with 1
computer 3. no flexible
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Better than use Exctract
in PhotoShop. ( You can use extract but as well as my experience it's
difficult to get hair details)
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Everyone can do it. (not only you
as advanced or professional, but as beginner too)
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