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.

        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.)

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.

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