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much airbrushing in blurry skin. You don’t want to paint right
on the eyes, lips, or nose edges, but otherwise go to town.
5. Once you’re done it will still look a little too blurry, so reduce the Opacity
of the layer. There is no set amount that will look best for every image, but
I find that 20- 6 0% opacity usually looks best. The reason for this is that
we don’t want to use too much of the blur effect – less is usually better.
You can accidentally get very fake, plastic -looking skin by keeping the
blurry layer too visible. When it works you get smooth skin that still has a
bit of the original texture. I used 45% , and it seems alright. It’s usually a
lot less for guys, if at all, as this effect looks pretty odd with facial hair.
6. Make another copy of the top non-blurred layer (Eyes and Teeth ), drag
this one above everything else in the Layers list and rename this layer
Sharpen . Click on
Filter > Other > High Pass… and adjust the Radius until
you can see some detail and color in the eyes and hair, but keep it pretty
low. I used radius = 6.3 for this picture. Click OK. Now this will look
weird, so let’s do a couple things to it.
7. Change the layer mode to “Hard Light”. Set the opacity down to about
50% You can adjust this to taste after the next step, but this is where I liked it for my picture.
8. Click on
Layer > Layer Mask > Hide All. Now
paint this layer in using a white brush on the
layer mask – the same way you painted in the
blurry layer – but this time only paint on the
eyes, lips and hair, because those are what we
want to be nice and sharp and detailed. (I also
painted on her piercings…)
See how this combination of sharpening and
blurring really makes your subject pop ? We’ve
still got to fix the brightness levels and color
using levels and curves adjustment layers. We’ll
cover that in the next and final installment in
Plain Pic to Glamour Girl, Photo Retouching
Techniques.
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About Charles McNally
Hello! My name is Charles, I am a digital photographer and I've been using Photoshop
since version 4 was new. I'm going to be writing some graphics tutorials and I hope
you enjoy them. I do a lot of research for these things, but feel free to let me know
if I miss something.
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