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Photo Retouch Tutorial

In this tutorial we will create something like glamour photo retouch tutorial. We will use Adobe Photoshop as our tool of

choice for retouching a photo and making almost a ready design out of it. You will have some files for support like some

brushes (download brushes) and the initial photo itself to practice on. So let’s start out talk on making PS photo retouch.

Here is the photo I found in the internet on Comfight.com, a very useful service if you want to find any photos.

photo retouch tutorial

Here it is. A very mystical mood photo but in the same time very bright (the eyes have it).

Now the first thing I’m going to do here is to change my hue to a little bit “into the blue”, just a little bit. It’s not

really necessary for you to do this, depending on the monitor you got and so on, but I feel that it will be better if the

picture will be bluer saturated.

photo retouch tutorial

I will turn OFF the saturation layer for now.
Now if you look and the initial picture you will probably notice that the light on the girls face is too strong, too much

white.

I will fix that, I’m going to use a low flow (about 20% flow depending on the tablet and the brush settings) brush. So create

a new layer and start. If this is your first tutorial to read it will be a little bit harder. Anyway I’ll try to give you the

possibility to download this mask, shall we say, file.

Os just watch the pictures now.

photo retouch tutorial

photo retouch tutorial

I also wanted to give a little bit of texture to the face.

photo retouch tutorial

And there we go:

photo retouch tutorial

So we got rid of this face lighting a little bit. Now we have that face color and form balance.

Next step: the background.
Let’s make ha background a little more artistic. I have a special method for this one. I will use complex brushes for that.

Listen to this: for my basic brush I will chose standard PS soft edged brush with all the dynamics possible set to pen

pressure.

For the second brush (dual brush) I will take brush 600 that I have in my list. This is a real flat one.

photo retouch tutorial

photo retouch tutorial

photo retouch tutorial

Create a new layer just now.

photo retouch tutorial

And here is the amazing effect that my brush does.

photo retouch tutorial

The next brush to use will be a little dot scatter brush.

photo retouch tutorial

Create a new layer to use a new brush on.

Before using this brush I will apply a layer style to my new balk layer.
Outer glow:

photo retouch tutorial

And here is my brush with outer glow already. You can now paint with outer glow with any brush. But all we need is little

sparkles made with scatter dot brush.

photo retouch tutorial

Create another layer.

photo retouch tutorial

The idea here is to create a blast of color texture.

Step 1: tap several times with splatter brush.

photo retouch tutorial

Warp the whole layer.

photo retouch tutorial

photo retouch tutorial

Do the same thing on a different layer, oh yea, and do change the brush color to something like skin tone.

photo retouch tutorial

photo retouch tutorial

Erase the effect around the face on these 2 layers.

photo retouch tutorial

photo retouch tutorial

Now the final thing we can do here is to pick up a soft brush, set the flow jitter to about 1%, select the Overlay color

mode, and to paint over the whole blue on the image.

photo retouch tutorial

So this is it on our photo retouch, hope you found out something useful from this tutorial. And remember that such

applications as Photoshop offer a wide range of color manipulations. SO practice your color and see you next time.

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