Photo Enhancements
Who wouldn't like to make their photos look professional? I will show you how to take your cleaned up photos and now make them look professional.
Look at the bottom of the page for interesting articles on celebrities and their touched up photos.
Remove Acne and tone down the redness of the photo
Softening Skin
Dodge and Burn using curves
Original Photo Natural Beauty Adjustments High Fashion Adjustments
Dodge and Burn Tutorial
1. Adjustment layer - curves, hit the finger, eye drop lightest point and drag up to bring up exposure
rename layer DODGE
hit command + i to invert
* we need to invert the mask so we can paint on it
2. Do the same thing but this time, colour pick a dark layer, drag down
rename layer BURN
hit command + i to invert
3. Now we are going to paint more light and dark tones
Make sure you have a soft brush chosen, opacity and flow are low to start.
You will have to play with them to find your perfect match. Each area of the face can differ depending how you want the
light to play.
Make sure the foreground colour is set to white.
4. In the dodge mask, we are going to add any light that needs to be adjusted. possibly the middle of the forehead to
balance out the tones, down the nose and chin, underneath the eyebrow bone, inside the eye area (near nose), the
white parts of the eye, middle of the lips. This is also a technique that professional makeup artists do when using
contouring techniques.
5. In the burn layer mask we want to now add more shadows. Using a bigger brush and possibly a higher opacity and
flow setting, add shadows to the sides of her face, darken her eye brows, around the rims of the eyes, the eye crease,
the eyeshadow. You may want to lower the opacity and go lightly around the bottom sides of her nose. If you want a
softer lip, do not dodge. If you would like it bolder, then dodge it. At this point, you also may want to dodge her hair
and the background.
6. Go back and add any burns that need to be added.
7. Put both of the dodge and the burns into a folder called NORMAL
8. Duplicate this folder
9. Rename duplicate folder to MULTIPLY
10. Now in the MULTIPLY folder, change the burn to multiple and opacity to 64% (play around with that number)
Hollywood Photo Enhancements (or should we say manipulations)
