Photoshop a Face

So you aren't completely comfortable with how your face looks? Photoshop is an easy way to fix any flaws, and make your photo look a lot better, for a price.

Steps

  1. Buy or download Photoshop. There are many versions, regular (Photoshop 6, Photoshop 7), elements (Photoshop Elements 7.0 is the newest) and CS. Cs is the very expensive, around $800. Elements is great for beginners because it costs less than $100 and it includes most of the features you will need to use.
  2. Open up Photoshop, and paste your picture in.
  3. Make sure your original is saved on your computer somewhere, just in case.
  4. Even out your skin tone. This can be accomplished a few ways. The most basic is just "auto-fixing" it. If you are more experienced with Photoshop, there are alternative ways. What you are trying to do here is get rid of shine and redness.
  5. Get rid of pimples! Grab the clone stamp tool, hit alt where the skin looks good near the pimple, and then draw over the pimple. Do this as much as you want to all the pimples.
  6. Repeat with flyaway hairs that are in the face. If they are over the eyelashes or eyebrows, it is too tricky to get rid of them, so just leave them there- no one will notice.
  7. Take your free selection tool, and feather it anywhere from 10-50px depending on your image. Select your forehead, top of your nose, cheeks, and chin. Go to filter - blur - Gaussian blur. Blur your selection so that the skin looks perfectly smooth, but not too much that it doesn't look realistic. Play around with it a little! If you have freckles, do not select them.
  8. Pluck any extra eyebrow hairs with the same method used to get rid of pimples and flyaways.
  9. Whiten eyes. Get your free selection tool, and feather it to 1-5px depending on your image. Select the whites of both eyes. Go to brighten/contrast, and brighten them.
  10. Now we will do the irises. Take your burn tool and burn the outside of the colored part of your eye. Take the dodge tool and dodge the inner part, outlining the black (but not touching it). If you want to change the color, then select the colored part with your elliptical select (the circle one) and open a new layer. Fill it with the color you want. Experiment with the layer setting - soft light, overlay, anything you want.
  11. To whiten teeth, be very careful! You do not want ever to make it black and white, as this will look terrible. It is a very amateur mistake. There are some great in depth tutorial on youtube for it though.
  12. Publish online for everyone to see your beauty.



Warnings

  • Don't photoshop all your images, only your profile pictures or ones you want to impress someone with. It can take time to photoshop an image perfectly, and you don't want to become addicted!
  • If you do this to all your photos, you run the risk of the "Jane? Is that YOU? You look so different from your photos!" - syndrome.

Things You'll Need

  • Photoshop
  • A basic knowledge of PS
  • An image to be edited. Don't edit someone else's without their permission, they might be mad!

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