Retouching your Pictures with the Photoshop Tools at your Disposal
You no longer have to be totally photogenic to look great in pictures! That is great news for those of us that may not like what shows up in photographs. Surely you have photos from holidays past where folks have red eyes or that gothic building you were so in love with was obscured. No need to fret. You can recapture you memories by touching up your photos in Photoshop.
Photoshop has an abundance of tools for whatever picture ailments you may have. To rework those eyes and get the red out, you will need to first calibrate your monitor. Open up the image and go to “Image>Duplicate” to create a second image and close the original. If you are using Photoshop 6 or an earlier version, click on View>New View. If you are using Photoshop 7 got to Window>Documents>New Window and your image will appear in another window. Focus in with zoom on one of the windows so that the eyes are as large as possible. The other window should be set to 100%. After you have created a new layer, choose the eyedropper and pick up the iris color. On the new layer, paint over the iris of the eye without covering the eyelids.
Next, you need to choose Filters>Blur>Gaussian and use one pixel to soften the edges. The layer blend mode needs to be moved to Saturation and the red will leave without taking out the highlights. Sometimes the eyes will appear to be too gray and look empty. If you run into this problem, create another saturation layer and switch the blend mode to Hue. If Hue turns the color too dark, take the opacity level on the Hue layer down a bit. Once you are satisfied with your corrections you can bring the other layers down.
If you are working on the pupil area of the eyes, it I best to use the burn tool. A few clicks of the burn tools should take the pupil color down to the proper level. Be sure to use the eraser tool to get rid of any over-spray there might be before you merge the layers.
Do you have a few blemish-plagued pictures that you like, except for the less than perfect facial blemishes? Well, you no longer have to hide those photos when company comes over. Fix them up with Photoshop and no on ever has to know that you kid had a little acne outbreak. Or, maybe you did not get any sleep the night before your graduation. You can fix your facial imperfections in a matter of minutes.
First you need to open the image and go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Next you need to put the radius high enough to cover up any facial imperfections. Stick with one or two pixels. Then click OK to apply the Gaussian blur to the photo. Go to the History palette and click on the small arrow that in the history palette and pick New Snapshot. Name the photo blurred and go back to the History palette and pick the first snapshot. Revert it back to the first image state and it should save the filename. Next you have to click on the square beside the blurred snapshot to make it the source of the history brush. Make a new layer and choose the History button. Using a soft brush, paint on a new layer. This will take the paint from the blurred snapshot and apply it. Once you are satisfied with your handy work all you need to do is click on Layer>Merge>Down and the retouched layer will join with the original image, creating a new photo. Remember that once you have merged the two, that is it. No more changes can be made. So be sure you are absolutely happy with what you have created.
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