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10:47 AM Enhance portrait photo with natural look

In this tutorial i will show you a way that gives your portrait a very nice, smooth but still very  natural look. Your photo wil have a real skin with lively skin, nice shadow and highlight, lively and sexy lips and eyes. It gives you the best and natural look that's possible. Here is image before retouching:   We can see her skin is dull with many blemishes, and nothing special on her face. We'll be going to change it. 1. Open and duplicate your pic twice . First we will sharpen the skin. Choose Filter-Sharpen-Unsharp mask on layer copy 2 ( depending on the size and the sharpeness of your pic). With my stock i choose the value: Then lower opacity to 30-70% till you feel ok ( i choose 40% because i want skin look smoother but if you want it sharper you can raise opacity)   2. Now choose layer copy (between background and layer copy 2). Apply Surface blur: Add a layer mask, choose Hide all. Then use soft white brush paint on her skin avoiding the edges of face. You can use eraser to edit the edge that are softened unintetionally and unneccesarily. 3. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E. Now we wil use Spot healing brush to remove blemishes. Press J key to open it. Choose Diameter, Hardness... depending on the largeness of blemishes. I choose brush with size 16, Hardness 7%, Spacing 25% to spot on blemishes . You should zoom out , 150 or 200% to do it better. Here is my result after doing it: 4. Now we will do a step to make the skin look more natural. Apply Unsharp mask again: If you want the skin look smooth you can choose small value or skip this step. 5. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E. Add a new Hue/saturation layer with Saturation is -13. Then a new curves  and brightness/contrast layer:   6. Then its to add shadow and highlight on the face. Create a new layer , use hard white brush to paint on her cheeks, the postion under the eyes, on the forhead and the chin like this: Lower opacity to 20% and then apply Gassian blur, 17 px. We have result: Add a new layer again. Use hard brush with color thats fit skin to pain on her cheeks, like this: ( i choose c26049). Then lower opacity to 20% and apply Gassian blur, with 15 px. This technique will work nicer on the face with high cheeks because then shadow and highlight will create a nice glow contrast. 7. Create a new layer and use soft brush with 6ee0f5 to paint on the center of the eyes, set this layer to Color 100%: 8. New layer again, use soft brush, fa997f paint on her lips and set to Soft light 100%. 9. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E and lower opacity to 50%. . Use Dodge Tool with highlight range, exposure 62% paint on the lips to make a sexier and glossy look:   10. Create a new level layer :   Final result:

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Total opinions: 26
0   1 Noname   (2010-06-01 3:57 AM) Doesn't really look natural to me... The skin is OK but the lips doesn't look good and the eyes just look fake. 0   2 Admin   (2010-06-01 2:26 PM) I like blue eyes and brilliant lips, and i think it fits on blondes when they can set off her face. But it depends on the eyes of viewers. Thanks for your comment anyway 0   3 Marcus   (2010-06-03 6:20 PM) I like the way u've done it, You making it more simpler to do 0   4 Admin   (2010-06-03 9:38 PM) thanks, im glad i could give something useful 0   5 afreen   (2010-06-09 7:03 PM) hi 0   6 Admin   (2010-06-09 9:36 PM) hi 0   7 asdf0000   (2010-06-10 6:40 PM) hello 0   8 Bella   (2010-07-05 1:28 AM) This looks completely fake, her eyes look ugly now and her skin like omg. Not natural at all! 0   9 antoy   (2010-07-07 9:21 PM) i didn't really like the outcome but the tutorial is great. thnx for sharing it. im looking forward for your next tutorial more power!!! 0   10 Admin   (2010-07-07 9:51 PM) Hi antoy, so kind of you. I will try to make my next ones better. Thanks a lot for your support . Have a nice day 0   11 Diane   (2010-08-25 5:02 AM) Thank you so much for this tutorial! It is one of the best ones I have tried. 0   12 Admin   (2010-08-25 4:57 PM) thank you, im glad its helpful for you. 0   13 Meraj   (2011-06-03 9:53 PM) I like this 0   14 Admin   (2011-06-03 10:05 PM) nice to know 0   15 Sandra   (2011-08-30 6:09 PM) one of the first tutorials I have seen that pay attention to highlights and shadows. Well done. 0   16 Admin   (2011-09-04 0:00 AM) Im not very skilled but im happy if you and people found my tutorial useful. Thank you 0   17 moi   (2011-11-14 4:56 PM) the make up and the eyes don't look natural at all, and it is way to pixlated/over edited 0   18 maiiestill   (2012-02-01 9:56 AM) so nice,, i should try it!! 0   20 Admin   (2012-02-13 4:49 PM) thanks 0   19 diwakar   (2012-02-12 5:42 PM) very good skil go ahed 0   21 Admin   (2012-02-13 4:50 PM) thanks for your comment 0   22 Monica   (2012-07-09 2:59 AM) Wowwwww, your work is soooo beautiful!! I can't tell you how helpful this tutorial is. I haven't tried it but I tried another one and yours is giving a lot better results! I hope I can do this as good as you did in your example. Thanks so much!! 0   24 Admin   (2012-09-27 11:31 PM) you're very welcome, thanks for letting me know it 0   23 somi   (2012-09-24 3:43 PM) hi,its really good yar ,bt it dont have a natural look 0   25 Admin   (2012-09-27 11:31 PM) 0   26 adiba   (2013-01-27 6:15 PM) Hi! I like how you manipulated the skin but I must agree with some of the other comments that the eyes and lips cause they don't really look natural. Great tutorial though, really simple and easy to follow. keep up the good work!

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