Here is a collection of proven techniques for correcting portrait photographs using Photoshop CS5.
Let me know if the YouTube link stops working. I also have a copy of the file for reference.
Removing Red Splotches from Skin
Best to watch the video. Backup file Red Skin Correction in Photoshop (HD).mp4 made on NAS.
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Skin Smoothing
Best to watch the video.
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Removing Hot Spots
Here the the technique I have settled on.
- Create a new layer and change mode to Darken and set opacity to ~72%
- It is slightly modified from this video,
- Zoom in
- Use clone tool selecting a good area and draw on with the following clone tool settings,
Select a brush with a soft edge effect
Set mode to normal
Opacity to 50%
Flow default of 100% is good
- Current and below (for the layer selection)
- Trick is to use as big a brush as possible to fill the white area
- Don't need to be too accurate as this is layer
- Finally copy merged to create a new layer and apply any additional effects
This is the gaussion blur technique and looks really good too. Have not yet tried it.
- Duplicate layer
- Filter Blur, Guassian Blur,
- Turn up radius until shiny spots disappear usually 9
- Filter, Add Noise
- Amount between 2 and 3
- Guassian
- Select Eraser,
- Turn hardness down to 0
- Adjust brush size as needed
- Erase top layer where the glare exists
Here is another mask based tutorial I want to go through with a little bit more detail to see how it shows highlights better.
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Touch Up
Best to watch the video.
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How to straighten an image - http://
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