Today, as part of my photo retouching series I’m going to make further improvements on the photo I posted on Monday to show you how to use Photoshop to make your eyes appear bigger in photographs. Let’s take a look at the new version of the photograph:
The eyes look more defined, but my skin looks kinda nasty. Mini’s skin, naturally, looks gorgeous, so we won’t have to do much work there. But for me, let’s use the healing brush tool to smooth things out a bit, shall we? To do this, we’re going to first open the image in Photoshop and make sure it is flattened into one layer (Layer –> Flatten Image) from the last time we were editing it. Then, we’ll duplicate the layer (Layer–>Duplicate Layer), and go to the tools menu and choose the Spot Healing Brush Tool.
Now we need to adjust the size to be slightly larger than the spots we want to fix. Let’s start with that pesky mole (that I have since had removed in real life! Talk about making Photoshop easier!)
Now hover the brush over your spot and click the mouse. And the mole is removed, but the edges don’t quite look right.
In order to fix this, first we’ll go to the Fade tool in the Edit menu (Edit –>Fade Spot Healing Brush), and then we’ll adjust the opacity until it looks a little more natural.
That’s better.
Now let’s use the same method to remove all the unsightly blemishes on my face. We might be here for awhile, so I won’t go through them one by one. Just check out the before and after:
Can you see the difference? We’re getting there! Next up: evening out skin tone without it looking crazy fake.
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