A high-profile portrait of Adobe Photoshop Portrait Decoration Techniques (middle)

4, Cosmetic details:

Next, decorate the skin and some details of the picture as a whole. This is the process of portrait photo modification, which is often overlooked.

Create a new layer and name it "retouching." Select the Stamp tool in the toolbox, and change the stamp sample to "current and bottom layer" to modify the character's hair in the upper left corner of the photo.

Next enlarge the nose section and select the Repair Brush tool in the toolbox. Change the sample range of the repair brush to "all layers." Enlarge the part of the nose and press the ALT key on the keyboard to define a sample to repair the skin of the nose section.

Then the white dress with the shoulder part of the character is decorated. First, merge the layers into a copy. Click on the "Retouching layer" and press the keyboard's ctrl+alt+shift+e key to merge and copy a new layer. Rename the merged new layer to "merge", which is convenient for later operation.

Select the Quick Select tool in the Toolbox (The Quick Selection tool is a new selection tool in Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS2 and previous versions of users who can apply the magic wand or lasso tool for the following actions.) With the "Quick selection Tool", the character of the white clothing tape selected, in the selection process, you can press the ALT key to select, press SHIFT to select, these operations and ordinary selection operation is the same.

Next, select the Patch tool in the Toolbox.

Drag the selection to the right and find a good skin to repair.

Continue to choose "Patch Tool", will finish after the clothing belt skin modification (figure in red circle skin), lets the skin appear the transition nature.

The skin of the clavicle and neck is then modified. First close the "eyes" before the merge layer so that it does not appear. Then click on the "retouching" layer, press the keyboard ctrl+alt+shift+e key, merge the displayed layer.

Select the Lasso tool in the Toolbox to select a piece of skin that is a good layer of clavicle. As shown in figure:

Next, press the CTRL+J key to copy the portion of the selection to the new layer. and drag the layer to the top of the merge layer. Click on the "merge" layer before the eye, let it be displayed again.

Move the copied skin to the clavicle part that needs to be repaired, then press ctrl+t key, free transform, adjust angle, let the clavicle position can be on a horizontal line.

Next, add a layer mask to the skin-patching layer, with the brush tool, set the edge hardness of the brush to "0", set the color picker foreground color to black, and mask the edges of the skin patch block to blend with the character's skin, then reduce the opacity of the patch layer to 75%. Let the whole look more natural.

Create a new layer, select the Stamp tool in the toolbox, change the transparency to 20%, and change the sample to "all layers" sampling mode. The shadow of the clavicle and neck of the character is newly modified.

Continue to repair the skin of the neck, as indicated by the red circle in the figure.

Continue with the Stamp tool, restore by shadow, and then reduce the opacity of the layer to 75%. After the completion of the figure:

Create a new layer, change the opacity of the stamp tool to 100%, and tighten the contour of the neck. Press the keyboard "[" key to shrink the stamp diameter. Then copy the shadow to strengthen the contour of the neck. When finished, reduce the opacity of the layer to 75%. Figure: (Stamp tool, brush tool, stain healing brush tool and Healing brush tool: You can change the brush diameter at any time through the keyboard's "[" and "]" two keys. )

Press the ctrl+t of the keyboard to select the free deformation command, in the deformation marquee click the right mouse button, select "Deformation" in the menu, press the keyboard CTRL key with the mouse click Adjustment Point, the shadow of the neck to do a little perspective processing, so that the overall will be more real.

Create a new layer again, select the Stamp tool, change the stamp's mode to "brighten", and the opacity set to "30%" and then highlight the surrounding skin slightly on the side of the shadow you just made, and change the opacity of the layer to 60% when finished.

The layers are not named because they add a lot of layers to the cosmetic character details, so to make it easier to do so, they can be made into groups for later operation. Press the CTRL key on the keyboard click all layers from the merge and merge layers and press the keyboard ctrl+g keys to set these selected layers as layer groups.

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