A concise tutorial on post-PS processing of Photoshop portrait photography

The following is the original portrait photography that we are going to revise today:

Open this picture in PS.

At first glance, the color of this picture is darker, and the first step is to highlight the picture. Copy a layer of this picture.

The blending mode is selected as "screen", and the opacity is adjusted as needed. This tutorial is set to 45%.

Enlarge the picture, choose the Soft tool, brush according to the need to choose, the pressure selection is lower, here is tentatively 24%. Soft treatment of the skin of the model, if you encounter a larger spot, you can use the Copy Stamp tool.

Soft is a very meticulous work, be sure to slowly, different skin position to choose different size of the brush, but the pressure must not be too high, I generally are under 45. When grinding the skin, pay attention to the position of the eyes, lips, face contour, etc., to avoid the softening of these parts. Moreover, the softening should not only be on the face, the body exposed skin should be treated.

This is done after the softening:

After the softening, you should adjust the color, of course, the first step is the same.
Color adjustment to see how personal color, a lot of people say that the color, in fact, is not very good. Adjust color can use "color balance", "optional Color", "curve" and so on ... Let's adjust the color balance first. Adjust the parameters as shown in the figure:

Adjusted the color balance, found that the screen is still a bit yellow. We then use the optional color, the screen of the yellow part of the adjustment. Adjust parameters as shown:

OK, skin and color adjustment finished. Then do a sharpening to make the picture more sharp. Converts the image pattern to lab format.

Select Channel--Lightness

Select the filter--sharpening--USM. Sharpen the degree according to your own observation options, here the setting as shown:

Reverses the image to RGB format. OK, all the adjustments are complete, is it really simple? The last picture, the adjustment before and after the contrast: