We will give you a detailed analysis of photoshop software and share with you the post-building tutorials on smart skin.
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Experienced people often soften their skin. The traditional method is to use Gaussian blur and High Pass Filter to beautify the skin, the advantage is that the skin is smooth and sharp, and the normal texture is retained. The disadvantage is that the steps are complex and complex, and several layers need to be mixed. Now, you can directly use "smart objects" for processing, greatly reducing the number of steps. The biggest advantage is that it is easy to modify again, and even enhances the smooth texture and convenience in the later process.
Beautify the skin has two most important aspects: one is to make the skin smooth, and maintain pore texture, the other is bright white beautification, but also make the skin even. Some novice skin polishing, although it can make the skin very smooth, but there is no pores and texture, like rubber, very strange, and many veterans will use a few layers, combined with fuzzy filter and color cutting tools, smooth skin with texture. However, this method is troublesome, and layers overlap and order. Now there is a more convenient tool "Intelligent Object", which not only can be adjusted at will, but also all kinds of filters are in the same layer, there is no need to mix several layers, both the operation and difficulty are more convenient. In addition to softening, we also need to skin whitening. We generally adjust the overall brightness and improve some areas where the skin color is uneven. We can do this in many ways to avoid the appearance of a bright spot on the face, this is a little simpler. We use a brush tool to control the color to improve the non-uniformity of light in a small area.
(1) analyze the source image
In this way, the photo is a basic portrait, and the skin and makeup of the Model are very good. All we have to do is beautify the skin. First, make the skin more smooth and white, and then reduce the shadow concentration, even skin color.
(Exercise picture)
(2) copy layers
First, copy the background layer to the copy icon of the panel, or click "layers" & "copy layers, this new layer is a very important step, and you will be able to copy layers first in the future.
(3) change the hybrid mode
Next, we changed the layer blending mode and selected "strong light source" on the blending mode panel. This made the photo highly contrasting and colorful. This is also a required step. Don't worry, the screen will be restored after modification.
(4) reverse phase
Invert the photo and select "image" & rarr; "adjust" & rarr; "negative effect 」. In the past, when multiple layers were used, each layer had to be reversed and set their respective blending modes. Now, it is much easier to select a reversed layer.
(5) convert to a smart object
After the inversion, change the layer to "intelligent object". In "layer" & rarr; "Intelligent Object" & rarr; "convert to intelligent object 」, the advantage is that the newly added filter can be attached to all layers, and the icon will change after the change, as a reminder.
(6) Gaussian blur
We first use the Gaussian blur filter, which is set to about 2.5 pixels. As the layer has been reversed, the blur filter is not blurred, but sharpening, so the larger the pixel value, the photo becomes more acute.
(7) pay attention to the filter value
We will try to increase the value of the filter to 4 or 6 pixels. You will find that the pixels are getting bigger and bigger, the details are getting rough, and the edge of the scene is greatly sharpened, especially the pores will become coarse, this is not ideal, so we need to reduce the value.
(8) photo softening
Then, use the "color shortcut" function to soften the photo. This feature was previously used only by the English name "High Pass Filter". It was originally used to sharpen a photo. However, because the image has been reversed, the sharpening effect becomes softening. The larger the value, the more obvious the softening effect.
(9) adjust the softening degree
The advantage of this method is that the skin texture is retained in the softening process, but do not go too far. Otherwise, the photo will show obvious softening and strange effect with obvious pores. So how much is softening? We recommend that you use about 6 pixels.
(10) brush control
Because there is no need to soften the eyes, mouth and other places, we will use a black mask to hide the softening effect, and then use a white brush to wipe the skin, reproduce the young slide, of course, do not brush the facial features, keep sharp.
Hide with mask
What we have just done is to soften the entire image, regardless of whether the clothes and background will be changed. In fact, we only need to modify the skin. Now we can directly operate on this smart object. The method is very simple. You only need to use a black mask to hide the softening, and then use a white brush to paint the skin. This will soften the skin without interfering with the sharp area. In layers & rarr; layer masks & rarr; hide all, enable the black mask. When you paint the paint, make sure that the foreground color is white and set the opacity.
(11) adjust opacity and traffic
Select the paint brush tool, pay attention to the foreground as white, and then set the opacity and traffic of the paint brush. Now we feel that the softening effect in the early stage is good, instead of lowering the opacity, but the traffic is reduced to about 30%.
(12) face processing
First, process the face. In addition to the facial features, you can fl the other skin. After the facial features are processed, the skin will obviously become slippery, while the pores will be kept in detail. If you think the pores are too obvious, you can also change the "color shortcut 」.
(13) handling neck
In addition to the face, the body's skin also needs to be soften, or the face has been processed, and the neck is kept as is, the effect will be very illegal. After we use a brush, the human skin will be significantly improved.
(14) processing individual pores
After such processing, there should be some coarse pores on the face, which need to be cleared independently. The simplest way is to combine the layers into a new layer and use Shift + Ctrl + Alt + E, change to a new layer, and then use the stain repair brush.
(15) use a blank layer for restoration
Add a blank layer first. This is a very important step. You can do it again if you accidentally make a mistake. The Restoration method is to clear it with an eraser tool. We will demonstrate the usage of this layer independently.
Blank layer repair example
When we fix the dark part of the skin, we add a blank layer. Some friends may not understand why there is a blank layer. In fact, this is to facilitate modification, if you fill in the color of the photo directly, you need to go back to the previous step once you fill in the error. Now, even if the blank layer is wrong, you can simply use an eraser to clean the blank layer, as shown in the figure below. We used the neck as an example to demonstrate excessive modification. You will see obvious color changes on the neck, and the lines on the neck have changed, but we can recover it directly.
Use the eraser tool and click it on the blank layer. The Eraser can set a lower opacity and gently erase it. In order to demonstrate this, it will use the strongest intensity.
The modified image is erased gradually. You can see that the photo is restored to the unmodified image without causing any damage. This blank layer modification method is often used in the later stages of many portraits and is a very useful technique.
(16) adjust light and shade
First, the darkness of the forehead is uneven. Here is the most out-of-the-eye area on the face. We sample the adjacent light position and scan the forehead directly. The opacity of the brush should be reduced, when you scan a few more times, you will see that the skin color is adjusted evenly.
(17) neck and light
In addition, it is the dark area of the neck. If you use the side light angle during shooting, this shadow will definitely be left. If you want to fade a bit, you can also use this method to sample the skin color of the adjacent light position, adjust the shadow concentration, and the effect is good.
(18) remove eye bags
The removal of eye bags is simpler. We can use the skin color next to the bag, and use a brush to brush a few times on the bag to reduce the number of eye bags. However, do not completely eliminate eye bags, because it is extremely unnatural, it is better to leave a little bit.
(19) decrease Lip Shadow
To achieve the perfect effect, you can reduce the upper and lower lip shadows and eliminate the shadows in a brighter place. In order to match your mouth, you must change both sides of your mouth and nose, this process is a bit like makeup. It is not intended to completely eliminate shadows, but to increase smoothness.
(20) last step
In terms of the mouth, we will find that the light position of the lips is a bit strange. We are better at reducing the brightness. The method is to sample the red lips and fill them in the light position, but it does not need to be completely eliminated. Just reduce it.
In this way, a perfect and soft photo will come out. This effect is more natural than those with one click.
All right, the above information is all the content that I have shared with the users of this software of photoshop in detail in the post-image repair tutorial of smart skin beautifier, you can see that the software users here, Xiaobian believes that everyone is now very clear about the skin of the tutorial, then everyone should follow the above tutorial to beautify their photos.
