Portrait modification-ways to eliminate wrinkles

There are two wrinkle-elimination tools in Photoshop that are already covered in the techniques described earlier in this chapter, but they are described in more detail to make people look 10-20 years younger.

Method One: Fix brushes

First step:

Please open the photo to remove wrinkles.

Step Two:

Select the repair brush from the toolbox (or press SHIFT-J until the tool appears). In the Options bar, click the thumbnail to the right of the brush text and select the brush size to cover the wrinkles in the image. By default, the repair brush is set to a sharp angle, which is usually appropriate for this technique.

Step Three:

Hold down the ALT key (Mac:option key) and click on the smooth skin area near the wrinkles. This will sample the skin texture of the clicked area and use it for repair.

Fourth Step:

Draw with the healing brush on the wrinkles you want to delete (I paint them on the wrinkles underneath his left eye). When the first pen is drawn, the initial tone does not match, it appears to have obvious cosmetic traces, but after a while, the healing brush begins to compute and displays its ultimate "magic", which blends perfectly with the original texture and eliminates wrinkles without trace. Continue to sample the clean skin area and draw on the wrinkle area until all wrinkles are eliminated.

Tips:

The amazing thing about fixing a brush is that it sometimes produces a noise effect, which means that you see a duplicate texture in the area of repair. Napp member Stephaniecole proposed a technique to change the shape of a brush to make these nasty things disappear. When you select the Repair Brush tool, go to the Options bar, click the thumbnail to the right of the brush text, and open the Brush picker (which, by default, is set to a black, rounded angle brush). Keep the hardness setting 100% and the Spacing setting 25% unchanged, but the trick is to shape, set the angle to -49°, set the roundness to 16%, and create a stiletto-shaped oval brush. Now when you draw again, the brush creates a star pattern that makes the texture look more random and lifelike.

The comparison before and after processing:

Method Two: Professional Wrinkle elimination method

First step:

Fashion photographer Kevin Ames A more realistic fix with the following simple method: Open the photo you want to "fix", press C t r l-j (M a c:command-j) to copy the background layer in the Layer palette, and the repair work will be done in that copy layer-just repeat method one.

Step Two:

Go to the Layer palette, reduce the opacity, and restore some of the original wrinkles. This actually makes the original photos appear in small amounts (all the wrinkles on the background layer remain unchanged). Continue to reduce opacity until you can see wrinkles, but they are less pronounced. This picture looks more authentic.

Tips:

A similar effect can be obtained immediately after drawing with a healing brush (fading is under the Edit menu). In the Fade dialog box, you can reduce the opacity and restore some of the original wrinkles.

The comparison before and after processing:

After processing before handling

Method Three: Patching tools

First step:

A similar effect can be achieved with the patching tool, and for me personally, I prefer to use the patch tool in most cases, as compared to the fix brush, because the patching tool corrects the larger area faster. Press SHIFT-J until you select the Patch tool, and make sure to set it to the source from the options bar and draw a selection around the wrinkle area. The patch tool operates like a lasso tool, and if you need to add to a selection, hold down the SHIFT key. If you want to subtract from the selection, hold down the ALT (Mac:option) key.

Step Two:

After you draw the selection, drag it onto the area with a clean texture on the face (you can preview the patch results in Photoshop CS2. This is why you can see the two-lock selection, and do not make the selection overlap with any other features of the face (such as the nose, lips, eyebrows, eyes, facial contours, etc.). Then release the mouse button. After doing so, the constituency is sucked back into the chosen area and the wrinkles disappear.

Step Three:

Press ctrl-d (mac:command-d) to deselect and see the wonderful work done by the patching tools from the right eye.

Category:

• PS Image Processing