Not satisfied with your appearance? With Photoshop you can easily remove blemishes, and, with a good investment, make your face shine.
Steps
Step 1. Purchase or download Photoshop
In the last ten years CS versions of Photoshop have been created, and you can find different versions, from CS to CS6, but, keep in mind that the latest is the CC version of 2014. You can choose the payment method, and the plan Creative Cloud best suited to your needs. The basic version, for photo manipulation, costs around 146 euros a year, and includes most of the features that concern photo editing.
Step 2. Open Photoshop, and paste your photo
Step 3. Keep the original on your PC, and work on a copy
Step 4. Make the complexion of the face homogeneous
To do this, you can use the automatic mode, by selecting Image> Automatic tone, or, if you already have some experience with the program, you can use more complex procedures. In this case the goal is to set correct values for brightness and color.
Step 5. Eliminate all pimples
Select the Clone Stamp tool, and, holding down Alt, sample a part of the skin without blemishes: move, then, the cursor to a nearby part to be touched up, and click on it. This operation must be done for all the imperfections that you want to eliminate.
Step 6. Apply this method to messy hair as well, avoid overlapping lashes and eyebrows
It is very complicated to get rid of them, and they don't even notice much, so you can leave them as they are.
Step 7. Now activate the Lasso Selection tool, and set a value of 10-50 px (this size varies according to the size of your image) in the "Feather" box
Select the forehead, the tip of the nose, the cheeks, and the chin. Go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur. Blur your selection to make your skin smoother - don't overdo it, or what will result will be unrealistic. Play around with the parameters to find the middle ground! If you have freckles, don't include them in your selection.
Step 8. Contour the eyebrows well, removing any messy hair, in the same way as for pimples and blemishes
Step 9. Add brightness to the look
With the Lasso Selection tool, and a value of 1-5 px set in "Feather", select the white part of both eyes. Go to Image> Adjustments> Brightness / Contrast, and increase the brightness value.
Step 10. Now it's the iris's turn. Use the Burn tool on the outside of the iris, while, with the Dodge tool, he works on the inside, outlining the outline of the pupil, without touching it. To change color, just select the iris with the Elliptical Marquee tool, and add a new layer. Then fill this layer with the color of your choice. Try using the various blending modes - Soft Light, Overlay, or whatever.
Step 11. If you want to whiten your teeth, pay close attention
To avoid a hideous "black and white" effect, typical of amateur photo retouching, first look at some tutorials on how to do it.
Step 12. Post the photo to show your beauty
Warnings
- Avoid retouching all your photos, those who look at them may find them "fake" and not appreciate them.
- Sure you can use photo editing to beautify and enhance the photo of your profiles, but be careful not to take a liking to it!
