This is a PHOTOSHOP tutorial for photographers and photomanipulators who want to edit their portraits and macro shots of body parts. A professional edited photo is the perfect base for any kind of artwork that may result from it. If you want to use the tips and informations provided in this tutorial you must have a basic understanding of picture editing and you should own at least Photoshop 6 or 7!!!

Skin Colour We start with simple adjustments on the over-all colour sheme of the picture to remove the colour imbalance and reddishness of the skin. 1. Create a new blank layer on top of your background layer and fill it with bright skin tone colour like you see on the right. 2. Blending Mode: SOFT LIGHT, Opacity: 30% Copy skin tone layer with Shift + J or right-click on layer >> Copy layer, Blending Mode: HUE, Opacity: 30% …. How to use it in general: 1. Select the Clone Stamp Tool from the Toolbox. 2. In the Options bar, set the tool’s tip size and hardness. 3. Point the cursor at the image area you want to paint with, hold down [Alt] key, then mouse-click. You have just selected the source point for cloning. 4. Paint with the copied pixels. 5. The “Aligned” gadget in the Options bar (checked by default) forces the source point to follow your mouse, even after you complete a stroke. In other words, every new stroke continues the image started by the first stroke. 6. Deselecting the “Aligned” option starts the sample point back to its original location every time you release the mouse button. That is, every new stroke re-starts cloning your image from the source point. Always use a SOFT round brush.For bigger smooth areas (like freckles, red spots) select a big brush, opacity 50-75 %, for smaller sharp areas (like wrinkles, pores) select a smaller brush, opacity 70-90%, 100% opacity only for very sharp and focussed areas. Select a clean source with [Alt] key + left mouse-click very close to the area you want to fix, then paint over the imperfect area and repeat that until it is fixed, maybe change sources from time to time if the first selected clean source is very small. Repeat that step with all imperfections.

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