Getting perfect skin in photoshop using Topaz Detail

Use a Duplicate layer



Open a layer mask


click back to your duplicate layer


Open Topaz Detail 2 under filers (http://www.topazlabs.com/detail/)


Click on soft looking and click ok

Click back to your layer mask and use your brush on the color black to bring back the detail in what you do not want soft like the eyes.

Then go to layers an flatten when done.


Use Clone and healing brush to take out any other unwanted details in the face and the rest of the photo.



Use the Photo filter in your layers menu as shown, adjust opacity to your liking.


Flatten the image when done.



Increase saturation of any color you may want to stand out more like the blue in the back by going to replace color under image menu

Select the color and increase saturation.

And you are done

Different Textures To Download for Free

I made these in Photoshop.

DIRECTIONS: Click on which one you want, right click, than upload to photoshop, drag to the picture you want it in, In the layers box, put the texture layer to overlay, adjust opacity to liking in the layers box, than flatten.

How to make the eyes brighter in Photoshop

1. Make a duplicate layer under the layers tab.
2. Burn: move down to 10% under shadows and burn the dark part of the outside ring around the eye.
3. Dodge: the color part of the eye.
4. Select the eye and under filters hit "sharpen more" once
5. under image, go to adjustments, replace color, select the color of the eye that you want to enhance and increase the saturation.
6. Adjust opacity on the layer to your liking and flatten image.

PhotoShop Vintage, Actions, and Texture

I used the directions on iheartfaces.com for getting a vintage photo, then added a few more steps.


First I added a red photofilter and dropped the opacity to my liking.  I then used the eyebright action from
Coffee Shop blog  to brighten the eyes a little.  I then added a texture from
Deviant Art and put it on overlay 20%,
flattened the image...done:)

PhotoShop Before and Afters

Messing around with PhotoShop

i {heart} faces Fix it Friday

I love Fix it Friday's on iHeartFaces! So here is what I did while having fun on photoshop :)


Before



and...



After










If you want to have some fun of your own check out.....

FIX IT FRIDAY! :)

This is my Pic For the iHeartFaces before and after (See bottom for how I did it).







Here is the BEFORE

And

Here is the AFTER
















And..


















I use PhotoShop 7. The steps I used are:
(First Pic)

• Dodged the eyes
• Took the eyedropper and color matched the darkest part of the outside of the eye and filled in the spots that were not as dark to help the eyes stand out.
• I then used the magic wand and selected the eyes and hit sharpen more under filter once.
• I then used the magic wand and selected the eyes and the background and the blue on the shirt.
• I went to "Select" and choose inverse
• I then went to "Image" and choose hue/saturation and desaturated to black and white (this kept the color where I picked with the magic wand and turned everything else black and white).
• I then added a layer by hitting the "alt" key and add new layer on the layers tool box.
• Under that it pulls up another menu and I choose overlay and checked the box fill with overlay...etc
• I then choose the eyedropper again and picked a lighter shade of blue on the picture.
• I then choose the paint brush and put the opacity to 50% or higher.
• I then made the brush a large circle and went over the parts of the black and white that I wanted to add a little blue to..i.e. in the top right hand corner.
• Then I put the opacity to 15% and made the brush small and went over the eyes with a light blue from the eyes using the eye dropper again.
• To get the color back in the checks and lips I put the opacity to 10-15% and the flow down to around 9% and picked out a pink and went over the areas of the face I wanted to add color to.
  
• I then flattened the layers and took the blur tool and blurred the edges of the background that were a little rough with the black and white.
• Then saved it! :)

The Second one was the same steps except leaving the eyes on the magic wand only, then inverse, and add the layer and then add color to the background and the face and hair.