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:)

I Heart Faces Weekly Challenge - We heart Kisses!!

This is a pic of my sister trying to get a kiss from her son,
When I saw the posting on facebook, I knew exactly what
picture to use for the iheartfaces kisses challenge :)





go to www.iheartfaces.com to see other entries

I heart faces Logo Challenge

This weeks Challenge is was coming up with a logo for the www.iheartfaces.com website. Ari and I had fun coming up with ideas for taking these pictures! For only being six, she was a good sport. I tried in the first ones to not use photoshop to put in the logo so I found some letters that looked close to the logo letters and cut them out and put them on her face (They actually came in a stamp kit and it was the clear plastic that showed what the letters looked like:) The leaf and sunglasses picture was photoshopped in, but the others it was those letters (minus the "i" on two of them because I put it on backwards, I cloned out the section that was the wrong way on one and added it on the other side on the other).




















“I am submitting this photo into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.”

Don't forget to check out the other entries at www.iheartfaces.com!

Week 37: Completely Candid Photo Challenge

This is one of my favorite pics of Daxton! He was playing at the park when I caught him peaking through one of the slates.

Check out other Candid Photos at www.iheartfaces.com