If your photographs are looking less than the best,
use a photo editing software to jazz them up.
- Press Command-A (PC: Ctrl-A) to select the entire image. Click the Edit menu and choose De ne Pattern. Click OK to accept the lename as the name of the pattern. Look at the texture in the shadow area of her cheek; it still doesn't look as soft as it should. With that in mind, press Command-Option-Z (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Z) twice to undo the Dust & Scratches filter.
- Now we'll create a pattern for the shadow area.
- Once again, open the Dust & Scratches lter.
- This time click the lter's cursor box to the left of her nose.
- Start with a higher pixel radius (we used 10). Slowly lower the Threshold number until this area of skin in the shadow smoothes out, around 14. Ignore the e ect on any pixels in the highlights. Click OK.
3. Once again, select the
entire image by pressing Command-A (PC: Ctrl-A), then choose Edit>De ne Pattern. It's ne to let
this pattern have the same name as the rst. Remember that the rst pattern is
for the lighter areas of skin while the second one is used in the shadows.
Finally, press Command-Option-Z (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Z) to undo Dust & Scratches.
4. Choose the Healing
Brush tool from the Toolbox.
Change the Source in the Options Bar from Sampled to Pattern. From the Pattern
menu, click the rst thumbnail of Catherine to select the one for smoothing the
texture in the lighter portions of her skin.
Click the Aligned checkbox
to turn it on.
5. Heal the pattern over
her forehead and then work the
turquoise eye shadow using a 70-pixel brush; use the Right Bracket key (]) to
increase brush diameter as needed. Brush over the triangle of highlight on her
right cheek. Heal over any objectionable texture on her left cheek, nose, and
forehead.
6. Choose the second
pattern from the menu and work the
shadow areas of her right cheek on both sides of the strands of hair. Use a
smaller, 20-pixel brush, being careful to leave a bu er area of untouched
texture next to her hair; use the Left Bracket key ([) to decrease brush
diameter as needed. If the Healing Brush gets too close to the hair, the e ect
will bleed into the hair resulting in a very unnatural look. Work on the shadow
side of her nose as well.
7. Click the Eye icon on
the Smoother Skin layer to check
the progress of the effect. Thanks to April Santos for these great
informations!
