Tuesday, December 1, 2009

notes from self portrait adjustments

RED EYE:
Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer
Set the red to 0 blue to 50 green to 50

Set my color to black

press alt & delete (paint bucket)

use a paint brush... white
paint over eyes

REMOVE BLEMISHES:
use the healing brush

SMOOTH SKIN:

Select the face (lasso tool - feather set to 10px)

copy selection to a new layer (command J)

Filter > Blur > G. Blur > .8

erase the eyes, mouth, nose,


CHANGE HAIR COLOR:

Lasso - select the face

Select Inverse

Command J

Erased everything not hair

Img Adjust > Color Balance

Hair layer opacity to 50%

still use all the general image adjustments we have learned up to this point. photo filters, image adjustments, layer masks etc.

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