Jessie- I used the spot healing
brush to clear the skin, I then duplicated the layer and put it in to a group.
With the new layer I used the surface blur, I then created a ‘hide all’ layer
mask for the group. I then used the pen tool to create a flawless finish to the
skin. I didn’t want to make it look too artificial so I turned down the opacity
to around 40%. I then added some blusher with the pen tool and Gaussian blur, I
then set this to multiply at about 20%. I also wanted to make Jessie’s hair a
more chestnut colour, which I did by adding a new layer and using the pen tool
at multiply. I also made the beauty spot near her mouth darker. I used dodge
and burn to accentuate the jaw line and make the teeth, lips, eyes and whites
of eyes lighter/darker. The image was really dark so I duplicated the
background layer and set this to screen to lighten to image. I added brightness
and contrast, hue/saturation and levels adjustment layers. I also used the
selective colour as I really liked the way the light hit the side of the face
and wanted to emphasize this so focused on making the yellows stand out. I then
added a subtle noise to give the image a vintage kind of look. Overall I wanted
to give the image a warm feel.
Grace- With this image
of Grace I did the same preparation with the spot healing brush and airbrushing
the skin. I messed around with the dodge and burn in the same way, I played
with the tools making Grace’s eyes, lips and hair darker. I made her hair
blonder with a new layer and the pen tool. I wanted to make the image warmer as
it was cold and very bright I did this using curves, levels and selective
colour. I duplicated the background and desaturated it to make the darks stand
out.
Alice- I prepared this image in the
same ways as the others, using the spot healing brush then airbrushing the
skin. Using dodge and burn I made Alice’s eyes lighter and added a small amount
of blusher in a new layer. In another layer I used the brush and Gaussian blur
to make her hair darker, I set this to multiply. I found that when I edited the
colours of this image it would either go really pink or really yellow so I
added a fill layer of grey and set this to soft light, which cooled the photo
down a little. I also duplicated the background layer and desaturated it. To
make the image and the aspects of it a little sharper I duplicated the layer
and used the high pass filter, which I set to overlay 43%. The levels
adjustment layer then added a nice peachy glow to the image.
Annie- I took this image
in a studio space using artificial light from softbox lights. As all the other
images I’d worked with had been colour I decided to make this one black and
white. I started with the skin, spot healing and airbrushing. I then
desaturated the image. I used the dodge tool to make the white of the eyes and
the iris lighter. I used burn to accentuate the jaw line, the lips, the hair
and the eyebrows. I used a grey on a new layer to add what looked like blusher.
As I edited the colours using adjustment layers I found the backdrop went very
white and merged in to the image, so I added a layer with grey around the
figure to make the backdrop a little darker. I added noise to give the image a
vintage feel. I added a final grey fill layer to accentuate the darks and add
more contrast.
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