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Smoking Woman Effect

In this tutorial, author is going to show how to create one smokin’ woman using a couple source pics, and just a few of the features associated with Phoenix. So follow along and this tutorial will share a few secrets into some of the magic, without the smoke and mirrors

…Tweet3CommentsIn this tutorial, author is oing to show how to create one smokin’ woman using a couple source pics, and just a few of the features associated with Phoenix.
So follow along and this tutorial will share a few secrets into some of the magic, without the smoke and mirrors. Well, maybe a little smoke.

With the general idea already in my mind, I needed to find a suitable background image.
The image I found turned out perfect because of the line of direction of the main figure’s vision. He’s looking directly where we’re going to place our smoke, creating unity among our elements. How convenient!

1. The first step was to remove most of the smoke from the original image, as we’ll be bringing in our own later on.
I did this simply by taking the Clone stamp tool, shift-clicking a clean area of the background to sample, and painting over the smoke covered areas with our selected sample.

It doesn’t need to be perfect at this point, as most of it will be covered by the end anyways.
2. Next, I brought in…

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Portrait Retouching in Photoshop Tutorial

I’ll show you several quick and easy techniques for retouching portraits using Adobe Photoshop.

…. The key is to use low opacity values but many , many strokes rather than few strokes and a high opacity value. By using this technique , you will preserve the details and not wash out the skin.I have used the Clone Stamp tool to get rid of the wrinkles , especially those near the corner of the lips and the ones around the bottom part of the eyes. Be careful not to overuse the Clone Stamp tool or else you will lose the skin texture and create flat planes on your face. Fake looking skin is a common error in the practice of retouching photos. Tip: create snapshots to keep track of your progress and also zoom out often to have an overview of what you have done so far. Get rid of Wrinkles with the Healing brush Use the Healing Spot Brush to correct small skin issues like independent blisters or wrinkles. Set the type brush to proximity match for more accurate results.We’re not going to dive into any theory or arguments over best practices here, but be sure to keep in mind that wrinkles are natural in skin….

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