4. Next I Changed the levels. I put the black arrow to
the start of the diagrams levels.
Then I put the white arrow to the
end of the biggest section of levels
at which point the grey arrow in the
middle moves itself.
The ‘Levels’ tool allows you to make the blacks slightly darker and
more defined and the whites brighter and not as dull.
5. After changing the levels I then selected the ‘Spot Healing Brush Tool’. This gets rid
of any unwanted spots/blemishes.
7. I went on to take away further spots and blemishes that I
could see.
Differences/Chan
ges
Before Levels and Spot Healing Brush Tool After changes
8. Then after doing the spots, to make the skin look even better I
went on to ‘Filter’ then ‘Convert for Smart Filters’
9. Then after converting the ‘Filters’ I went back to ‘Filter’ went down to ‘Blur’ then across to
‘Gaussian Blur’.
10. When I selected the ‘Gaussian Blur’ tool a box comes up where you can change the
‘Radius’ and ‘Pixels’. I changed it to 30.5 because I didn’t want it to blur out too much.
12. I went on to select the ‘smart filter’ layer I have just created.
And switched the Foreground and
Background so the black switched
with the white.
Finally clicked over the image with the ‘Paint
Bucket Tool’ to take the image back to what it
was before the filters.
13. I went back on to ‘Filter’ but then selected ‘Noise’ and went across to ‘Dust
and Scratches’.
14. Again a box came up where I could change the ‘Radius’ and ‘Pixels’ just like
the Gaussian Blur but could also change the ‘Threshold/levels’ too. I changed
the Radius and Pixels to 35 and Threshold/levels to 15. This provides a better
more powerful way of removing noise from my image.
16. And switched the ‘Foreground and Background colours’ back so the
white was on top again.
17. I changed the ‘Opacity’ to 20% because I didn’t want the Gaussian blur to paint on to heavy. I still
wanted it to look quite natural.
18. After painting the Gaussian blur back on to the face, hands and body, this is
what I ended up with, a perfect skin air brushed effect.
19. Next I decided I wanted to make the eyes brighter so selected
the ‘Dodge Tool’.
20. I clicked a couple of times over the eyes, in the white of the eyes too along
with the reflection of light within in the eyes to make it brighter.
21. Before
After
Closer up the darker eyes look better, but when the brighter eyes are with the rest of the face they stand out a lot more.
22. I then also used the ‘Dodge Tool’ on the hair to brighten it up.
Before After
23. I experimented with the ‘Black and White’ tool and decided I liked it better than I did in
colour. I didn’t change the ‘Reds’, but changed the ‘Yellows’ to 17, the ‘Greens’ to 20 the
‘Cyans’ to 100 (the Cyans effected the eyes since they where more Cyan then blue and made
them brighter, which helped them stand out even more) and I changed the ‘Blues’ to 11
which also added to the brightness of the eyes. Additionally I changed the ‘Brightness and
Contrast’ to make it a little brighter/whiter and to make the blacks a bit darker and higher in
contrast, so that they came through more.
24. I changed the ‘Brightness’ to 40 and the ‘Contrast’ to 36.
