PHOTOSHOP BOOTCAMP WSP TUTORIAL:

This is a MINI tutorial for SKIN CLEANING PART 1 of 2.

As beginners this will help you get started in cleaning up your images for clients.

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Remeber this is not for making a bad picture better... there is no cure for that...
this is for enhancing your already beautiful image to a professional level before
it goes to PRINT or WEB.

This is not a process that should be rushed and it does not come easy. Please take
your time and PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.

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Lighting is key when choosing an image to be PHOTOSHOP(-ed). The better the

image is, setting up the shot and calculating the lighting, the easier it will be
to clean an image.

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I hope this helps! Best Photoshop Wishes!

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With any questions or concerns or even if you are just stuck please dont hesitate to
contact me. All of us who use ADOBE have a Reference Contact List. It takes less
time to ask than to search Help / Google / Some tutorial you cant understand.

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Cortney Jackson
tel. 202.321.8757
CortneyCJackson@gmail.com
www.cortneyjackson.com

Part 2:
SKIN SMOOTHING (Highlights and Shadows Area)
HAIR SELECTION & CLEAN UP
MAKE-UP APPLICATION (Blush, Lipstick, Eye Shadow)
SAVING File for Print, Web, Review Proofing
OTHER TUTORIALS:
Basic GOOD Business Practice (Forms, Files, Contracts)
Website Design
Portfolio Presentation (Web & Print)
Illustrator 1 (Basic), 2 (Design), 3 (Typography) , 4 (Portraits), 5. LOGOs, 6. Advanced
Flash Animation Timeline
InDesign BOOK Layout
Photoshop: 3D, Masking, Tools Review, Merging Multiple Photos, and many more.

PHOTOSHOP BOOTCAMP WSP TUTORIAL:

SKIN CLEANING (FOUNDATION)

1. Open Image in PS

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2. Layer Menu > Smart Object > Convert to Smart Object

*Advantages: to be able to use smart filters and also allows full potential of the
file to be used after youve used it or minimized it or transformed it.
3. Copy Original Layer

4. Select Menu > Color Range > Select Skin (T-Zone or Highlighted Area)
Remember to hold down the Shift key to selected multiple points
You can also control the Tolerance/Fuzziness (The Range on the selection)
depending on the photograph 40-70 is a good range.
to the Original Copy Layer

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5. Add Mask

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6. Make sure the Thumbnail (Right side of layer) is selected and apply
FILTER > NOISE > DUST AND SCRATCHES
NOTE: This will not work if you have applied the filter to the mask (L Side)

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7. Remember not to make it too blurred... you want no more than

Radius: 4 or 5 really 2 or 3
Threshold: 2 or 3

8. Select the MASK (L Side) :: Brush tool (B) :: Select a Brush from your brush menu ::
Make sure its small and SOFT (0% - 20% Hardness) :: Paint with BLACK to get
ride of the effect of FILTER or Paint with WHITE and add the effect to the area
Any White area in the MASK is what the FILTER will be applied to.
Brush

(D) for default colors (Black & White)

(X) to toggle forground/background

9. The Filter should NOT effect: Lips, Eyes, Jewlery, Hair, Eyebrows
10. Make a new Layer > Rename it SPOTTING (This is to clean up blemishes & Spots)
TAKE YOUR TIME this is where you will spend most of your time & ZOOM in
Everything looks ok when you see it at 16.7% Look at it at 400% and then
decide.
11. Clone Tool (R Bracket Key will make your brush BIGGER :: L Bracket Key = SMALLER)
SAMPLE: All Layer (MUST BE SELECTED ON TOP MENU)
You can change the Opacity: (55%-75%) & Flow: (75% -90%) Depending

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12. Select an area close to where you are spotting away the blemish
by holding down the (ALT / OPTION)
make your selection and release
start painting blemishes away
key trick: Make multiple selections as you go and stay close around the area
you are cleaning. The Plus sign is showing you the path which is being
smapled.
Benifit of having a WACOM or DRAWING TABLET: the brush is pressure sensitive
and will allow you more control and better blending
Changing Opacity = Controling the thickness of the paint
Changing Flow = Amount of paint on the brush

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13. Healing Tool (Band aid tool) : Works somewhat like the cloning tool, but instead
of cloning the pixels exactly it will try to merge the selected pixels and area
you are painting on.
This is a good tool to use in conjuction with the clone tool not inplace of.
Remeber to have:
SAMPLE: All Layers
A Soft Brush with adjusted oplacity and flow
That you are working on your SPOTTING LAYER
Works well cleaning up contours of the face

EYE WHTENING: (Slightly Different than I showed you in class... a little easier)

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14. Create a new Adjustment Layer

found at the bottom of your layer pallette
> Hue / Saturation > (on the Masked area Left Side) FILL with Black
either: APPLE/COMMAND + Delete (for background color)
or ALT/OPTION + Delete (for foreground color)
Reminder: (D) will set your colors back to default

15: USING the LASSO TOOL as best you can trace around the eye
Holding SHIFT down to selected both eyes
16. Once you have made your selection (Ants Marching)
(Dont worry it does not have to be perfect)
On your masked layer (RIGHT SIDE) fill selection in with WHITE
either: APPLE/COMMAND + Delete (for background color)
or ALT/OPTION + Delete (for foreground color)
17. Double click on Hue/Saturation (Right Side)
Change to REDS > Reduce Saturation
There will be areas around her eyes that are now too desaturated... thats ok!
Next Spet will fix that.

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18. Using the BRUSH TOOL (B) paint with BLACK on the MASK (RIGHT SIDE) to clean
up the areas you dont want to loose Saturation.
Remeber to have your brush in Normal Mode & Opacity & Fill closer to 100%
19. ADJUSTING CONTRAST IN EYES
20. Layer Menu > New Layer > Name it Eye Contrast > MODE = Overlay > Check box
which says Fill with Overlay 50% Grey
21. Brush Tool (B) > (D) for default colors
21 a: PAINT with BLACK using MODE: Overlay (Soft Brush)
Opacity: VERY Low (15%-25%) Flow: Low (30% -50%)
And paint Black areas of EYE... around the eye, Lashes, As if you were
putting on Eyeliner
21 b: PAINT with WHITE (With Same Settings) (just hit (X) which will toggle the
colors from Black to White
And paint the WHITE area of the eye
THIS IS WHERE HAVING A WACOM/DRAWING TABLET COMES IN HANDY
THE PRESSURE DRAWING WILL MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE
Remember: Dont go to far or else shes start looking like an Alien.
TAKE YOUR TIME!!!

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LIP CONTRAST

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22. New Layer > Name it Lips Contrast > MODE: Overlay > Fill With 50% Grey

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23. Brush Tool > MODE Overlay

Low Opacity 5%-10% & Medium Fill 45% - 60%
Paint Lips... Increasing Contrast = Saturating lips
Change Color to WHITE and paint teeth > Dont go too far or it will look like
Ross in that episode of Friends
If you feel like its too much still... then just adjust the LAYER Opacity in the
Layers Palette

24. MAKE A NEW SET/GROUP > put all of you correction layers into this new group
This will able you to toggle between your corrections and original image
Also this is good practice in keeping yourself organized.
#1 Rule in All Designers PRACTICE & WORKFLOW
25. Save PSD file format so if you need to make any changes or adjustments
it is easy to do so.
Keep all your images and PSD files on an EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. These images
can get really big and slow down your system.

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