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Create Beautiful People with Digital Photography
Create Beautiful People with Digital Photography
You have taken photos of your family and to your disappointment the results are not that complimentary. You probably got some negative comments from your family members! Do you dump all the pictures you had taken? No, that's in the past - now, you can learn to touch up your digital photography with digital photo editing software.
You probably already know how to resize, remove redeye and correct color, but those techniques barely scratch the surface of what a good software application can do.
My instructions below require that you have Adobe Photoshop CS3, but many other applications, including the excellent Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Corel Paint Shop Pro X offer similar capabilities. Consult your application's help file for program specific instructions.
a) An Extreme Makeover without a Knife
This removes blemishes and wrinkles from a face. It's like 'grafting' skin from another area to cover the wrinkle.
Once you have Photoshop booted up, use the Zoom function to enlarge the blemish area. Make a duplicate layer so as not to alter the original. Then, remove the original layer's visibility. From the Toolbox, select the Healing Tool or the Clone Stamp tool. Set the brush size to cover the blemish you want to remove. Set the following controls to - Mode: Normal; Source: Selected; Selected: Aligned; Use all Layers: Not selected.
Now, use Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) to select the 'good skin' that you want to use for the touch-up. Drag the tool over the blemish. Presto, the blemish disappears. To give the face a more natural look, restore visibility to the original layer. Working on the repaired layer, adjust the opacity until some of the original imperfections begin to appear.
Corel Paint Shop Pro gives similar results using Retouch & Restore, the Scratch Remover Tool for wrinkles, or the Blemish Remover tool for blemishes. So, do your old photographs have scratches and rips? Scan them and use this technique to repair the damage. Digital photography and digital editing - what wonders can be achieved.
b) Painless Dentistry
For another job, you can whiten teeth by lightening the teeth and de-saturating the yellow tones. As before, use Zoom to enlarge the area on the teeth. Using the Polygonal Lasso tool, select the teeth. Go to Image 'adjustments' Hue/Saturation. Select Yellow in the Edit box, then de-saturate slightly by dragging the Saturation marker to the left. Next, brighten by moving the Lightness marker to the Right. Click OK, and you have whiter teeth!
In Corel Paint Shop Pro, choose Adjust & Restore, next Makeover Tools, then Toothbrush.
You can use the same technique to correct any color imbalance in a photo. Digital photography and digital photo editing software to the rescue again!
c) The Digital Diet
You can make a person lose weight instantly by 'shrinking' the torso or any part of the body. In Photoshop, create and work on a duplicate layer. Using the Polygonal Lasso tool, select the body or object to be 'slim down'. Go to Edit 'Transform' Distort. This places a drag-able box around the selected area. Grab one of the side 'handles' with your mouse and drag it inwards, decreasing the horizontal size but keeping the vertical size intact. Click Enter when you are satisfied with the result. Then use your Clone Stamp tool to add background to the solid color that appears when you resize the width.
For Corel Paint Shop Pro users, use Effects 'Distort Photos' Warp Brush Tool.
You can use this technique to resize or distort any object. Digital photography puts the magic wand in your hand. Play with the photo editing software and unleash your creativity and discover what fun you can have with a graphic software application!
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