Portraiture

Before After
  • Used downloaded brushes to create smoke elements.

 

  • Used Blend Modes and Masks to edit the new smoke.

 

  • Used Adjustment Layers to play with the colouring of the smoke. 

 

  • Using brushes with Colour Picker to even skin tones and face sculpt.

 

  • Used Curve Adjustment Layers to Dodge and Burn to remove shadows on the face.
Before After
Before After
  • Used Selection, pen tool and Refine Edge brush to cut out the models.

 

  • Used Content-Aware and Gaussian Blur on a Smart Layer to create a blurred background.

 

  • Used Spot Healing, Patch tool, and Liquify to get rid of blemishes and stray hairs.

 

  • Used Black and White Adjustment Layer to bring out skin detailing such as freckles, and skin texture and enhances eyebrows and lashes.

 

  • Used Lasso Tool to iron out T-Shirt.

 

  • Used Eyedropper tool and brushes to fix discolouration on the skin.

 

Before After
  • Fixed blemishes using the Frequency Separation method.

 

  • Enhanced purple light on the skin using paint brushes and Blend Modes.

 

  • Colour correction to bring back the vibrancy of skin colour.

 

  • Added lip colour and brightened eyes.

 

  • Brightened earrings and details that were lost in shadowing.

 

  • Added jewellery shine onto skin with Blend Modes and paint.

 

  • Created a new background using Content-Aware and Lasso tool
Before After
  • Used Colour Look Up and Blend Modes to enhance colours.

 

  • Used Gradient Map Adjustment Layers and Hue/Saturation to fill in graffiti lettering.

 

  • Used Pen Tool and different selection tools to select the different lettering.
Before After
  • Added Vignetting framing.

 

  • Liquified clothing for camera correction from zooming with the lens.

 

  • Used Lasso Tool to fix unwanted artefacts after using Liquify. 

 

  • Used Clone Tool to decrease his clothing.

 

  • Tone down background colours to enhance the foreground.
Before After
  • Cleaned up boots and bricks using Patch Tool.

 

  • Sorted out under eye bags but keeping a natural feel.

 

  • Brightened the pole on the right to make the background symmetrical.
Before After
  • Created sclera on the right eye using the Lasso tool.

 

  • Spot Healing tool for blemishes.

 

  • Smoothed lips with Gaussian Blur. 

 

  • Blurred background using various tools from the Blur Gallery.
Before After
  • Selective colouration using Colour Range selector and Masks.

 

  • Fixing minor unwanted artefacts.

 

  • Lighten eyes and teeth subtlety.
Before After
  • Remade background using the Pen Tool and blurring methods.

 

  • Clone tool to alter clothing.

 

  • Dodge and Burn using Curve Adjustment Layers.

 

  • Eyedropper and brushes to remove shadows on the face.
Before After
Before After
  • Used Pen Tool, Content-Aware Fill and Gaussian Blur to create a blurred background.

 

  • Used Spot Healing non-destructively to remove stray hairs and blemishes.

 

  • Used Paint brushes to even skin tone.

 

  • Used Curves and Masking to thicken beard.