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Defining Cheek Bones – Episode #74

Photoshop, Retouching, Video Jun 23

In today’s episode we are answering Aileen’s question on retouching. We do teach a class on skin retouching, so we couldn’t cover everything. We decided to focus on adding definition to cheek bones, which is something a lot of people miss when they think about retouching a face.

To do this, we figured out the shape of the shadow that would be under the cheek bones, and drew selections with the Lasso Tool. We then filled in the selections with a color drawn from the skin. We then set the layer blending mode to Multiply, which basically makes everything darker, and in this case, acts as shadow area. To make the shadows a little more realistic, we add a gaussian blur, and layer mask away the area we don’t want to be visible.

We then added a bit of color to her cheeks by selecting out the color in her lips, and painting with a large paint brush at 20% over her cheeks. Changing this layer into a soft light layer helped everything to blend in well.

To finish the image off, we used a healing brush tool, and painted over some of the red areas around her nose, then lowered the opacity. This helps make the skin look a bit more even.

Gear Used in This Episode

Wacom Intuos 4 Small

Adobe Photoshop CS6

15" Macbook PRO

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/je-souhaite/ Leah Goetzel

hey guys! hope all is going well, this an awesome tutorial could you show us how to do this image?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aknacer/3953886977/in/photostream
Justin

What are some of the images you used paper mache for and also when do you go im going to use paper mache
Justin

What are some of the images you used paper mache for and also when do you go im going to use paper mache
Sloyson

Wow this looks absolutely amazing. It’s so simple and fast to do and it adds such a great touch. Thanks so much Aaron and Avery. Have fun at the wedding!
Chad

Great Episode. Thanks for doing it in YouTube, because of close caption feature (since I am hearing impaired) it helps a lot even though it doesn’t fully account every word you said, but I can understand more clearly. Keep up the good work.
Carole

Great tutorial! Could you possibly cover how to take out glare & reflections from eyeglasses?

Thanks!
http://aileenluib.daportfolio.com Aileen Luib

Thank you for pronouncing my name correctly!!! Awesome tutorial, too!
Anonymous

Hey guys, thanx for another grate lesson in PS, because you are going to a weeding perhaps it will be a good opportunity to make a lesson about making photos of moving people in the darkness (bad light)? Although PS is grate I miss lessons like Episode 20 or 26. Think about it.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=543220567 Massimo Variolo

Youtube! Maybe will help you taking some more money with yt patnership! Are you guys going to create a phlearn channel?
http://www.facebook.com/mmanastireanu Marius Manastireanu

why youtube this time?
http://twitter.com/bjornruysen Bjorn Ruysen

Can you do a tutorial on making something look drawn by hand?

For example: I play in a band and our current logo is actually drawn on paper and scanned in afterwards. You can see it at the left top: http://www.kingsizemidgets.be/
But I’d like to have a larger copy (better quality) for flyer’s and so on… so I would have to redraw it in Photoshop or Illustrator, but I have no idea how to make it realistic, as if it’s really drawn by hand
http://twitter.com/waseefakhtar Waseef Akhtar

Wow, that was PRO, and easy! You guys seriously way improved my post-processing work in a MONTH! I feel like a pro. Thanks so much! xD
Fran

Nice tutorial!
Phil

You mention that you teach a class in skin retouching; is this something that is available online? I don’t see it anywhere on Phlearn, and I’d be interested in taking it.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MQR3Z3UFNLIXLKOBOKWQKEHRGI Sushil S

Thanks Guys Amazing Tutorials
Anonymous

Hey Bjorn, we are covering this in Today’s episode!
Anonymous

Vimeo was having some upload issues
http://profiles.google.com/jfinite Justin Bonaparte

That was an excellent tutorial, thanks very much!
Leah Morrell

That was awesome THANK YOU!!! Love you guys! Love Phlearn!!