Photo Retouch ›› Retouch Yellow Skin

Here is my stock foto


India lady with dark skin ...



Okey ... we'll retouch her ... :P



 


1.


    -Duplicate layer


    -Blending mode = Soft Light 100%



 


2.



    -Go to Image >> Adjustment >> Selective Color ..


    -Add 20% black to Black ..



 


3.


    -Select skin areas using Magic Wand Tool ( Q )




    -Feather Selection ( Alt + Ctrl + D ) 5 px


    -Layer Via Copy ( Ctrl + J ) name it "skin"



Add an adjustment layer ( Curve ) ( Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Curves )



Level layer...




Duplicate some adjustment layer if it doesn't strong enough..



Hue/Saturation layer ...



 


4.


Colour her lip...


    -Pick Lasso Tool, draw the selection around her lip


    -Feather selection ( 5 px )



    -Use Hue/Saturation module ( Ctrl + U )



 


5.


And now, shade something ..


    -Stand on layer "skin"


    -Pick Burn Tool, darker some dark area ...




You see? these areas are so bright. Fix it now!!



     -Use EyeDropper, choose a skin tone color


     -Make new layer


     -Use Soft Brush draw into bright areas ( on new
layer )


     -Change Blending mode = " Color "



     -Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur ( 5 > 10 px )



Yumm...


Now, we need some tone color for this image


I choose warm tone


Add one more adjustment layer ( Photo Filter ) and set as I did ..




At last step, you should make a copy-of-merged-layer by using Image >> Apply
Image ( on new blank layer )


Change mode = Screen, discount Opacity ..


You can use Dodge and Burn Tool to shading some skin areas are incorrect ...



This is stock foto



and this is last result !! Have fun :)




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There are 12 comments
Johan
November 14, 2008 - 13:09

Hmm, really nice tutorial!
Of course I don'tlike what magazines do to women these days, but it is always fun to know HOW they do it

Heidi
November 06, 2008 - 20:55

This tutorial is lame. It's bad enough magazines, photographers and the like dilute the beauty of women with olive skin tone or darker.

Schyrise, she is mixed to begin with.

Oops! ( tutorials writer )
October 27, 2008 - 10:48

hi Grace, and sorry for the delay, 2 :((
contact me at oops_000@yahoo.com :P see u soon

October 23, 2008 - 16:09

not sure where to get your contact info, but contact me through me website.
sorry for the delay :P

Schyrise
September 20, 2008 - 12:27

I really like the tutorial, but she does really seem to be a completely different race now. It's a little odd, why get rid of the nice olive tones of her skin?

September 03, 2008 - 15:09

lol @ the models comment.

Its a nice tutorial for fun. But she seems a different race now to me, so if i tried it, I'd keep it less light.

Onya
August 16, 2008 - 16:34

She werent even dark to begin with, or yellow. She is olive skinned.

tutorials writer
August 15, 2008 - 23:05

@to: Grace Agosta : sr u about that, just because i luv this pic :"> can you contact me ?

neisha
August 12, 2008 - 15:03

how do i do my photo like that

July 16, 2008 - 15:35

That's not very good haha. Looks like she has a bunch of hotspots and overexposure throughout.

July 16, 2008 - 15:29

I'm Italian, not Indian... but great work :)

July 13, 2008 - 16:12

wooooww that was really awesome~ ^o^ I LIKE IT..
good job... but i can't find the thing i was looking for... i'm really getting confused now~

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