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Working on wrinkles

Working on wrinkles - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working on wrinkles

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I like to get my photographs as close to perfect as possible, in camera, but use Photoshop on a regular basis to take care of wrinkles and bags. I tell my clients that I'm not going to make them look 17, but rather I will make them look refreshed and ready for the day. So the first thing that I do when I open up a file is that I make sure that I am working at 50% or 100%. Then go over to the Layers, click on the background and drag it to the little icon to make a new layer, name your layer, name it retouch, then go over to the Clone Stamp tool, click on that, and what I'm going to do is work first on the bags under her eyes. The first thing I'm going to do is go up here to the Mode, take that down to Lighten, I'm going to set my Opacity at about 35%. I chose Lighten because it will only affect the pixels that are darker than the sample area and it'll lighten them up a little. So the opacity is dependent on how dark the circles are and I'm going to set this at 36 or around somewhere in…

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