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This article is from November 9, 2009, and is no longer current.

Give Portrait Photos the Spa Treatment

This tutorial is courtesy of the Russell Brown Show.
I’m a believer in subtle, gentle portrait retouching. In this how-to, I’ll show you how to downplay wrinkles, brighten teeth, and give someone a more even complexion — as if they’ve been to a really good spa.
Some of the retouching tools you’ll use are layer masks, blend modes in the Layers panel, and the Clone Stamp tool.
Click the image below to open the tutorial movie in a new window.

 

RUSSELL BROWN is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems, and an Emmy Award-winning instructor. He shares his delight in testing the creative limits of his tools, and his in-depth design knowledge and zany presentation style has won him a regular following among beginning, intermediate, and advanced users alike.
  • Anonymous says:

    When I click on the video window, I am taken to a new page which is blank.

  • Terri Stone says:

    Re “Link does not work”: The video tutorial works for all the computers we can try it on. Perhaps it was a short, temporary glitch?

    Terri Stone
    Editor in Chief, CreativePro.com

  • Anonymous says:

    Very good tutorial, and full of important and useful tips. I recently enhanced a photo of a bride’ and used a similar process, but I returned to it after viewing this tutorial and was quite surprised at the difference (a day makes”) using those presented here. Thank you very much for this enlightening episode.

  • Robin says:

    Well done, I will try some of these techniques, thank you!

  • RobBuck says:

    Great, well done, thank you!

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