gyrgrls
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Registered: February 2002
Location: Eureka, Calif
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I didn't want to go too far with this one
as it basically looked good, for being a rough draft.
I likes the slight warmth, so I left the skin tone as is,
and pretty much left the background alone.
First, I took lasso to a few areas in the neck and chest region, and copied them to new layers. Then, I annihilated the freckles with the healing brush
(Rarely will I remove freckles or other blemishes, but in this case, it's what the author wanted, I think...)
Then I softened, but did not obliterate, the dimples/wrinkles caused by the smile along the jawline. I took two rough cuts with the marquee tool,
pasted to new layers, inverted normally, set the blending mode to luminosity, cut saturation to match
layers below, then feathered in the selections with a layer mask.
Next, I lassoed around the hair/background boundary,
and went to town with the rubber stamp (cloning) on the new layers. I mainly concentrated on the distracting
shadow to her right (left in photo), and mitigated the stray strands of hair with the eraser tool (=gasp!=), followed by reduced opacity on the layer, followed by painting into the layer mask with a soft brush, opacity set to stylus pressure and hardness fixed at 25.
Next, I lassoed out the mouth (another new layer),
sampled the corner of the lips, and painted over the harsh reflection on her lower lip with my favorite soft brush in multiply mode, using light strokes on the stylus, and throttling the maximum brush opacity to 25%.
Then I lassoed around the sleeve area in the lower left of the photo, copied to new layer, and used the liquify filter to make the sweater more "even" in the sleeve and armpit.
As I said, I liked the color balance and the warm flesh tones, so I didn't change that.
Finally, I saved a psd copy, flattened, resized, copied background, set new layer blend mode to luminosity, and ran the Focal Blade filter (a third-party plug-in), using medium-to-moderate unsharpening, and fading any over-sharpened areas by painting into a layer mask with that same favorite soft brush I always use.
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