Beauty Retouching is one of the main and in demand techniques of the Image manipulation. It includes smoothing skin, removing blemishes and imperfections, correcting colors etc. This USP of this technique is that it can make anyone look glamorous and beautiful.
How to do it….
Start with enhancing the colors on the image as much as possible by using levels, hue/saturation correct ions and curves. Depends on the colors and quality of your Image which of the methods will be useful.
Now that the colors have been corrected let us move to the retouching part with using tools like healing brush and cloning stamp by which you will be able to remove blemishes and eye bags as well as other imperfections on the face. Under the filters menu select the liquefy filter to smudge, move or squish the image. Plucker and Bloat tools are also very helpful for this purpose. These are useful for correcting lips, nose, chin, ears etc. But you got be very careful while using it. Go slowly and with a small brush size.
Now select the cloning stamp tool (size – according to the skin area to be smoothened), A touch of Gaussin blur filter can also be added. Patience is the key here. Taking new snapshots in the history palette lets you return to exact step in the history brush.
Keep on going until you feel the skin have been smoothened as desired and that is all. It is done.
This technique takes time as you need to beautify the face without distorting it that is why even the specialists take time in executing it as a lot of patience and practice is required.