Photoshop: Retouching

Retouching

 The picture on the left is the original photograph and the first blemish I am going to fix on photoshop is the freckle on her nose shown in the picture on the right. To do so I will use the healing brush tool. With this tool you select a good section of the persons skin and replace the bad part with the good part selected.

                                                   

As you can see now on the picture on the left, the freckle has gone and you can't tell where it was to begin with.           This is what the healing brush tool looks like.













Retouching is used by all magazines to make models look perfect, it gets rid of any slight imperfections and makes skin look flawless.

 The picture on the right is the freckle that I am getting rid of and the picture on the left is how it looks once I have used photoshop to get rid of it.

On this picture there is only a slight blemish under the lip but you can still use photograph even for minor improvements. On the right is the retouched version where you can clearly see the blemish has gone.





There is 3 tools I have used to fix these pictures, firstly there is the spot healing brush which is very easy to use, you just click the spot or freckle that you want to get rid of and it disappears. The icon for spot healing tool looks like this ...

The next tool is the Healing brush, which is a bit more difficult to use but easy once you know what to do it is easy enough and to use this you select a good section of skin and then click on the part which you would like to replace and it does it for you.

Lastly is the Patch tool which allows you to draw around a section of skin and then move it to a different part of the face and it then also disappears and the skin is retouched and looks flawless. This is the more advanced tool of the three but it often works the best.