In this lesson we were experimenting with makeup in photoshop. We were told to use a portrait photo, preferably with no makeup already on so that we could add it all on photoshop. The only half decent photo I had to use that day was this one (sorry Sean).
We first used the Spot Healing Brush Tool to erase any blemishes, or in this case clear up some freckles. I then smoothed out his face although I've since noticed that I have missed out a large section at the top of his forehead.
After this I created a new layer, named it 'Eyeliner' and proceeded to add some faint eyeliner along the lower lash line. To do this I used the brush tool, changed the colour to black, tuned the opacity down to 10% and painted it on with small strokes.
Once I was happy with that it was time to add some eyeshadow so again I created a new layer and name this 'Eyeshadow'. Using the Lasso tool I carefully drew a line around the eyelids where I wanted my digital eyeshadow to go. To unsure the eyeshadow looked somewhat natural and blended well on the eyelids I then went to Select > Modify > Feather > And chose a radius of 30 pixels. I then played around with the saturation on the selected areas until I was happy with the colour of the eyeshadow.
I continued with the same process of creating a new layer, selecting an area and playing around with the colours in that area until I had added, lip colour, blush, hair colour and whitened the eyes.
It was important to create a new layer with each area of the digital makeup as it made it very easy to delete areas I was unhappy with without having to undo hours of work.
By the end of the lesson this was the finished image:
I don't particularly like the image, because I don't feel like it looks very natural and I think it will take a fair bit of practice for me to be able to use this technique and be happy with it. Saying that I would like to do something like this again as I think it will come in very handy when I start to work on portrait and fashion shoots.
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