So, the set the control to change the color, what you need to do is come over to this Mask, and if you are on a PC, right click on it so that you get the contextual menu to pop down. If you are on a Macintosh, you would hold down your control key and that would be the key that actually says CONTROL on it and that will pop this contextual menu. And come down here to where it says layer Mask options and that will open up the layer Mask display options box. To change the color of the rubylith to an emeraldlith, just click on the color swatch and choose green. See, before it was down here at red.
See this is what yours probably looks like and it has an opacity of 50%. That is just so that you can see through to the bottom. You can change this too but I find the default 50 works just fine for me. So, I am going to click on the color box again and choose my emeraldlith and click OK. And so, what this does now is I can look and see where I need really fine tune the application of the powder and where I need to hide it.
So, what I am going to do is, use my left bracket key. I am going to work in this mode, in his Mask mode. Now, if I paint with white, white is going to reveal the powder obviously. So, I need to switch my foreground color over here to black and I want to do that without having to come over here and do it so, just hit the keyboard letter X. And see that switches it back and forth. So, painting with black is going to allow me to paint that emeraldlith right now, back on here to kill that over spray and I will come in here and make my airbrush smaller when I get into areas like this.
And there is not as much flow on the air blush when you do shrink it down so, you do have a little bit more control and we want to kill all that powder over spray that is on the clothing. And we want to kill it on the lips and the eyes and see this hair here, we want to make sure. You can leave a little bit on those edges of the hair but we can come in a little bit closer here. I am using a mouse, using this type of brush is not that difficult to use when you are using a mouse. And I am just going to come in here in short little strokes like this.
To me, it is a lot easier than using selection tools. All right, now, for the eyes, I am going to just make this a little smaller using my left bracket key still painting with black and I am just going to come in here and drag to cover up the eyes. We do not want powder in the eyes here. And then, I am going to make it a little smaller, again, left bracket key. I am going to click once, release the mouse and then just move the move over here without holding down on the button. Hold my Shift key down and click and it is going to snap to that area.
And so, I am going to release the shift key, come over here to this eyebrow, click once and then release the mouse. Move the position of the mouse without holding the button down then hold my Shift key down and click, it is going to snap. And shift click over here.
And then, I am just going to paint over the lips here. If your lips are severely cracked or chapped, you might want to leave a little bit of powder on here to smooth them out but otherwise, you are probably just going to want to have all that nice sparkle and sheen that is on the lips. And even though I am painting with an airbrush here, I am going to want to Gaussian blur, a little bit of these new things that I have put on, and going to actually make my brush a little bit bigger here. And, I am going to tap the nostril because I want some detail to come back here, just like that. Just once, just one little click like that.
And now, what I am going to do is get my lasso tool and I am doing this because I just want these selections to blend in a little better so, I am going to be careful to just go around these new areas on the interior of the face and I do not want to catch any of the mask out here but just with these selected, I can add a Gaussian blur to that section of the Mask only. If I were to add a Gaussian blur without that selection, it is going to blur everything that I have out here. Which is one of the techniques, I used a lot but right now I just one to isolate the blur to these new areas because I used a smaller air brush and it does not have quite the feather or blending on it. So, I will go under filter blur, Gaussian blur and I will move this out here and click the little zoom out button just to take a peek at those areas on the mask to blur it a little bit about like that.
And see, how I am seeing like a fine line here like this. I am going to click cancel right now. And what I am going to do, what is going to help that is to actually first at a little bit of feather onto that selection. So, I will just put a 20 pixel radius feather on that, just an estimation, I am working on that pretty high res image. And now, I will go into filter blur and Gaussian blur and click the little Minus button here to get a better view and that is doing a better blend on there without that rough spot. I am going to click OK, and then, click outside of the selection with the lasso tool that will deselect it.
Okay, now, we are ready to look at this what we have done so far getting out of this rubylith mode, emeraldlith mode right now. And all you have to do either is I am going to show you the second way that you can toggle this. Now, I can toggle it again by hitting that pipe key which is above your inner or return key. But I can also toggle it by holding down the Shift and Alt key on a PC, Shift option on the Mac and clicking the thumbnail. That is another way to toggle this particular mode on and off. so, just with the application of the powder here, let us just Alt or option click on the background thumbnail and that is going to turn all layers off but the visibility for the background so, Alt option click here. Alt option click again to turn everything back on, just with those little steps it is vast improvement.
Now, I am going to show you how to fine tune some things here. Right now, we have got the powder on at 100%. Now, my preference for this and again you can like look inside and it has got a couple of layers. The way this powder works it is not a Gaussian blur layer. It is a specific formula that I mixed up and it allows you to paint powder on and get close to the edges without getting an over blur of the dark area which is what a simple Gaussian blur layer does.
So, I mean this really works quite well. You do not need to go inside here, inside this group and do anything to these two layers. There may be exceptions down the road, I will show you some little tricks later on, 99% of the time leave this closed and the only thing that you may want to tweak is the global opacity up here for the entire group. You may want to lower that to bring back some of the natural color and texture of the skin just to give it a more natural appearance.
That is what I am going to do is I am going to lower this one in this instance. I think I am going to keep it about 85% but there are some other areas I want to clear up that I can do quite nicely by duplicating the powder layer and to duplicate, and I say layer, you know I am talking about the set here or group. So, I am going to drag this group by the folder icon to the new layer icon and it is going to duplicate that copy there. That powder. But what I am going to do is fill this all with black because I just want to add a little bit of extra powder just to certain areas.
So, I am going to fill this with black and here is the keyboard shortcut, if black is in your background position, you are going to press command Delete to fill up a layer or mask with black. If black is in the foreground position, it would be option or Alt+Del, so, or Backspace. So, I am on a PC, black is on the background, I am going to press Ctrl+Backspace, that would be command Delete on a Macintosh. So, this is all black.
Now, white with the foreground color, get my airbrush here. I am going to bump this back up to a 100% on this layer, this group. Now, this one is at 85%. This is the global powder, so, you have a nice even spread of powder over the entire face. Now up here, I am going to come in and tag just some troubled areas, like this, just to give a little extra coverage or get rid of some sheen and go to part three.
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