And again, some people you know may like to lower the opacity on the brush. I try to keep things simple and so that it looks even. And again one of the problems with using the opacity up here is you forget that you toyed with it and so when you go back to do another technique, it may not be working as it should. And again, if you apply the powder all over at lower opacity, it can come out blotchy. So for that initial puff of powder, I really do suggest leading both of these controls up to 100%.
Okay, let us talk about the sharpen layer here. I am just going to turn the visibility off for this. Now by default, remember, this comes in and none of it is showing and we did that Ctrl+I, Command I to put a sharpening on overall. If you do no want to that then just use the methods that we use down here for the powder copy but what I like to do is I do like things really sharp. Especially if you are going to print this in the magazine you almost want to add a little extra sharpening.
So again, you can double up on this by simply dragging that group to the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers pallet and you get a double dose of sharpening here. And then you can—we got 100% down here. Now we may want to lower—I would suggest lowering this bottom one and let me turn the visibility off for the new one we just did. Let us lower this one to be just for the skin sharpening here. So we are sharpening the lips a little bit and the cheeks and stuff. So we got his around 58% to 60%.
Okay. Now I want to add at this other layer up here at 100%, so we got actually 160% if you add together but I do not want 160% all over. So I am going to selectively paint some sharpening on. So in that case when you ask yourself these questions, what I want to do, you will know whether to invert the mask or leave it white. Because if I just wanted to hide some sharpening in certain areas a little bit then I paint with black but if I want to paint as little as possible so that is why you have to ask yourself the question so you will know whether the mask should be black or white.
So in this instance, I am going to invert it to black with the Ctrl+I on a PC, Command I on Macintosh. Okay, I am coming back. So I want to reveal an extra dab or sharpening around the eyes. So that I have to paint just a little bit that is why I inverted it to black because painting with white is going to reveal that extra sharpening and a little bit of sparkle to the lips. And one thing I forgot to do down here on the powder layer and here is the beauty of all these wonderful editable mask is I forgot to take the powder off of the jewelry and the earring.
So I am just going—before I forget come down here and highlight the Mama’s Powder layer here. And I am going to toggle back to the mode, just going to hit the pipe key, like this. And I am going to get a teeny tiny brush like this. And I am going to click with black which makes the green there. And then move it out a little bit and shift click. I am going to use that snap tool method because I do not have a study hand with a mouse. I can work for hand much better with a welcome but I really want to show you folks our there how to work it with your mouse too. So this is what I am doing here and same thing here on the earring. Click Shift click so, that it snaps to it and you can draw nice lines when you do that.
And we see another spot up here that has got a little overspray and I will use that click Shift click method. Click, first, click once, and then, click again with the Shift held down, keep the Shift down. Now if you change areas and you still have your Shift key down that is what going to happen. I am going to undo that for you. So if you move to a different area to use that start your initial with just a click and then start holding down your Shift key. And move in your mouse and have in it snap to it.
Okay, that looks pretty good. And hit the pipe key again to shut that off so we have got the powder. We will look at that mask in the window there that looks good. And come back up to our sharpener layer here. The other things that you want to sharpen extra sharpen for extra sharpening are the—is the jewelry here. And so, I can just do that same method here. I am going to just click with white. And how you want to work—if you want to work just in the document like this which you can or in the mode you always want to kind of check your Mask especially for powder overspray that is the thing you do not want that powder overspray going into other areas.
Well maybe you do because it provides a little softening effect. The only time that is really detrimental is that you have a white seamless and you do not catch. Or some type of colored seamless and you do not catch overspray because it is going to look like makeup sprayed on a solid background but if you have other elements on the background like we do here, it is probably not as critical to get that powder overspray out. It might even be something you like looking at to soften the effects.
So we have added at this sharpener layer and if I want to double up on those areas even more again, I can have as many of these sharpener layers as I like just to emphasize, you know, until I get it as sharp as I like. And I want to show you another trick here. Okay, I have got this one edge or sharpener here. This are duplicates with the same revealing amount and I am going to work on this one right here because what else anything shiny metallic like this gold over on her dress here. Let me hit X here because I got a little bit too much on the chin. Shiny stuff looks great with extra sharpening on it. So I am going to dab some of that on there.
Now if I want to transfer this mask to this one. This is great in CS2, you just have to hold down your Alt key on the PC, Option on a Macintosh and grab the mask and drop it there. And it is going to ask you to replace and you say yes and so now, I have got this double up here and let me move this out of the way. And show you how that sharpening looks. I am just going to slide this through this two to shut them off and you can see how that really just bumps up some things here. And then, you may just want maybe make it like a 171% or something. So play with these little things.
Okay so, we have gotten—let us see what we have so far, let me move this down and I am going to Alt or Option click on the background layer and Alt or Option click to put it back on. And normally, from start to finish this would take maybe 5 to 10 minutes but because I am instructing, it is taking a longer time because I am trying to have you just sort of embrace this concept so, that you can be free of manuals. I want you to get it feel for how this works.
And I do not do everything the same way all the time. Like I do not put on necessarily my powder before my mascara or my mascara before my powder, the order of things is totally up to you. Be free it is like; it is like cooking a good spaghetti sauce. You may throw in, you know the garlic first and basal second or basal first and then garlic. It does not matter but the end result, it is all going to melt together and it is going to look good. You just develop your style and method from the concepts that I am showing you here. Continue to Part Four.
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