Photoshop Mama's Digital Makeup Example 2 - Part 4

Okay so, these are the base makeup layers and we are just going to go back in here and name our layers so that we will recognize what they are doing on the Mama’s powder copy I am just going to call this Extra Touch Up. And then on the Ager/Sharpen layer that is the overall sharpening and I have got that at 61% and so this will just say, Overall Sharpening. And then up here both of these are just doubled up and they are sharpening the eyes, lips and jewelry so I will just type that in, the sparkly stuff. And I want to take another look; I am going to just hold down my Spacebar and a Control key on the PC that would be Spacebar Command key on the Mac that toggles the zoom tool. So I can just click and release and I am zoomed in on the image then I can use my spacebar to toggle the hand tool when I press that down and see the little hand and when I have got the Spacebar held down I can click down on the mouse button and pay in my view around. Now I am going to come back here and clear up a couple of blemishes and I am going to do that by decreasing the sharpening in those areas. So I am going to come back and highlight the overall sharpening layer. And in order to conceal the sharpening in the blemish areas, I have to paint it with black. If you do not know the masking mantra by now I am going to tell it to you. It is white reveals and black conceals. White reveals the set of instructions are the flavor you got set here whereas black is going to conceal that. So, the instructions here are to sharpened. That is what inside here is an Ager/Sharpening thing. So anyhow, with black we going to come over here and just have this little blemish boom. And that really hides it quite well. So I will just do that in couple other little spots. And I see here decreases the sharpening its less emphasis on the texture when you do that. Okay, so we have done that this all with this layers here, this groups. And we have not even touch the spot healing brush or the healing brush or the clone tool. And there are instances where you will have to do that and I did that in the last tutorial but in this one, we do not have to. So that all looks pretty good to me, I am going to click on the sharpening layer again and bump up the sharpening a bit just to see overall how that looks because I do like it kind of sharp and let me just zoom in to about 50% here and let us say in a hundred. It is up there and now I think going to come down probably around 75%. And then, I will hit Control minus on PC, Command minus on a Mac to zoom out. And now, we are going to organize this into another set. I am in CS2 and this works in CS3 where you can highlight a particular layer or a group and if you want to have everything temporarily linked in a contiguous fashion you shift click on the bottom group or layer and they are all highlighted but you cannot do this in version CS in Photoshop 7. And what I am going to do is put this in another layer group and normally I will just hold the Shift key down and click on this folder icon. But I am going to do it the manual way. Just for those persons that have version CS or version 7 to group all this in. And I would just simply select a group down here or it would be set in the previous versions and then I am going to just name this, the Base Makeup Layer. And then I will just drag and drop these particular sets inside here when its outlined and highlighted is going to drop and indent. And so now it is inside of the base make up folder. So I can do this and I am starting at the top and they will come in going down. So I will start at the top and drag in and they fall in it the bottom. The same order that they are in right now. So all those groups are indented and inside the based make up group but this would be called a set in version 7 in CS. So we are just managing our layers pallet here. So the next thing that I might want to do is look at the image and like I said you can sometimes I like do things out of order. I am going to work in levels this time so, that you can have an understanding of how to mix colors better in that adjustment. Last time we used curves and just to show you the comparison, I am going to open up curves here. And by the way if you want—we want these next layers to come in outside of the base makeup layer. So be sure before you do it that your set or group is collapsed because if it is open then it might pop inside of there. You can always drag it out but it get a little tricky and sticky sometimes. So have that group collapsed and I am going to select curves and if I wanted to overall darken this image I click a point in the middle of the line here. This diagonal line and as we went over in the first make over tutorial in a composite channel when you drag upward or to the upper right anything above that diagonally line is going to lighten when you drag downward. To the lower left it is going to darken. Okay. So we just have that—I am going to cancel out here and show you how we do that in levels. I am going to invoke levels. And instead of clicking a point in the middle of that diagonal line, we are going to click on this middle gray slider here, underneath the histogram window in the levels dialogue box. This is called the gamma slider or the midpoint slider. And if we drag to the left it is going to brighten the image and if we drag to the right, it is going too dark in the image. And notice how the numbers changed up here in the input levels dialogue box. The default number here if you want it right back in the middle is 1.00. So I want to darken this a little bit. Just give it a little bit more mood. So I am going to just drag it .91. And you can click this preview box on and off to look it before and after just give it a little richer flavor. Okay. So name that layer Overall Darken. So I know what it is for. Now the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to put some eye shadow on her. Continue to Part Five of this series.