Photoshop Face Makeover Tutorial
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Intro:
Learn how to manipulate a person's face with Adobe Photoshop, you can call it a digital face makeover which is done A LOT by designers for sites and magazines. I don't like it to do it over the top so it will be over obvious it was tweaked with Photoshop, I like to do subtle changes so it almost (I hope entirely) looks real. Changes to the hair, lips, nose, skin and eyes are always a focal point of attention for my face makeovers.
The before and after preview:
Step 1:
I'm going to mod this picture I took from a photo sharing site. As you can see she has a pretty nice face, things that irritate me the most as a designer are her lips and skin, so we're going to do those 2 first. Below is a down-scaled version of the original image.
Step 2:
Now let's begin for real! First we're going to handle the skin as it's the most dificult to manage in this tutorial (I like to do the hardest things first, that's just me 
). Make a new layer called skin and set the foreground color to #bf8971. Now select the brush tool with a hard brush and brush over the original skin until you covered the entire skin, don't go over the eyebrows entirely, and don't go over the rest at all. I have a drawing tablet myself so it's a lot easier for me to brush in parts (especially near the edges). If your done with that set this layer's opacity to 30% and it's blend-mode to Soft Light, then you should have something like this.
Step 3:
Make a selection of your skin layer, you can do this by holding the control key and clicking on the little thumbnail in Photoshop's layers pallette.
Now that you have your skin layer selected select your original layer (usually called "Background" or "Layer 0") in the layers pallette, and hit ctrl+C to copy only the part we have a selection of, in this case the skin. Now hit ctrl+V To automatically paste it into a new layer, rename this layer to "Skin with blur" and move it on top of the other skin layer. Make a selection of this new layer as we did before, and go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur. The reason we make a selection now is that we're going to apply a blur which will blur the layer and go over the edges of the real skin, this we do not want so we make a selection so the blur won't go over the edges of the skin. In the blur window set the Radius to 4.3 pixels and hit OK. Set the blend-mode to Soft light and opacity to 14%.
Step 4:
Let's tweak those nice shaped lips! As I said the shape is nice but she has very skimpy lips, it was probably winter when this picture was taken huh? 
Make a new layer called Lips and brush over the lips with the color #df0000. Change it's blend-mode to Soft Light and opacity to 22%, eh voila, nice lips at your disposal.
