Converting an Ordinary looking Face to Photogenic Face

Photoshop is a wonderful Photo and graphics editing software,which if skilfully put to work can  used to do a lot of amazing manipulations and editing to ordinary looking images.Freckles,dark spots and dark circles may easily be removed from the image of person.with Photoshop,You can give a whole new and beautiful to a person whose image looks ordinary and full of freckles and dark spots.Here is a demonstration of how the image of an ordinary looking girl whose face is full of freckles is changed into the image of a beautiful girl with photogenic face.The image manipulations that you need to do in Adobe Photoshop are given below.

Both the original (Image Source : a) and Photoshoped Images are shown below:

Original Image

Photoshoped Final Image

1. Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the original image and perform all the subsequent manipulations on the duplicate image.The original image should remain unchanged and untouched so that the photoshoped manipulated final image may be compared with the original image.

2. First of all you need to clean the skin by removing freckles,dark spots and wrinkles.You can do this by executing Image >> Adjustments >> Levels command or you can simply press Ctrl+L to open the "Level window" and make the following settings in this window:

The image resulting from making above settings in Level window is shown below:

3. Now execute the command Image>>Adjustment>>Brightness and make the following settings in Brightness/Contrast window:

The image resulting from making above changes in Brightness/Contrast window is shown below:

4. Pick the Lasso Tool by clicking the icon (shown below) or pressing "L" and select different parts of cheeks,nose,chin and fore head one by one,after selecting each part of the image using Lasso Tool execute Filter>>Blur>Gaussian Blur command and set the radius of 2 pixels in Gaussian blur window.

Repeat the above step many a time till you see that almost all freckles and stains have been blurred and skin looks fine.The image resulting from repeating above steps is shown below:

5. Now pick up the smudge tool by clicking the icon for smudge (shown below) or by pressing "R" and change the strength of the smudge tool to 10%.Then use the smudge tool on different parts of the face,the resulting image is shown below:

6. Press Ctrl+J three times to duplicate the image,leave the original image and select the first duplicated layer.Change the bleding mode from normal to soft light and set the opacity of this duplicated layer to 25%.The resulting image is shown below:

7. Select the second duplicated layer and change the blending option from Normal to Soft Light leaving the opacity of this layer unchanged.Then execute Filter>>Blur>Gaussian Blur command by setting the radius to 10 pixels.The resulting image is shown below:

8. Select the third duplicated layer and change the blending option from Normal to Soft Light.Set the opacity of this layer to 50%.The resulting Image is :

9. create a new layer on the top all the layers and fill it with #bead72 color.Then change the blending mode option from Normal to Overlay and set the opacity of this layer to 32%.The resulting image is shown below:

10. Create another layer on the top of all other layers and fill it with #c6c0b7 color.Change the blending mode of this layer from Normal to Soft Light.Leave the opacity of this layer unchanged.The resulting image is shown below:

This is our final image that we have obtained at step 10.A comparison of photoshoped final image with original image is shown above.

Source : stunningmesh