Here’s a link to the first version!

Project 1: The Portrait

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After Monday’s lesson, there were much improvements to be made.

The changes I made:

• Careful selection of skin portions using lasso tool for better tonality
• Liquify tool to enhance facial structure

BEFORE | AFTER

FINAL IMAGE

So I redid the portrait from the beginning and cleared most of the stray hair.

BEFORE 

AFTER

I proceeded with the usual COLOUR AND TEXTURE Layers. One thing i did change about my workflow this time was to lower the amount of gaussian blur i used for each lasso selection, around 13-16.

I applied a shortcut key for the gaussian blur filter too to really quicken the workflow! So Simple!

 

I added LIP BALM in post too (using the COLOR Layer) to try and salvage those chapped lips.

ROUGE COCO BAUME

BEFORE LIP BALM

AFTER LIP BALM

LIQUIFY TOOL

Using liquify,

• added a lil bit more volume to the hair.
• enlarged the eyes
• pushed her cheeks in a bit to slim down her face

BEFORE | AFTER GIF

Finalized everything by adding high pass and grain.

That’s all, thanks for reading!

Here is the PSD file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAwNlI40CuYJdvvgXUIs8x_rbhwFwtlj/view?usp=sharing