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Base - Amelia's Fairy Tale

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This is the base arrangement for my WP [link]

I've uploaded so I can give some tips on what I fiddled with in PS to get the end product. So you can fiddle with the original image and know what I am talking about (rather than start at the beginning with screencaps, cutting and pasting etc)

Blur the Circle
1. Duplicate your layer
2. With the duplicate layer selected -> Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur. Blur Method = Zoom, Quality = Best and Amount = 22
3. This of course blurs the whole image so using an eraser or a layer mask, you erase the blur away from the central images so that it only effects the outer ring of the circle.
4. Duplicate this layer and set it to Screen 100%

Now you have a nice spacey zoomy light circle.

Smoother Skin
1. Duplicate the layer
2. With the duplicate layer selected: Filter -> Noise -> Median. What settings you use depend on the picture. For this one I set the Radius to 2px.
3. Next I smooth it out a bit more: Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur. Again this depends on your image but I set it to 2.4px. I know it's really really blurry but we'll fix that.
4. Apply a layer mask. You can do this: Layer -> Layer Mask -> Reveal All. Or at the bottom of your layer window click on the icon that looks like a square with a white circle in the centre. Fill the layer mask with black using the paint bucket tool or just press Ctrl+I
5. With the layer mask selected use a soft round brush in white to paint Amy/Doctor/Rory's skin (allowing the smooth layer you just created to come through) Try to avoid the eyes, lips, eyebrows and hair.
6.Set the layer Opacity to about 50% (depending on how 'Magazine Smooth' you want it) and Layer -> Flatten Image.

Some other nice tricks

Duplicate the layer and with the duplicate selected: Filter -> Stylize -> Diffuse. Select Anisotropic. You can get some odd sharpish texture when you do this so I always add a blur: Filter -> Blur -> Blur or just blur out any sharpish bits with the blur tool

Set this layer to about 50% - 80%, if you want it stronger on the background and hair just erase parts off the face so you don't wash out the features.

What I also like to do is sharpen the image up a bit: Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask. Amount 100%, Radius 1.5px

Sharpening the eyes - basically duplicate the layer and with the background layer selected apply an unsharp mask. Then select the duplicate layer, get your eraser tool and erase the eyes so the underlying sharpened layer is revealed.

Darkening the outside of the eye - Using the Burn Tool (found underneath the blur tool)in a small size set to Midtones/Exposure 23%, outline the eye. It makes it stand out just that little bit more. If you have a front on image you can also outline the iris's of the eye.

Selective Color - which can be found under Image -> Adjustments or by clicking the half black half white circle at the bottom of your Layer window and bringing up the menu. With this image I played upped the reds, cyans and blues. Eg. For Red - I reduce the amount of cyan to -45% and increase Black to about 20%.

I also love to use Gradient Maps set to Soft Light at varying opacities

I hope this makes a little bit of sense - goodness knows, I rarely do :D
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helenofargos's avatar
Nice digital art! THat's really neat!