Beautify a portrait

In this tutorial we will know to beautify a portrait in basic steps
Lets see this beauty:



Her old look:


In fact, its pretty simple and you can follow on your own stock.


1. Duplicate your base. We can see her skin is not soft and smooth, the color is very dark, and has many freckles. Use Apply image like the pic below:

 

This step is to make her skin brighter and reduce saturation.

2. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E we get a new layer. Duplicate this layer. Set it to Gassian blur , set it to 9. Then add a new layer mask, choose Hide all. Use white paint brush to paint on the skin avoiding the shape of her face, nose, eyes. Then we can see the difference:

 

3. Create a new layer, choose soft brush , color ff9fb6 to paint on the lips. Set it to Color 100%. Duplicate it twice.


4. Create a new layer, choose 0092ff and layer with Color mode and then paint brush on the eyes.



5. Create a new layer. Choose ffbeee for brush, paint on her eyelids like that ( set it to Overlay 100%)


6. New layer again, choose ffb2b8 for brush paint on her cheeks, Normal 90%.


7. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E again. Set this layer to Normal, 22%. Use Burn tool, 5px to paint lightly to darken the edge of her nose.

 

8. Crtl+Shift+Alt+E. Set this layer to Normal , 60%. Use Dodge tool, 23px to lighten up the straight of her nose. We have result:

 

It's done!
I hope you will enjoy my tutorial :)