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[Gigi]

Retouches, that is. There's something about making somebody look better...

Anyway, Katherine Heigl at the Academy Awards. Am I the only one who thought she looked WAY too made up? Her MA went crazy with the bronzer. I hated how her lipstick matched her dress, too.
Before:


After:
EDIT// Took Mark's advice and took lips from another image (random Scarlett Johansson) in an attempt for more dimension to her lips.

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(Previous version)


Toned down the makeup on the lips and cheeks - I think she looks much more natural this way. What do you think?

Eyelash brush from:
http://redheadstock.deviantart.com/art/Eye...rushes-60583855

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your right she does lookmore natural when you retouched her picture.
your really good yo
what program do you use?

[Gigi]

your right she does lookmore natural when you retouched her picture.
your really good yo
what program do you use?

Haha thanks. I use Photoshop CS3.

i LOVE this!! everything just looked so overdone with her cheeks and lips.

i've been trying to retouch her skin the way you did, but i can't quite figure out how you got everything to be one smooth color tone? i was using the healing brush but that's usually for spots.. i'm sure there's an easier way to fix her skin besides clicking the mouse 936579382 times!

Yeah, I basically used the healing brush. There's really no quick fix for it (not that I know of). I did help lessen the amount of healing I had to do though, with a few things:
1) Lightened the darkness in her cheeks; used lasso tool set at around 20 px feathering around dark spots, and adjusted Curves to make a bit lighter.
2) Selecting a larger area of her cheeks, again set to 20 px feathering, I applied Gaussian blur...I think around 2-3 px. This just helps for healing to be easier; her pores in the original make it a bit hard to smooth out, so a slight blur helps.

Apart from that, it's healing brush all the way! Occasionally I used the clone stamp because the healing brush does some weird things around edges (gets super dark).

Thanks all. :)