Tutorial
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In this tutorial I will show you how to improve the look of a portrait image in a few quick steps. First, we need a picture. A big picture so we can make sure the details are not altered. For this tutorial I will use this picture:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024aa.jpg)
To quickly edit this image, I will not use Photoshop. Instead I will use Reshade Image Enlarger that will to the job as good as Photoshop if not even better. So, here are the settings that I’ve used:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024ab.jpg)
And here is the image:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024ac.jpg)
At first, the difference might not look that big, but zoom in and you will see what a big difference there is:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024ad.jpg)
Now let’s add some cool curly lines over the image to give it a classy effect. So, I’ve created two images, using letters from the Rothenburg Decorative font (I’ve cropped some parts from the letters R and S). Here are the images:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024ae.jpg)
Import the images in the project, put them in the corners and select the blend mode to Soft Light (both of them). The final image should look like this:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024af.jpg)
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024aa.jpg)
To quickly edit this image, I will not use Photoshop. Instead I will use Reshade Image Enlarger that will to the job as good as Photoshop if not even better. So, here are the settings that I’ve used:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024ab.jpg)
And here is the image:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024ac.jpg)
At first, the difference might not look that big, but zoom in and you will see what a big difference there is:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024ad.jpg)
Now let’s add some cool curly lines over the image to give it a classy effect. So, I’ve created two images, using letters from the Rothenburg Decorative font (I’ve cropped some parts from the letters R and S). Here are the images:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024ae.jpg)
Import the images in the project, put them in the corners and select the blend mode to Soft Light (both of them). The final image should look like this:
![](http://cbimg6.com/tutorials/09/02/14024af.jpg)
Tutorial Comments
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cant find out that with the smooth thing.
By Photoshopisfuture on Feb 22, 2009 1:28 pm
this is awsome! thx :]
By Forsaken-vampiress on Feb 16, 2009 9:50 am
Tutorial Details
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Submitted on | Feb 12, 2009 |
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Approved on | Feb 12, 2009 |