Photoshop Portraits

Selectively Colour

• Open a portrait that you took, or one of you.
• Add a new layer LAYER>NEW LAYER
• Selectively colour an area of your image. Select a color on the FOREGROUND COLOR palette and use the ELIPSE tool on the tool bar to draw in your color, then LAYER> RASTERIZE>SHAPE
• Soften the edges FILTER> GAUSSIAN BLUR so the edges are soft (if you are tinting the eyes).
• Blend the colour into the portrait CHOOSE OVERLAY on the LAYER window on the colour layer.

Add Texture to Your Image

• Find a Texture using Google, save to your file
• Then in Photoshop, FILE>OPEN the textures image that you want to use for your texture.
• SELECT> ALL
• EDIT>COPY
• Go to your portrait file EDIT>PASTE
• Blend the texture into the portrait CHOOSE OVERLAY on the LAYER window on the texture layer.

Saving your image as a JPG

• First FILE>SAVE your image as a PSD file. Then
• LAYER>FLATTEN to combine all layers into one.
• FILE>SAVE  AS select JPG in the "FILE TYPE" selection box.
• Call it something new.
• Upload it to your blog...