Friday, October 29, 2010

Age 50 years in 15 minutes? (Photoshop)

In class, we did a little work with taking blemishes and acne away from a photo, and whitening teeth. A tutorial that I found does the opposite and ages a photo of Katie Holmes, increasing wrinkles in her face and marks.
This is the image we're starting with. In order to add years to her, the author suggest using a candid shot versus one that's been touched up in a studio.

Reference materials (photos of older women) are used for the agign process.
Next, is to play with her face?! Subtle touches are best!

The best tools for the job are the Clone Stamp (from your reference material that we used in class) and the Brush Tool.

Use different layers to sketch out wrinkles


Here is a photo of Katie in the aging process.
Remember to zoom in and out to get a full grasp of your project?!


Don't forget about the hair?!

As we learned in class, use the saturation and hue tools to add gray to her hair. Take advantage of contrast and brightness too?!

Next, use the brush tool to add details like a receding hairline.

Our Final Product (drum roll please...)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

6 comments:

  1. Fascinating find and perfect for Halloween. I can now send Halloween cards to friends with images of their older self;-)
    It really does make one realize how advertising can be so deceiving, seeing is NOT believing.

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  2. Wow! There is a drastic difference in the two photos. I think this was helpful because in class we did a demonstration on how we can take years off of a person but this helped to show us how to add year on. Good One!

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  3. Very nicely done. I'd love to see more of a step-by-step guide. Did you just use the rubber stamp brush to copy the wrinkles and details from one photo to the other?

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  4. This makes me laugh a lot! I agree with Shirley, I'm glad you showed us how to use the rubber stamp tool in reverse! I did not know this could be done. Thanks for sharing this helpful tip!

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  5. I didn't actually do this myself I found it in a blog and explained the steps to how it can be done :)

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  6. This is really impressive.... Just goes to show that it can sometimes take more effort to mess things up than it does to make them perfect!

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