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I'm currently working on a myspace project for a local R&B artist named Lily Rubio.

So far, it's a basic myspace with only a header and background involved but in her instructions she requested I take the picture you see above, as the header and make it sort of glamorous.

I don't get many of those requests but I have dabbled a bit in photo manips and touchups, or what I like to call "smooth touch" [smooth for swäv (pronounced suave in english) and swav for soundwav]

I then did some research to find some of the best and natural ways to touch up photos without overbearing them with color and filters.

Here's a small list of what I did along with handy tutorials:

• Eyes: Enlarged pupil, enhanced iris - Tutorial [link]
• Lips: Selected around the lips and used "selective color" to enhanced their redness.
• Skin: Some minor blemishes with clone tool - Tutorial [link] also [link]
• Color: Selective color as needed for greens (shirt), yellows (earings). Also saturated a bit the reds and yellows since I used the "levels" tool to bring them back.
• Levels: Darkened a bit the darks and lightened the lights.
• Blurs*: Used as an extra layer on top of the skin at 40% opacity to give it that smooth look. Also for the edges.
• Sharpen**: Believe it or not, sharpen gives it an extra umph. If you sharpen the layer under the blur a bit. It's sorta' complicated but it works.

*The blurs trick is something I sorta' learned on my own. I'm sure some people have better ways, but this isn't a tutorial, more of like an explanation of how I did it.
**Sharpen is also something I do on my own. Dunno how I ran across it, but all I know it give the pics some depth and texture if used right.

I'm not a professional Fashion toucher-upper dude, but I think it works. Once the myspace is up, you'll be able to see it at www.myspace.com/lilyrubio. I'll let you guys know when it's available.

Hope that helps somehow!

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*LarsonJamesART Sep 19, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
hey ive got printed out photo from like 10 years ago and i love the picture but there are printer lines and things like that in it. because i have NO idea where the photo came from i cant just re print it so i was wondering if youd be able to touch it up?

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~Anusha-kitty81 Nov 26, 2009
how can I apply selective color?I use PS cs so how? and selct the lips with what tool?

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Mood: Artistic ~ReformationMedia Aug 25, 2008
unlike all the other dudes commented, I actually like this transformation, very nice colors, definitely reaches the fashion scale

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~boyack Jul 5, 2008
Yeah it looks good but a bit too much, be carefull it doesnt look natural at all....
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~djsoundwav Jul 5, 2008  Professional Interface Designer
thanks! natural wasn't what I was aiming for. More of that super glamorous sort of look.

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~auctivsrf Jul 4, 2008
i like the retouch, but it looks a little over the top. I would probably tone it down so it doesn't look so "photoshopped" unless you're going for that look. It just doesn't look natural at all.
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~djsoundwav Jul 5, 2008  Professional Interface Designer
yep. like I told the dude above, I wanted that look. I actually have it with a more natural look too. Over the top was my aim.

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~oyvindronning Jul 4, 2008
That retouch is so porn, kool :P

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~bryceman111 Jul 3, 2008
Pretty good. Only thing is, I personally think that there is a bit too much blur, just a bit. But that could be just me... Anyways, excellent job!

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~djsoundwav Jul 5, 2008  Professional Interface Designer
I love me some blurrs. yum! ;p

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