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Glowing Tan


Need a nice golden glowing tan without the risk of skin cancer?

Follow this tutorial to make anyone look like they just got back from the beach.

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Once you have your image, use the Pen Tool (P) to select the area of skin.

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Don't worry if you miss some places, just get the general curves of the face.

Right-Click and make a selection with a Feather of 1 pixel with the path you just made.

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Go up to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance and select these settings.

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Your image should look like this:

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In the layers palette, change the blending mode from Normal to Soft Light.

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Click on the second box to the right of the Color Balance layer's icon in the layers palette.

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Use a Soft Round brush (I used 13px) and change your foreground color to white. Brush the areas of skin that you missed. Like, I missed areas around her hairline.

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You should almost have a finished image now but, of course, you don't want to tan your eyes. Do you?

Using the same brush but a black foreground color, brush her eyes.

Now, you should be done and have something like this:

Hover over to see "before" image.

Tanning Tutorial: Final Result



Author's URL: SweDesignz.com
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