I got inspired from viewing "Rose the one", a perfume ad of D and G in that the famous French photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino took Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson with classic sexy poses to express woman's fragrance. These pics are filled with soft, sweet, elegant and warm pink tone that make people feel extremely comfortable, romantic and sexy.
Final effect:
This effect is just suitable for indoor photos as its background is based on a light color, a bit dreamy,so a background with high contrast between dark and light doesnt fit this tone.
1. Duplicate your pic. You must soften the skin if it needs. With my chosen pic, i think her lips are too thick and sexy so i use lasso tool to create a selection around the upper lip. Choose Turbulence from Liquify filter with parameter like the pic below to make it smaller and thinner .
Do the same with under lip.
2. Then open the source pic ( rosetheone pic). Choose Eyedropper tool to click the midtones of source pic to pick up a basic tone. We can see foreground color is set to new color (e4ac91). Then come back to your pic.
If your pic is dark or bright, so use your fave method to increaseor decrease the light. To my pic, i skip this step.
3. Create a new fill color layer with foreground tone. Set this layer to Color 100%.
4. Create a new levels layer:
5. Now adjust the tone on a new selective color layer:
Red: -76, 18,24,-41
Yellow: -100, 20,-24,-16
White: 100,0,-3,-17
Neutral: -6,-4,0,-4
6. Now we will adjust the tone of skin. Skin must be brighter and lighter than the background. Create a new layer , set to Screen 40% and use soft brush with foreground tone to paint on the skin, eyelids, and teeth.
7. Create a new layer and choose color f28a76 to paint on lips, set this layer to color 50%.
8. Choose Eyedropper tool, click on her cheeks to pick up the color of her skin (eec6b2). Use soft brush to paint on her cheeks and set this layer to Multipy 25%.
9. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E. This tone requires the eyes must look natural so i will reduce the light on her iris. Create selections around the irises then choose Image-Adjustment-Brightness/contrast:
Then Ctrl+U to adjust Hue/Saturation:
10. Create a new layer and set to Overlay like that:
Use Dodge tool with Highlight, Exposure 50% to lighten the eyes:
11. Create a new layer, set to Soft light 100%. Use soft white brush to paint around her eyes to reduce the reddess.
12. After all these steps, i see the color of hair is not good. Looks like her hair is in "color cast". To reduce it i create a new layer, use soft brush, f2be79 and paint on the hair, then set this layer to Color 22%.
13. Create a new layer, use soft brush , cb876fpaint on background and then set this layer to Screen 35%.
14. We're almost done, but i notice that i forgot her dress. Create a new layer again, use soft brush , fabda8 to paint on it, set this layer to Multipy 20%.
And now our work really finishes. To many pics, you may skip some steps.
Compare the effect:
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