Open Color Range.
Using the Eyedropper, select the background color.
Hold the Shift key down and select the areas you want to include.
Below is the areas I have selected.
Use Feather and specify 2
Open New Adjustment Layer.
Select Color Balance.
Under Midtones max out Red and Green in the positive and Yellow in the negative.
With Shadows selected set Magenta to -48.
For Highlights set Cyan to -36; Magenta -2; Yellow -52.
Select Invert.
Using New Adjustment Layer, select Curves and Group with Previous Layer.
Set anchor points where necessary and adjust.
Using a paintbrush, I set the Opacity to 45% and Flow to 6%. Added cheek color and lip color plus added a color highlight to the eye area.
Duplicate the picture layer and apply a rich black (CMYK = 50, 50, 50, 100) frame to the picture.
Rate and discussion this tutorial
Clippingimageclippingimages@gmail.com said on 2010-06-09 08:06:26 awesome piece of retouch work indeed...thanks man...thanks for sharing ...
