Male portrait retouching how to#

Continually adjust your brush size to what is most relevant. Now go to filter>liquify and use the ‘pucker tool’ in order to bring in areas of the face, head and neck. If you want to keep a wrinkle in place, but reduce it’s intensity, then simply reduce the opacity of this tool, and you can partially conceal it. This can take a while, but take the time to go over the most prominent blemishes and lines of your face.Ī step that most people often don’t consider is reducing the opacity of your clone stamp tool. It’s important to keep this reasonably subtle, so keep your healing brushes as small as possible, rather than cloning huge areas. Use your clone stamp tool and spot healing brush tool to cover up most of the wrinkles, spots and blemishes on your subjects face. This is perhaps the most crucial step of your retouch.

Open up this image of a male photographic subject: Enjoy! Final ImageĪs always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: I think that the fact I’m using a male subject rather than a female one means that I can expose a few different styles than are exposed by most Photoshop tutorials on the subject.

Male portrait retouching how to#

For the purpose of this tutorial I’m going to demonstrate how to take roughly 10 years off of a middle-aged male subject. Whilst I’m against retouching in general, it can be fun to play around with the techniques, as it’s a great way to practice up on your photo manipulation techniques. For example, wrinkles can ‘show character’, gray hair can look sexy – things that would be impossible for a woman to be perceived as. Whilst these conventions are applying more and more to men (particularly celebrities), a man can show imperfections and get away with it far more. This is linked with the traditional media conventions of women as sex symbols, who are regrettably objectified as part of daily media. Traditionally tutorials have always focused on how to retouch female photographs.