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Lets face it - making people beautiful in Photoshop isn't exactly difficult.
A quick dabble with the healing brush and clone stamp can make even your mother
in law look like a professional model. But what if you want to achieve the
opposite effect in Photoshop? What if you want to turn a portrait of your
cosmetically perfect sibling into something that will seriously make them worry
about their complexion for years to come? Well then, you are in
luck! This tutorial details a remarkably simple way to add sweat and
grease shine to your photos, using nothing more than the default tools.
All you need are a high-resolution photograph,
Photoshop, and a cruel disposition...
Important: Please
note that this tutorial works by enhancing surface detail already present in
stock images. If your source image is overly light, dark, or lacks decent
color depth, the results will not come out as intended!
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Step 1:
Open up a stock image in Photoshop of any size and/or format. If you have a
darkly-colored source image you may want to spend a few minutes playing with
the contrast/brightness to improve the overall color clarity. Please
note that the image to my right was grabbed from the excellent
SXC.HU archive - where there are portrait pictures aplenty. |
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2: With the background layer selected in the layers palette, choose
Layer > Duplicate Layer from the main menu. Select the new duplicated
layer in the layers palette, rename it 'Sweat', and remove the color
from the layer via Edit > Adjustments > Desaturate. Once you
have done this, change the layer blending mode to Lighten. |
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3: Now onto the fiddly bit! With the Sweat
layer still selected, load up the Image > Adjustments > Brightness /
Contrast dialog, and drag the contrast slider all the way over to
+95. Without pressing OK, drag the Brightness slider way down
until you are given the best possible sweat/grease shine effect. For
my example on the right, I needed a brightness setting of -95. Yours
will probably differ. Press OK when you are happy with your result. |
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4: In most cases the shine will be a little too strong, so reduce the
sweat layer's opacity a little until it looks more realistic.
You may also want to use the Eraser Tool to remove unwanted areas of shine
from other areas of the photo, such as clothes, etc. A quick sweep
with a 100% strength eraser coupled with a hard-edged brush should correct
these problems.
And that's it! Have fun, and remember not
to be too cruel! After all, the poor soul on the receiving end of your
photographic manipulations may know how to use Photoshop too... |
- Tutorial written by Man1c M0g
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