Photoshop® CS4: Top 100 Simplified® Tips & Tricks

Chapter 4. Retouching Portraits

You can use Photoshop to give your subjects a digital makeover and make them look more beautiful, younger, and healthier. However, it is so easy to alter images in Photoshop that new users often overdo it and make people look like plastic versions of themselves. You are trying to enhance a person's best features and minimize other areas, not turn him or her into someone else. If your subject looks at his photo and thinks that he looks good, you have done your job well.

You can use the tools in Photoshop CS4 to remove blemishes and red eye, enhance the eyes, whiten teeth, soften the face, and more. You can also change a model's hair color or eye color to fit a client's request. You can add a catch light to the eyes ...