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Beauty tip: whiter teeth

select your teeth in PS (lasso works quite well but you can combine various methods by using shift/ alt etc to add/ subtract from you selection) > feather the selection by 1 pixel > create an adjustment layer "hue saturation" > choose the yellows from the drop down menu > drag the saturation slider pretty much all the way to the left > drag the lightness slider slowly to the right >click O.K. > play around with the opacity of that layer until you are happy.

You can save yourself the dentist that way

Happy photoshopping
Stef.

Yes- that looks brilliant! Well done. Basically in a nutshell: whenever you have any kind of selection- might be text, a shirt etc. and you put anything above that layer and group/ link it with the layer below than it will only show up within the selection. Now this can be actually really useful if you want to design something from scratch - let's say you want your own car design- select the outline of your car put your design on top of it and link those two layer and voila your design is just within the outline of your car. For text effects it is quite useful as well as you have shown!
Stef.
P.S. Thanks for your image- never know whether people want to have these Photoshop tips

Beauty tip eyes:

1.a. the most important tools in my opinion for enhancing the eyes (works also for the hair/ lips) are the dodging and burning tools: dodging: set range to highlights and exposure  to 5% and go over the white part of the eyes (you don't have to be too precise as it will only affect the highlights of the eyes- so you can go over the whole eye!)
burning: set the exposure to 5% and range to shadows and go once more over the eye- this time making the pupil/ iris of the eye darker
1.b. alternatively if you want to get the eye whiter:go to the layers panel and create a new adjustment layer "curves" > click O.K. without changing anything > set blending mode to screen (don't worry at this stage that the whole pic get lighter) > press ctrl - I > press the letter D > press the letter X > take the brush tool set to a small brush and start painting over the white bits of the eye (play around with brush size and opacity of the brush) > you can adjust the opacity of the layer as well. (I do prefer solution 1a though...)

2. If the eyes are slightly red- before you do step 1: select the whites (I prefer the Quickmask and brush tool- but any selection tool will do!) > select > modify > feather 1 or 2 pixels > image > adjustments > hue saturation > edit: red > drag the saturation slider to the left and the lightness slider a bit to the right and this should get rid of the red eyes

3. intensify the eye colour: Select the brown/ green/ blue part of the eye (iris) > modify > feather 1 or 2 pixels > ctrl + J (pastes the eyes onto a new layer- or you can go into layer > new > layer via copy) >set the blending mode of this layer to multiply and lower the opacity

4. Want to give the person a different eye colour? Select the braun/ green/ blue part of the eye (iris) > modify > feather 1 or 2 pixels > image > adjustments > hue saturation > tick the colorize box and play with the hue and saturation sliders

Keep in mind: 1.a. works wonders on hair and lips as well and is a very good alternative to sharpening the image at some times as it will raise the contrast! Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Happy photoshopping!
Stef.

I now realise that i dont understand photoshop as much as i thought i did, i guess that i understand about 2-3 % of it.

Your knowledge is immense Dr stef



Rob

HIi Stef
Great stuff again reckon you should write a book.Digital magic by stef.I like to use the paint brush tool soft brush and use the colour picker also like the healing tool very quick to use.

        Regards Steve.

Actions

1. open one image
2. find the tap "actions" either next to history or > window >actions
3. by the actions tap is a little arrow on the right hand side > click new action > give it a nice name > click record >now just do everything you would do with this one image and that you want to do with all your others at a later stage > once finished: at the bottom of your actions palette is a play button and also a stop button > click the stop button >now: very likely you have created your new action in the default action set- just click "default actions" so it becomes blue > click the little down arrow once more > click "save actions" and then O.K.
4. put all the images you want to convert with the same settings into one folder
5. file > automate > batch > find your action you have just created > source: folder > choose: find the folder with your images > all the next little boxes do not tick > destination; decide where you want them > give them new names if you want to > and don't tick anything else > click O.K. and this should do the trick

Saves a lot of time!

Happy photoshopping!
Stef.

"left to your curve: 2; now find point 114 > click and put under output 130 (the easiest way to do this is just to click somewhere above the last point on your curve and then move that point until you find 114) > find point 190: output 211 "

Clive- as said you actually can leave this step out

Will you marry me?

never got a marriage proposal over the internet!!! (hihi)
Stef.

Ali- if you look at the right hand side- you have got OK than below Cancel > Load > Save and below that you have a little box that says Colorize- tick that one! (It is above  Preview)
Good luck
Stef.