Photoshop Elements comes to the rescue again – this time it was a rescue from washed-out splotchy looking lipstick!
I had mentioned to my photography class last weekend that I needed a head shot and they kindly volunteered to use me as a test dummy. Umm, I mean, they kindly took pictures of me. And did a great job too!
I have to say that I was very uncomfortable posing in front of 8 cameras. Like good photographers, my awesome class even helped me relax!
Anyway, we had already been in class for two hours and my lipstick had long since faded.
It’s not terrible, but you can see how the lipstick has worn away around the edges. This picture, by the way, took a quick trip through MCP’s Complete Workflow (coming soon for PSE!) and MCP’s Eye Doctor and Dentist (already available for PSE). Next, I opened the image in PSE so that I could show you this technique.
To fix the lipstick, I used the eyedropper tool from the toolbox on the left side of the screen and clicked on an area where my lipstick color was good. This eyedropper tool selects the color you click on as the active color.
Next, I added a Color Fill Adjustment Layer (Layer Menu/New Fill Layer/Solid Color). It used the active color to create the fill and immediately turned the image into a lipstick-colored blob like this:
Not quite the effect I was going for! I filled the layer mask with black by going to Edit/Fill/Black, which completely hid the effect. Next, I selected a small, soft white brush and painted in over my lips to reveal the lipstick color. It still didn’t look right:
The blend mode of my Color Fill Layer was set to Normal, which didn’t work because the texture of my lips didn’t show through. Changing the blend mode to color and reducing the opacity solved my problem. Here is the final layers palette:
Note that by clicking on the lipstick-colored thumbnail on the Fill Layer, you get this Color Picker box where you could change the color of your lipstick – make it a big brighter, redder, whatever – just by clicking on the color you want.
Here is the final image:
Thanks, Photography Class, for taking my picture. And thanks, PSE, for saving my face again! Don’t forget to place all your entries in the Kaleidoscope Collection giveaway! Next up on Texas Chicks is a tutorial on using some of the fabulous textures and overlays from this collection.
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That’s an awesome tip! I roll pretty quickly with all the “fun stuff” in Elements but I desperately need these little technical tutorials to put the finishing touches on everything. And the best part is that you make it so easy to learn quickly…thanks for passing that along. {that’s a great shot of you too…with or without the lipstick!}
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