Moonie's Lesson #12

Thursday, March 25, 2004


To start off, save the girl and the background below into your system.


1. Increase them both to 16 mil colors.(shift + Ctrl + 0)

2. Grab part of the face with your Selection Tool. Settings are: Ellipse and Feather 26. Antialias checked. Click ok.

3. Copy and Paste on bg as a New Layer. When satisfied...Merge Layers.

4. Go to your Aetherize and with settings: Blur 17, Hues 51, Colorize 17, Haze 0, Dreaminess 28 and Glue Normal. Click ok.

5. Now go and apply Niks Midnight Sepia filter. Settings are: Color 10%, Blur 10 pix, Brightness 100%. Click ok.

6.Apply Effects...Enhance Photo...Automatic Contrast Enchancement. Settings are: Bias-lighter, Strength-Normal, Appearance Natural. Click ok.

7. Now take your Retouch Tool Color to Target, settings are: Size 17, Hardness 74, Opacity 13, Step 31, Density 100. Use Color R178 G147 B144. Colorize her cheek by tapping the color around.

8. Continue using the same color and tool except change the size to 7. Colorize her lips and eyelid.

9. Now go to Effects...Enhance Photo...Automactic Color Balance. Settings are: Strength 9, Remove Color Cast clicked on, Temperature 7050. Click ok.

10. Go to your Retouch Tool Soften and with settings: Size 6, Hardness 0, Opacity 100, Step 25, Density 100. Smooth the ridges out of her cheek.

11. Add a New Raster layer. With color White and font Beautiful Caps, size 18. Add your intitial or...your whole name if desired with Beautiful ES.

12. Add a Drop Shadow with the color Black. Settings are: Vertical and Horizontal 1, Opacity 75%, Blur 3.7. Click ok. Lower layer Opacity to 90%

13. Add another New Raster layer. With the color Black add your name again with font Bank Gothic, size 10.

14. Overlay second name over the first name. Add another drop shadow with color White and same settings as in step 12.

15. Add another Drop Shadow changing the Horizontal setting to -1. Click ok. Merge layers.

16. When satisfied with results....add your own bit of magic...

And Voila' you are done!!!

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