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Using the eyedropper and the brush I started to work on the hair
Using the eyedropper I select the darker color of the hair and used it on the highlights that were standing out too much. I added some lighter color to the ends to make it look a little more real. For now I’m happy with it so let’s work on the rest of the picture.
Her skin tone is bothering me too since it is too light for the face. I shall change that. Using the eyedropper select the color more common to her face (the brownish color).
Now, at the top below Help there is something called Opacity. Here is the trick to make the skin tone darker, or brownish if you prefer
The opacity will determine the strength of the color you are using. Example: if you are using black at 100% it will be BLACK now say if it’s at 30% it will “burn” the original color (of the picture) slightly to a darker shade. Since we are using a brown color, the skin tone after I use the brush with opacity at 35% will make her whitish skin look a little different, darker.
Now that we got the opacity selected you may choose to use a bigger sized brush to make the job easier, don’t use one that is too big though you don’t want the whole picture to be the color of her skin :lol:
Yay! That’s done.
Notice I also changed the arm a little bit, she looked a bit too chubby for the face so I changed the hand a little to make her look slimmer (all I used was the brush no biggie). Now that I’m happier with the body I’m going to put the finishing touches on the hair, again best friend eyedropper comes to use in selecting the right color.
I basically just filled in on the empty space next to the red hair arrangement. Nothing too fancy.
Since the reflection on the mirror doesn’t quite fit we got to change that too.
Here comes the most awesome eyedropper again lol Just use it to select a darker shade of the hair and a darker shade of the skin.
Again opacity comes to play since you don’t want the skin in the mirror to call too much attention and be distracting.
This is where we are ready to save! Go to File/Save As.
A screen will pop up, this is important, make sure you save it to a file that you are familiar with. I use JPG/ JPEG since most, if not all, programs and web hosts can open these kinds of files. Name it whatever you want, select the file type and click on save (make sure you know where it’s being saved at) another little box will pop up just click ok. You may close this picture now, since you “saved as” you won’t need to worry about the original picture getting lost (in case if you wanted to keep the original without the changes).