Photoshop
Elements 3 Tutorial
High Light Effect
Portrait Photography Tutorial
You can make a studio quality portrait out of
any good photo if you first crop the photo to a
good portrait composition. Open a new file using 'File
| New | Blank File' with settings in inches of
the final print portrait dimensions at 300 ppi
on a white background for inkjet printing.
Create a new layer and import or copy your photo
onto this layer. Resize the photo to fit into the
area of the background size. Elements will
automatically adjust the resolution of the photo
to print quality.
With the photo layer selected and white as the
foreground color, pick the dodge tool, brush
size about 30 for an 8 x 10, range=midtones,
exposure=50% and go around all the edges to
gradually blend them out to bright white. Remove
any unwanted background objects with a small
brush size.
Duplicate the layer and apply a Gaussian blur,
radius 1.0 to it. This softens the whole
portrait. Then using the eraser tool at 100%,
erase the facial features on the blur layer so
they will show through sharp on the finished
portrait.
Duplicate the white background and drag it to
the top of the layers. Using the round eraser
brush at 10%, erase the white top layer around
the edges of the portrait first and increase the
amount of white you erase as you get toward the
center of the portrait. Erase at 80-90% on the
facial features and gradually decrease the
amount of white you erase out toward the edges.
The finished portrait has a high-light soft
focus studio quality to it and will give you a
professional portrait if printed on satin or
gloss high quality photo paper with lightfast
photo inks on an ink-jet photo printer. Epson
photo inks are guaranteed for light fastness 80
to 100 years. Epson printers are professional
quality photo printers at affordable prices.
Visit
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quality photo inkjet printers.
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