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Great tut 
Learned something new today, thanks!
Tutorial goal:
In this tutorial I will explain how to slim this woman's face down and apply some make-up.
We will also improve the smoothness of her skin and work on her eyebrows.
This tutorial is made for photoshop CS4.
Thanks to harrykeely for the model's stock.
End result:
Score: 6.87 / 10
Views: 24921
Credits earned for writing this tutorial: 
1500 ($15)
Step 1
For a start we must have in mind what are the main appealing characteristics on a male or female. In this case (i'll be working on a female model) elements like the eyes, eyebrows, nose and lips are essential to work on.
As you can see the girl in this stock is a little overweight, her nose is a bit large, her eyebrows have a line format, her smile is a little too opened and she has some irregularities on her skin . So let's start by working on all these anti-appealing factors.
Step 2
We have to pick one element to work at a time, I've chosen the eyes and the eyebrows.
To better transform any of the elements stated before, i advice using the ”Liquidify” tool (filter>liquify).
After going on the liquify tool, use the "zoom tool" or click on Z, maximize the image still you can perfectly see all the details on our currently two focusing points. Around 100%-200% should work fine.
Step 3
Switch to the first tool now, "Foward Warp Tool" (W) and set your brush size to around 30-70, the brush density to 20 and the brush pressure to 30.
The eyebrow looks a little large, so I'll begin by making it thinner. To create this effect use this tool and move it to the directions stated on the picture below. The movements are up-down direction at the top and down-up at the bottom.
At the end of the eyebrow make it a little longer but thinner.
Step 4
Once the eyebrow is thinner, i'll give it a more dynamic format. Using the same tool and sizes create a little curve at the end of the eyebrow and make the whole eyebrow in a soft diagonal format, don't be dramatic.
Step 5
Alright the right eyebrow is done. The left eyebrow is cut, so all you should do using the "Foward Warp Tool" is make it a little thinner and longer at the start , to match the right one.
Compare the old eyebrows and the new ones:
Step 6
It's the eyes turn now. Go to the liquify mode again and let's start editing it. The main goal here is to make the eyes smaller vertically and larger horizontally and to turn them a little bigger overall. Maximize to 66% and once again, using the W tool and a brush size of around 50-100, use a lower one for the eye line on the top.
Note that the line around her eye (on top) has to be decreased, check the image below for more details on the moves.
Once you've done this, use the "Bloat Tool" (B) on the liquify, increase the brush size to around 250 and the and the brush rate to 30, click 2-3 times on the spots below.
Step 7
You can do this to the left eye, all you have to do is to make it a little bigger at the left side.
Now let's focus on her skin, for the black and irregular spots let's remove them with the "Clone Stamp Tool" (S). The brush size will depend on the spot we want to cover.
For the wrinkles i'll use the "Blur Tool" with a strength of 55%.
Check the image below to know the critical areas.
Step 8
Nose's turn - back to the liquify mode.
We want to make it smaller and thinner, maximize to 100% and use the W tool with a brush size around 100-150 for the bottom and 30-70 for the top.
While you modify her nose you'll notice the smile lines will look weird so let's make them smaller as well.
Use the Pucker Tool (S) and use it on some parts (below) with a brush size of 180 and a brush rate of 30.
Look below for more instructions on the moves.
Step 9
Let's work on her face, make it thinner. Use the liquify and the W tool with a large brush size (300-400) and use it around her face.
Once you make her face a little thinner, her head will look too big so you need to make it a little smaller too. The same thing about her chest, cover it more with the blouse.
Step 10
Only one element left, the mouth! The mouth is not so bad so all we have to do is to make it a little smaller. Liquify > W tool, brush size of 100-150.
Step 11
You can do some personal adjust... i did some, made her head a little smaller, her shoulder more inclined.
Now let's start with the adjustments.
Making her teeth more white:
- Create a new layer and paint the teeth zone with a soft white (0% hardness) brush. Then set the layer mode to Soft Light and opacity to 45%.
Her eye balls:
- In a new layer, paint her eye balls with a light yellow (soft brush), then make it's mode to Overlay and opacity to 20%.
Eye make-up:
- In a new layer and a soft brush paint a thin like around the bottom of her eyes. Then go on Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur and add 15%. Then set the layer opacity to 65% and to the Soft Light.
- In a new layer paint her skin on the top of the eyes with a light blue, gaussian blur it (25%) and then set it to Overlay and 100% opacity.
Step 12
More adjustments... curves and a filter (check below).
Then select her face less the eyes, nose and mouth in the quick mask mode, then go to gaussian blur and add 3%.
Step 13
Select the burn tool with an exposure of 25% and shadows mode and add some to the eye balls and the lips, then select the dodge tool in the midtones mode and add some at the white part of the eyes.
This is what we got so far:
Step 14
Now right click on one of the layers and click on "merge visible" then duplicate the layer, go to gaussian blur and add 30%, then set this layer mode to soft light .
With the Eraser Tool at 75% clean the eyes and mouth part and some shadows like the face's line.
Final touches, i added more color and some more blue, color balance and vibrance (check below). Also used the sponge tool (saturate) to give more color to some areas like the lips and the eyes.
Step 15
And here's the final result:
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41 Comments
- [lvl 8]
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it's a nice work, but I think you've reduced too much the jaw: one thing is making people thinner, another thing is changing the shape of the skull. in the result her face looks too pressed to be real..
if you'd fix this thing your tutorial could be perfect :3
- [lvl 15]
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Well most "pro look" ad never show the "before look" in their ad( and I am not talking about those lose weight ad)... So we really don't know what were fixed( well hard core photoshop maniac are different issue) and the image looks great...
Here there is before and after image, so that mars the realistic nature of the image... However I do feel the eyebrow and the eye are not in proportion, even if it is suppose to look threaded...
Well apart from that the tutorial is nice... 
Guest:
quero fazer isso na minha foto
(150 days ago)
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Great tutorial, i learned a bunch of little tricks. Thanks
Guest:
I think she looked better in the original image. the worked image she looks to "Squashed"
(149 days ago)
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hmmm...
Learned a few tips on how to do some things but...
In step 6 you say "The main goal here is to make the eyes smaller vertically and larger horizontally"
then you make her face slimmer, and now her eyes and mouth look too wide for narrow face.
Think you went a little overboard.
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wow mazing tutorial.i love doing this job but u have illustrated this so nicely.thanks a lot.
(149 days ago)Guest:
she looks freaking scary in the after shot, jeez. you went too far, its all about being subtle. if the person in the photo saw what you did she would cry.
(148 days ago)Guest:
you should have stopped at 'step 7', the "after" is meant to look like the "before" but better, not worse
(148 days ago)
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It's all about perspectives... i guess if you get a picture of the same person right now and when he/she had a few more kgs/pounds more it will look similar. Of course it's too hard to predict how exactly someone will look when it's thiner but well you can get close.
(148 days ago)- [lvl 4]
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I think you ended up aging the poor girl by 20 years. You have some very useful steps for people who are new to retouching, but there is a stopping point.
(144 days ago)Guest:
Hey eyeballs kinda looked blue after. Good tutorial. Overdid the eyes and eyebrow but overall, great tutorial. ^____^
(138 days ago)Guest:
she looked better in the original
(137 days ago)Guest:
you made her ugly and alien-like, way to suck
(137 days ago)Guest:
she looked better in the original
(137 days ago)Guest:
no she looks better in the after result really!
great tutorial
thnkz!
Guest:
Better or worse is a subjective decision so we shouldn't concentrate so much on that here. What is definite is the useful techniques that this tutorial presents. Thanks.
(130 days ago)Guest:
It was a great tutorial but I really think you could have made her look a bit prettier.
The tutorial is supposed to be about turning an ugly chick into a hot babe. What you've done is turned a fat chick into a drag queen.
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where do we go for making this stuff anyway?? ..
(113 days ago)Guest:
this looks fake n disgusting...
(109 days ago)Guest:
great explaining techniques, I learnt a few things. But she looks fake in the end. touching up her roots and skin a bit would have been enough
Guest:
Great, now she looks like a hooker. O_o
(105 days ago)
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WOW. You explain well but your work does not match up to your explainations! The whole point of retouching is to fix and make things look better but no one knows WHY it looks better! Subtlety is a hard thing to master and it takes years of practice, so hang in there..........you may be able to grasp it one day.
(100 days ago)Guest:
Nice explanation on this tutorial while some of the points on her face is not appropriate like her eyes and mouth! I still like her original face though!
(99 days ago)Guest:
As one blogger surmised, if no one saw the before picture we would all be ignorant of any change. The resultant post-pic is fine. It's somewhat disproportionate relative to the first and that is to be expected. No human face is perfectly symmetrical anyway and no single aspect or part is flawless relative to another. That is subjective. However, the color and shading is a tad exaggerated. Yet, your demonstration is practical even if it did lack some visual finesse. This picture could be worked on for another hour and still get negativity. Don't sweat it. Good job.
(96 days ago)Guest:
The tutorial was great, I just don't like the finished result. I think that parts of it were good, like how the cheeks were done; but the whole thing with her eyebrows and the addition of such a horrible, cheap looking makeup is what killed it. It took it from a good tutorial on facial slimming to a good tutorial on how to do a before and after "the effects of drugs on your body" shot.
(92 days ago)Guest:
You did a great job
(90 days ago)Guest:
I definitley learned something new and those who mentioned that she looked totally different. Well, at least you taught some folks how to make people slimmer.
(90 days ago)Guest:
Thanks and keep up the great work.
(90 days ago)Guest:
this is great but i think that i will never get this,i am complete beginner i heard for photoshop not long ago. the best mark fom me. super super stvarno
(85 days ago)Guest:
LOL. Some of you are really funny. The point of this tutorial was how to manipulate an image, applying makeup and changing the shape of someone's face. When I look at the after shot by itself, I see nothing wrong. Some of you may be comparing the face to the original and saying that the model looks better before, but that isn't the point of the article. The point is that you wouldn't think twice about it if you only saw the altered photo without knowing that it was changed. The author of this tutorial needs to remove the before image on the last pic because looking at the after result by itself communicates the point that this woman's face is now changed. Having them side by side in the end causes people to do a comparison of the actual model's face - which isn't the point. The woman in the picture is pretty before and after.
Author, this was a good tutorial.
Guest:
She looks a million times better once you fixed her up. She went from a very fat, boring looking girl to a beautiful, thin one. Just wish you would have specified that all these tricks can't be done in basic Photoshop, we need Photoshop C2 or whatever you call it.
(74 days ago)Guest:
Oh that's right, you did. We need CS4. Got it, thanks.
(74 days ago)Guest:
Good Job. It is Very Intresting... Like it........
Guest:
omg, she looks like crap!
(48 days ago)Guest:
very excellent tutorial. learned something new today thank you!!!
(46 days ago)Guest:
you tutorial is great...
but...
the eye is not proportion to her face...
Guest:
how Download?
(36 days ago)Guest:
Nice lesson from photo shop. Thank you very much
(1 day 6 hr ago)
Great tutorial explaining stuff---I honestly thought the eyebrows and nose were fine like they were. The eyebrows kind of look fake now. Great job though! Still a high mark.
(150 days ago)