Portraiture Photoshop Plugin

The portraiture plugin for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements can be found on
http://www.imagenomic.com/pt.aspx.

Photoshop Elements SIG 12-17-08

Fix Red-Eye and color Cornea

1. Openphoto in Full Edit or Quick Edit.
2. In Quick Edit try the Auto Fix but if this doesn't work, pick the Red Eye tool in Quick Edit or in Full Edit and click in the red of each eye.
3. and eliminate red
4. Go to Full edit and use the Quick Selection tool to select the left eye and then add to the other eye using pressing the Shift key when using the Quick Selection tool to add the selection.
   
5. With the eye selected add a Solid Color Adjustment layer
6. Choose the color you want and
7. Change Blend mode to overlay and reduce opacity to suit.

Whiten Teeth

1. Open model in Quick Edit
2. In Quick Edit – paint with the Whiten Teeth brush found at the bottom of the panel.
3. With Selection Go to Full Edit
4. Adjust the opacity
5. Ctrl+click on Adjustment layer to make the load the selection of the teeth
6. Add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer
7. Reduce the Saturation to remove any color (like yellow)

Smart Objects – New Frame Layer

This is from a tutorial on Photoshop.com

This technology started in V5.0 and is used in photo collages and photobooks. We’ll look into the technology

1. Open an image in Full Edit.
2. Use Free-transform to downsize to postage stamp size. Click accept
   
3. Use Free-transform to restore to original size and click accept.
   
4. Notice the jaggies - not sharp
5. Undo
6. Choose Create – Photo Collage
7. Select a Page size
8. Choose Theme – no theme
9. Pick a layout - simple, for landscape image choose the first one.
10. Uncheck – Auto place
11. Drag in image from bin
12. Resize down and then up
    
13. Notice no lack of sharpness.

Holiday card

1. File > New 8 in X 4 in – 240 ppi
2. File > Place holiday-card background
3. File > Place command brings your image in a something called a smart object. Smart objects can be scaled up or down, rotated, or otherwise transformed without sacrificing quality. If you do need to scale your background image, and want to do it proportionally, make sure the Constrain Proportion box in the Options Bar is checked.
4. Scale to fit.
5. Ctrl + J to dupe background
6. Blend to Multiply, this will darken the image.
7. Make sure default colors are set to black as the foreground color
8. Add a gradient adjustment layer and choose the second gradient from the left in the top row, Foreground to Transparent.
9. Click the Reverse checkbox, and click OK.
10. Select Rectangle Shape tool (U) draw a rectangle approximately where you would like the family picture to appear.
11. Duplicate the shape layer by pressing control-J and rename the original shape layer White Rectangle.
12. Hide the black rectangle layer by clicking the layer visibility icon.
13. Click on the white rectangle layer and making sure why he is still your foreground color, press control-backspace. This should fill the shape with white.
14. The bottom shape will serve as the frame for the pictures, so it needs to be a little bigger than the black shape on top. Using free transform, and with the alt key drag one of the side borders. Using the alt key both sides will resize equally.
15. Repeat this for the rectangle tight and accept the transformation.
16. You’re white rectangle layer should still be targeted. Hold down shift on your keyboard and click the black rectangle layer. With both rectangle layers selected, click the Link Layers icon at the top of the layers palette.
17. Free-Transform, position the cursor outside one of the corners and rotate at a slight angle and reposition on the paper if necessary, because both rectangle layers are linked together they will transform at the same time.
18. Press Enter.
19. Unlink the layers
20. It's time to add your family photo. Go to file > Place and navigate to the photo. We plan to use. Because it is a Smart Object until you press enter or return, it can be scaled without affecting the quality. Checked the constrain proportions box in the option bar to scale the image proportionally and rotate it to 50 angle of the rectangles we created. Your image should be a little larger than the black rectangle.
21. Press Enter
22. In the Layers palette, position the photo layer directly above the black rectangle layer. If it's not there already.
    
23. To have the image appeared only in the the black rectangle press control-G, which creates a clipping group. You can use the move tool to position the image inside the rectangle. Using a clipping group allows you to use other photos in your template if you wish. All you need to do is place another photo directly above the black rectangle and protect and press control plus G2 clip it to the rectangle area.
24. Use the Text tool to add text

Enhancing the Sun’s Rays

1. Create a new blank file 500 pixels by 500 pixels.
2. Select the Gradient tool from the toolbox.
3. In the top left of the options bar click on the small downward facing arrow on the Gradient Picker, which lets you choose a specific gradient. We're going to choose from a different gradient group, so click the small double arrows to the top right of that window and choose the Noise samples preset from the list.
   
4. Then click on the transparent pixels per gradient-the last one in the noise gradients list-and will use this gradient for the project.
5. The five icons to the right of the Gradient pickerare the types and gradients we can apply. We'll choose the Angle Gradient the middle icon here. Move your cursor to the middle of the image and click and drag toward the bottom right corner to create the gradient. You don't have to be exact, but it is close to the center as possible.
6. The grain is fairly uneven for what will need to do layers so we'll drag a gradient three more times once from the center to the bottom left corner and then from the center to the top left and finally from the center toward the top right. That will even out the effect can make it look more realistic when we add it to our photo.
7. We don't want to have any color in this gradient so will go to the Enhance menu and choose Adjust Color> remove color.
8. To add more punch go to levels and slide the black slider over toward the left edge of the histogram and the white slider toward the right edge of the histogram then click OK.
9. Select all and Copy
   
10. Now we're ready to apply this to a photo. Choose. Open the image we want to apply it to and paste the gradient onto it
11. Obviously the gradient tool looks quite funky the way is laid out on top of the image, changing the layers blend mode from normal to overlay will help out a lot making it look like some really intense sunbeams. Use the move tool to move the center of the gradient over the Sun.
12. Finally, select the eraser tool from the toolbox click on the one of the brush presets and use a large 300 pixel brush and erase around the edges so the rays will just affect the immediate area around the Sun.
13. If you want to re-create this effect all over again, you can save it and open it in again to reuse it without going through all the steps of creating.