Today I’ll tell you that how to change your hairs and your skin color using some filters effects and blending modes. And you want to give some Lighting effects to make photo better and more graceful.Firstly you must have a photo to retouch, open your photo in photo shop. I use the Photo below,

Step 1: Now we have to work on some skin effects, go to Select>Color Range and click on the face to work on it.

Now as seen in picture select ‘’Add to sample’’ icon and then click others places on face to do sample some more. Click OK When you have done your Work on face of the picture .

Now as picture says you will get some areas of selection like this:
Step2:Now you have to do press Ctrl-j to copy the selection areas of face and then change to blending mode of this copy layer to OVERLAY to make it more beautiful and Contrastive.

Step 3: Now to have to do that smooth the skin of picture by going to this path Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and now select a low but effective Radius value.


Step 4: Now merge all the duplicate layers into one layers by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Alt-E this,lying on the top. Now we will change her face’s edges by using Unsharp mask by going to Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask And here we use the default settings.

Step 5: Now change your blending mode on this layer to SOFT LIGHT to get clear the Uneven edges on pictures face.

Step 6: Now take a final step to finish your photo with effects .Now we will make a lighting effects in photo by going to Filter>Render>Lighting Effects And here you can adjust your light source on pictures face.

After applying these effects your photo will look like this photo.

I hope that after reading this tutorial you must learn something new.

February 24, 2011
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