Photoshop Creative Issue

Elements

Soften with Clarity

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While you are adjusting the hair, keep in mind that aged hair is

often very soft like cotton candy, and as such, needs to be

softened. Bring down the Clarity with a Local Adjustment to visually

soften the hair.

Open up the shadows

01

Inside Camera RAW, you can make use of a variety of sliders to

adjust the overall tone of your photo. In this case we are going

to lighten the Shadows, remembering to darken the Blacks as well.

Camera RAW filter Slider adjustments create the base for the effect

Adjust temperatures

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While you are adjusting the hair with a Local Adjustment, bring

down the Saturation. Then, opt for a Warm Temperature to

make the hair look more golden. This image will be your base for

compositing a new image on top, which we show you how to do below.

Enhance wrinkles

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Now mask the hair and then lighten it by opening up the

Shadows completely. You can also add a Local Adjustment of

Clarity on the skin to enhance the wrinkles further, around +20.

A cloning/healing

layer blends

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Take it further

Composite images Overlay a photo for optimal realism

Match skin colours

01

Once the base image is prepped,

do your best to choose an image of

an older woman that’s as similar to yours

as possible. Lay it over the top of your

photo, and match the skin colours between

the two female models as best as you can.

Resize accordingly

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Compositing an image is never

easy, so you need to painstakingly

adjust the two images together until they

blend seamlessly. You will need to resize,

scale, and distort the older woman’s photo

over yours so that they match better.

Adjust layer Opacity

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It is unlikely your two images will it

exactly. This means you may need

to work on multiple copies of the older

woman. Drop the old woman’s layer Opacity

to about 70%, blending mode of Darken

and blend with layer masks.