> PHOTOSHOP USER>^ JUNE 2017[ 58 ]
The first thing to do with
any beauty image, especially
macro images, is clean up the
image. My beauty retouching
work flow typically involves
skin smoothing, frequency
separation, and correcting
the skin tone. For this specific
image, it also including touch-
ing up the golden lip color.BLEND MODE MAGIC
KRISTINASHERK
Retouching Magic
Layer blend modes are a great way to experiment with your images to get tons of different effects in
a nondestructive way. The featured image below, which is on my website’s home screen, periodically
prompts conversations about the process I used to create the rainbow effect on the lips. Since it’s been
a while since I created that image, I decided to jump back into the file and rediscover the steps I took
to create this look.