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Some
time ago, we were already dealing with this photo. Its owner
asked us to remove spots and wrinkles from the face. We
did this, except for the more important mimic wrinkles like
the small groove at the corner of the mouth, invoked by
the smile. These have serious impact on a face, are not
to be avoided at any cost, since their removal can easily
alter the whole character of the face, or cause some harder
characteristics to be brought to the surface.
Now let's try how this works and remove those mimic wrinkles.
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The picture above is the untouched original. You can see
that the chin bone is quite characteristic. However, the
grooves around the mouth counter its emphasis as they make
the face look slightly thinner. Removing them means you
have to measure two things. A fully smoothed face will make
the model look like as if inflated with air, so it has to
be avoided. Even if you remove the wrinkles, preserve the
original shape of the face. Leave the shadows intact as
the smooth skin surface will make the model look rounder.
Of course you can fiddle around in Photoshop to remove this
effect afterwards, but why bother if you can preserve the
character more easily? The other thing you have to keep
in mind is that the chin bone will become more prominent.
Due to a wide smile or a hung head, the bone can be already
more emphatic than in real life. This can be corrected afterwards
as well. Basically, this is what today's article is about.
Remove the wrinkles as described in the previous
article, using Healing Brush (press
J).
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To
weaken the chin bone, use Photoshop's plastic
surgery tool, Liquify, available in the
Filter menu. The appearing dialog contains
a whole new toolbar, from which, we'll primarily use the
first two buttons. To modify the chin, we selected the first
one, Forward Warp Tool (press W).
It is important to use the zoom menu at the bottom before
making any changes, as you can work much more accurately
with a zoomed image. Fortunately, the preview image on the
Liquify dialog is large enough.
Specify brush size and other properties under Tool
Options. Look at Brush Size first.
We tried to select a large brush, as wide as the chin. This
way this facial area can be altered in just one click. Brush
Density controls effect intensity. By low values,
you have to go through the same area multiple times and
blur the image to a greater deal. We needed a definite alteration
instead, so we used 100%. Brush
Pressure is the strength of the imaginary brush
stroke. If you set a low value and drag the brush, its effect
gradually fades after a time, as if you dipped it into paint
which ran out. Of course, there's no paint here, Liquify
resembles clay sculpting more than painting. The value we
set here was also 100%.
The Reconstruct Tool under the Forward
Warp Tool also deserves mentioning: it enables
you to revert the areas painted with it to their original
state.
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As I told before, imagine Liquify as clay
sculpting. The face in the picture is a soft clay statue
that can be shaped, stretched and narrowed easily.
We wanted to get rid of the areas marked with red on both
sides by clicking with the midpoint of our 181-pixel
wide brush on the prominent corners of the chin bone and
dragging a bit inwards while holding the left mouse button
pressed. The face already became narrower.
If you don't succeed at the first try, use the Reconstruct
tool to restore the original face and try again.
It is very important not to go too far. Liquify
itself is something of an extreme, as it interferes with
forms created by nature, but under no circumstances do we
want the face to be altered beyond recognition, as that
belongs more to the world of caricatures. (By the way, Liquify
is a great tool for making caricatures, if that is your
aim).
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We're done with the picture. We recommend the first version
to those who want to retain the natural feel of the face
and only want to get rid of annoying defects.
We tried to interfere with the chin bone very slightly,
in order to not affect the character too strongly. We hope
we were successful.
But from now, only your imagination can limit your mouse
and Photoshop. And as we know, imagination
knows no bounds.
Hope you can
learn something new from this tutorial.
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