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Lana Rhoades - this is the original image that I used to make the flame image just after this one.

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Lana Rhoades behind a flame...

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All I did with this image of Lana Rhoades is give it a "wet look." She's in a bathroom, so I wanted it to look as though she was being photographed through a shower door.

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The original is on the right-hand side. I gave this a psychedelic look as the background, and I brought out all the colors of the image.

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One of the most difficult things to do in Photoshop (now it's getting easier and easier with AI technology built-in) is to recolor hair. I developed a perfect technique, you can't see any flaws.

I also generally remove all eyelashes, unless the make-up artist was really good, and paint in my own, to give the eyes a more alive look.

I hope you like it.

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This was a no-brainer retouch I received from the photographer. I have no idea where it was to be used. I just basically had to clean it up and I have the image some warmth by adding a yellow color cast over the whole image and a bit of blue into the shadows (can't forget color theory and complimentary colors, can we?).

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Here is a retouch I did for some ads for these swim caps...

I worked a lot on the shape of her face and readjusted the nose so that it didn't have that large-ish bulbous area on the end of it.

I also got rid of a small protrusion/ bump above her left eyebrow, cleared up the whites of her eyes (known as the sclera), added a bit more blue to her iris and did a few other things to her lips and skin.

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Do you know the meaning of the word "Namastre"? The magic of connection: 'I honor the place in you where your entire universe resides. I honor the place in you of love, of truth, of peace, and of light. And when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.'

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Accept one thing - you'll find the time if you're motivated to do something. If you're not motivated (and we usually don't like to admit that to ourselves), you won't find the time... ever.

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You can learn anything online now, at low, low prices. You just need passion/ motivation and determination to get really good. So, discipline and consistency are important.

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If you want to know something that will blow your mind, maybe... All humans are seeking that feeling of being in the womb again…

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I made a logo today: LR.

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I had to do a cover for a magazine for a photographer. He sent me two images of the man who was to be on the cover and I had to combine them into one.

There is a kind of optical illusion I've made here. You can look at this image from the profile view and the front view, and see both views, but not simultaneously.

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I used a very special technique in Photoshop to change the colorful roses into a black-and-white image, trying to retain as much detail as possible.

Ordinarily, the easiest solution is simply converting the image into Grayscale Mode. All RGB images have red, green, and blue channels, respectively. However, that method uses a combination of the three color channels in the following way automatically: the Red channel contributes 30% of its information to the Grayscale image; the Green channel contributes the most at 59% of its information to the Grayscale image and the Blue channel supplies the least amount of information at 11%.

That's good because digital noise and artifacts hide in the blue channel, especially in shadowy areas, so very little information from this channel is used when making an automatic grayscale conversion. However, we can do better by discarding the blue channel altogether from the grayscale conversion process and leaving the noise and artifacts behind.

Most, if not all times, the automatic tools in Photoshop are never better than understanding fully how image processing works and using your own techniques to get much better results.

In this image, I used what's called Calculations and only combined the Red and Green channels, leaving the blue out completely. Who needs the bad stuff the blue holds?

When I put the red into the green channel, the darker areas kept detail, but the lighter areas lost detail. So, I again used Calculations, and after combining the Red and Green channels, I added the Red channel in Lighten Mode to add detail back into the lighter areas.

The lighter parts in the Red channel were lighter than in the Green channel, so I knew that the Red channel’s lightness would take precedence over the darker Green channel. On the other hand, the red channel was darker than the green channel, where the green leaf was at the bottom, and since I like the detail in that area, the Lighten blend mode would leave it untouched - that’s why I used the Lighten blend mode.

So, I was using the Lighten blend mode to mask the dark areas of the image that I did not want to adjust. (Or clip the dark area away from the light areas, which I wanted to adjust; it’s another word for isolating an area to affect it - similar but not identical to isolation mode in Illustrator.)

I've heard that Blend modes exist in Illustrator. I haven’t tried them yet, but I’m sure they use the same mathematical algorithm as Photoshop.

Whala - it’s the best of both worlds.

This technique kept the detail in the darker areas while also bumping up the detail in the lighter areas, which would not have been possible to the same extent if I had kept the blue channel as in the Photoshop automatic conversion to Grayscale Mode.

Even if you got a 1% shot, with a technique you know to make an image better than the automatic processes supplied by Photoshop, use it. Those 1% improvements add up in the end to make the best possible overall image.

This shows the automatic systems you can use in Photoshop are not always the best.

This came out as a nice black-and-white image full of detail, and that's what you want.

Now, let me see if I know enough about Illustrator to make something similar using vector shapes… This is going to be challenging for me….

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