As part of my series of basic portrait retouching techniques, I want to give you some options on whitening teeth—Photoshop options, that is. I’m not here to sell you white strips or bleaching trays. In fact, I don’t want photos that end up with fluorescent blue/white Regis Philbin teeth, just something realistic and a little less yellow Introduction

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Fantasy art is a genre all of its own: just like any other art form, it has its own rules and conventions. Slick, polished finishes are central to fantasy art. To achieve these slick finishes, you’ll need razor-sharp compositing skills and a neat way with colour – you’re aiming for something that looks as though it could be real, but that nonetheless has a faraway, dreamlike feel.

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A true meaning to the term “eye candy”. This tutorial will show you how to add colors and patterns to your eyes giving the look as if you were wearing colored contact lenses.

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This tutorial will show you how to create your own glorious siren, reflecting the beauty and vigor of the beast, and bringing it firmly into the present digital age.

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Duplicate the layer.
Select the upper layer, and go to Hues / Saturation and reduce the colours of the upper layer fully.

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The first thing we need to do before we darken any edges is create a copy of our photo so that we don’t damage our original pixel information. If we look in our Layers palette, we can see our photo sitting comfortably on the Background layer

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