In this tutorial we're going to go over some of the makeover tools and other
blemish fixing tools in PaintShop Pro. These are great tools for making
quick fixes to faces in your photos. We're going to use a couple of the
makeover tools: Blemish Fixer and Toothbrush, and also look at another tool
called Scratch Remover which is part of the Clone tool group. At the end for some
overall touch-ups we'll also look at the Skin Smoothing tool. I've got PaintShop
Pro open and I'm in the Manage workspace. Over here I'm going to browse to where I
have the image that I want to touch up. I can double-click the thumbnail for a
larger view to more easily see what I'd like to work on, then back in the
thumbnail view I can right-click and choose Edit Photo. Now the Edit workspace
becomes active, which is where we'll find all the tools we'll need. The makeover
tools are under the Red Eye tool but clicking this drop-down arrow brings up
a flyout and the makeover tool is here. The makeover tool options appear up here
on the interactive property bar. There are five makeover tools: Blemish Fixer,
Toothbrush, Eye Drop, Suntan and Thinify. First i want to duplicate the image on
which I'll make my edits. This way there won't be any changes made to the
original image. Down here in the Layers palette I'm right-clicking on the image
and choosing Duplicate. This creates a new identical layer placed just above
the original. I'm clicking on the layer name and changing it to "makeover".
Here's what i want to fix first: a little blemish on the end of her nose. I'm
zooming in for a closer look by scrolling my mouse wheel. I can also pan
the view by pressing the spacebar while dragging the mouse. I'm clicking the
Blemish Fixer icon the first one in the Makeover toolbar. I can adjust my brush size
here, but it's easier to change the brush size by dragging the mouse up or down
while holding the Alt key. Blemish Fixer works like a specialized clone tool. The
cursor has two circles: inner and outer. I'm placing the smaller circle over the
blemish. The outer circle contains the colors and
textures that will be used to cover the blemish.
I want to size my brush so that the entire blemish fits just inside the
inner circle. Click once and the blemish is gone. I'll do the same thing to remove
this little freckle here, but first I'll zoom in some more and use
a smaller brush so that just the freckle fits inside. I'll do the same for a few
little blemishes on this side as well
and up here on her forehead.
Next let's try the Toothbrush tool. There aren't a lot of teeth showing in this
picture so I'll zoom in to get the best view. This is another one-click tool. I
just click on the teeth and the Toothbrush does the rest. You may have to
click more than once to lighten all the various shades within the teeth. I was
using the default lightening strength of 50 which makes the teeth a little too
white in my opinion so I'm using undo to get the original teeth back. I'm reducing
the strength a bit then trying again. I like these teeth better
Next we'll use the Scratch Remover. This is a great tool for removing scratches
from old or damaged photographs but it has lots of other uses such as removing
power lines from landscape shots or erasing stray hairs on a photograph.
That's what I'm going to do here. If i zoom in closely here I can see an
awkward little stray hair. Scratch Remover is here under the Clone tool and
it works a bit like the blemish remover. I'm reducing the width a bit - it's best
to make the tool size as small as possible to avoid affecting other areas.
I'm dragging this rectangle along the straight part at the end of the hair. The
colors and textures from the two outer rectangles are brought into the middle
rectangle, removing the hair. I can drag a few more times removing another bit of
hair each time.
This tool is also great for removing wrinkles like these around the eyes,
and for plucking eyebrows.
This area around the chin shows some slight blotchiness and maybe we also
want to remove some of the larger pores in this area. These bits could be evened
out with the Blemish Fixer but there's another tool that makes this even easier.
I'm choosing Adjust > Skin Smoothing. The skin smoothing preview window shows a
before-and-after view and you can zoom and pan on either image. The after view
around the nose now shows smaller pores and the chin is now smoother as well.
But I can increase the smoothing amount here. If I click Preview on Image I can see
the entire effect of this tool in real time. Click OK and the changes are made.
Because all of these tools were used on their own layer I can easily compare the
new image to the original one. By clicking the eye icon on the makeover
layer I can toggle it off, leaving only the original layer displayed. Quite a
difference. This brings us to the end of this short tutorial. In addition to the
makeover tools I demonstrated here, there are many other tools you can use to
touch up or enhance your images.. Some of these are selective focus, depth-of-field,
glamour filters and the ability to change the colors of eyes hairs or lips
just to name a few. To see these in action check out Corel's Discovery Center at learn.corel.com.