Adobe Photoshop Elements 8: Maximum Performance

Project 6

Glamor Portrait

Photograph by Jennifer Stephens

Use the Soft Focus action to achieve a lightning-fast makeover (minus the heal and liquify steps)

Cheaper (and more fun) than plastic surgery, we explore how pixel surgery can be used to craft perfect portraits that are bound to flatter the sitter every time.

The glamor portrait offers an excellent opportunity to test the effectiveness of a variety of image-editing skills. The portrait is an unforgiving canvas that will show any heavy-handed or poor technique that may be applied. we will ...