Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, covering Photoshop CS3

Chapter 14

Ageing Effects

There is no way around it, our culture is obsessed with age and beauty. We are bombarded with advertisements and television commercials filled with young, beautiful people, and are trained to think that age is unattractive. However, if you can snap yourself out of this media-influenced tunnel vision and objectively look at the face of an older person there is a certain majestic beauty to it. Wrinkles accentuate features, hair turns gray, and a sense of wisdom tends to come across. There is a certain beauty in the ageing process that far too many people ignore.

Any photographer who has worked in advertising or ...