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17CHAPTER 1 • Portrait and Studio Effects
Trendy Fashion Blowout Look
This is probably the hottest trend in fashion portrait retouching right now, and you see it everywhere from CD covers
(like Madonna’s American Life), to print ads, to movie posters (like Jet Li’s movie Cradle 2 the Grave), and everything in between.
The effect you’re going for is one where the skin tone turns completely white, leaving subtle shadow areas to reveal just the eyes,
nostrils, lips, and outline of the face. Here’s the trick:
STEP ONE: Open the photo you want
to apply the effect to. This technique
works best on images with a very light
(or white) backgro ...