Creating a simple Promo PhotographWha happens if you want a striking promo photograph of yourself or friend, bu you cant afford togo into a studio and pay a photograher? This tutorial takes you through te stps of an actual

promo photgraph that female impersonator Barbara Bush actually used for a publicity campaign. The orignal photo was taken by Wickedangel in his living room!

1. As always duplicate the original image. Now add an adjustment layer and paint out the back-ground.

2. ctrl/alt/shift/E to merge up, then using th spot healing brush clean up any spot, small wrinkles and tiny skin flaws to create an initial smoother skincanvas to work on.

3. There is a small bit of mostache shadow showing through the make-up. The easiest way to tone this down is to select the area using the lasoo tool with a feath-er radius of 15. Go to imgae /adjustments/hue and saturation. Now very gently nudge the light-ness up. Adjust the hue slightly if needed.

4. Copy the layer, and zoom in on the eyes. Go to image, adjust-ment, curves and bring out he colours and contorus in the iris. Now add an adjustment layer, in-vert it (Ctrl “I”), and using a white small brush paint, in the irises. Then ctrl / alt / shift and E rro merge up a layer ready for the next step.

Dupliacte your new merged up layer, and do a skin polishing layer like we did in previus tutorials, by adding a soft gaussian blur, folowed by adding noise. Add an adjustment layer, invert it (Ctrl “i”), and using a soft white brush, paint in the skin polish.

let’s add a really basic basic background. Create a new layer beneath the current levels you are using and fill with white

The final step and we’re done.

We are going to add a sligt over bleached effect to the image.

To do this, duplicate the top layer. and either desturate it (CS2 and earlier versions), or add a balck and white adjustment layer. Now in the layers blend window - change the blend mode to overlay.