Retro Pin-Up

This tutorial is called "Get the Vintage Look." The point of this tutorial was to turn a modern photo into a vintage pin-up photo. Again we used Camera Raw to warm up the undertones of the original photo and conceal some of the smaller blemishes on the skin. Then I used the patch tool to get rid of blemishes and under eye bags, the spot healing brush tool to cover freckles and a high pass filter to smooth everything out. A surface blur was used to create a painted effect. I learned how to convert layers into a smart object and this merges all of the layers into a new layer, but still preserves the previous layers in case you need to go back. The next couple steps involved changing her eye color and adding some blush to her face and smoothing her skin out some more. Then a radial gradient was used to create a warm yellow-y background. Next, a textured background was added and then I changed the blend mode to multiply so it could blend in with the yellow background. The tutorial used the liquefy tool to make her waist smaller, but the tool did not seem to work at all no matter how many times I reread the directions and re-did the steps, so I ended up skipping this step.

My Pin-Up