This tutorial will teach you how you can easily apply eyeshadow to anyone in few simple steps. Go ahead, get ready.. fireup Photoshop and open the picture you want to apply blush to. For this tutorial, you can use the below picture.

Step 1: First thing you want to do is create a new empty layer from the layers menu.

Step 2: Now, from the Tools menu, change the foreground color to a color you would like to apply as the eyeshadow. For this tutorial, I have selected the color #2790aa. Keep in mind
that this new color will smoothly blend in with the skin therefore the color you select will be creating an unique blend with texture so there will be variation of shade which also depends on the actual skin tone.
Through some experiment with different shade of colors, you will achieve to your desired color of eyeshadow.

Step 3: Select the brush tool from the Tools menu.

Step 4: Right click over your image and a popup dialogue will appear that look like this:

From this dialogue menu, scroll half way through and select a brush size from the Soft Mechanical portion (bottom half of the list). I have selected the size 35 pixel
so I can easily go over the eyeshadow area once and create the eyeshadow. Now,
go ahead and carefully draw in the eyeshadow as if drawing them in a real face, if you are using the image above, then I suggest a simple one click and dragging the brush from left to right will do the job well.
If your picture is somewhat large or very high resolution image, consider using higher brush size and repeating the procedure more than once, meaning going left to right several times to create a smoother eyeshadow.
Its okay if it gets a bit messy! We’ll clean all that excess amount later. Here is how mine looks like:

Step 5: Let’s add some texture to our eyeshadow:

Go to FILTER -> BLUR -> MOTION BLUR, on the popup menu, set the Angle to -90, distance to 20pixels (or more if you have high resolution image.. make sure to look at the preview
otherwise you might create excessive amount of blurness. Now go back to FILTER -> BLUR -> BLUR (just once) to add a small amount blur you’ll barely notice it but it helps.


Let’s create the actual texture now using the Noise filter. Go to FILTER -> NOISE -> ADD NOISE.

Amount 4% (also try 2%) and set to Gaussian. Here is how mine looks like with blur and noise added.

Step 6: Now from your layers menu, change the blending mode to “Vivid Light” with 70% Opacity level. You can try other blending option but this works the best if you want to preserve the texture of the eyeshadow.

Here is how mine looks like with all step completed…

Step 7: If you have excess color that leaked outside of the area, then you can use the eraser tool
to erase the excess but make sure you use the Soft Mechanical with smaller pixel size
around 10px or more and carefully start from furthest and work your way to closer areas.

Step 1: First thing you want to do is create a new empty layer from the layers menu.

Step 2: Now, from the Tools menu, change the foreground color to a color you would like to apply as the blush. For this tutorial, I have selected the color #f0297e. Keep in mind
that this new color will smoothly blend in with the face therefore the color you select will be creating an unique blend so there will be variation of shade.
Through some experiment with different shade of colors, you will achieve to your desire shade.

Step 3: Select the brush tool from the Tools menu.

Step 4: Right click over your image and a popup dialogue will appear that look like this:

From this dialogue menu, scroll half way through and select a brush size from the Soft Mechanical portion (bottom half of the list). I have selected the size 60 pixel so I can cover the cheeks faster. Now,
go ahead and carefully paint only over the cheeks, if you are using the image above, then I suggest a simple one click will do the job well, if your picture is somewhat large or very high resolution image, consider using higher brush size and clicking over the cheeks
more than once to cover properly. Its okay if it gets a bit messy! We’ll clean all that excess amount later. Here is how mine looks like:

Step 5: Now from your layers menu, change the blending mode to “Darken”. It depends mostly on what color you choose during step 2 but mostly “Darken” works the best. If “Darken” does not work well, then you may
select another blending mode and play around with opacity until your desired level of contrast is gained. Now set the opacity level to 20%, if you are using the above picture and color, this setting works best and gives the natural look.

Once “Darken” with 20% opcacity, here is how it should look:

Step 6: If you do not like how it looks or if you have excess color that leaked outside of the cheeks, then you can use the eraser tool to erase the excess but make sure you use the Soft Mechanical with large pixel size
around 40px or more and carefully start from furthest and work your way to closer areas

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This tutorial will teach you how you can quickly and effectively modify an image where too much makeup’s were applied making the skin look fake. Makeup always not the case,
the picture can be a magazine scan creating excessive noise on the picture. You can also do this to an old photographs that was scanned. Basically to any picture that has excessive amount of noise.
Using this quick dirty secret, you can make your models look glamour’s in no time! For this tutorial purpose, we will use this photograph of Indian celebrity, Riya Sen, that I found on the net. You can
save this picture and open with photoshop to follow through the tutorial.

Step 1: I’ll assume you already have selected your models picture, using the above picture or the picture you would like to enhance. Now, look over at your layers menu, right click over your image layer and select “Duplicate Layer”.
It should look something like this:

Step 2: Make sure your new duplicated layer is selected on the layers menu then from the top menu, go to FILTER -> NOISE -> REDUCE NOISE.

Step 3: You’ll get a popup dialogue box with many options and sample of your picture on the left. The menu on the right would look like the screen below. Strength is how powerful the noise reduction will be, I have set this to maximum.
In your case, it may not be necessary so make sure you slide it left and right until the preview looks like the kind of skin you want for your picture.
I set the ‘Preserve Details’ to 1% as at this point I do not care how much details are being shown, my only concern is that I want the skin to look really good and smooth. Set the other two option to zero as we do not need them.



Once the REDUCE NOISE filter is applied on the top duplicated layer, your picture would look something like this..

Notice that noise is removed from all part of the image including the lips, eyes and hair.. thus making the picture look as if it has been photoshoped.

Step 4: Remember, you have our original picture intact on the bottom of this layer. At this point our goal is to bring the original eyes, hair and lips back as if they
were vivid and not blurry photoshoped version. From the Navigator menu, select the Eraser tool.

Step 5: Now, right click anywhere in the picture and you will get this popup menu.


You’ll see many different brush size, the first half set of brushes are regular brushes which we will not use. The second half set of brushes are smooth edge like spray painting like brushes. For my image
I’ve selected Soft Mechanical 9 Pixel size. You can see it more clearly in the above dialogue box. The purpose here is to carefully erase the eyeballs, eyebrows, lips and hair. As you erase them
in this layer, you’ll notice the original version is coming out replacing the newer one. This way it looks more authentic and real. Go ahead and carefully finish up erasing only inside of the eyes and other
element you would like to keep as authentic. If the model have any jewelry, it is strongly suggested you erase them as well as any other details you want to preserve from the original keeping the skin intact.
Once you are finished, it should look something like this: