Nikki Chau » clone tool http://www.nikkichau.com "and if, in this wide world, I come to die, then it’s certain to be from sheer joy that I live." - Yevgeny Yevtushenko Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:37:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Photoshop is Ruining my Life! http://www.nikkichau.com/2010/01/23/photoshop-is-ruining-my-life/ http://www.nikkichau.com/2010/01/23/photoshop-is-ruining-my-life/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:34:55 +0000 Nikki Chau http://www.nikkichau.com/?p=138 Continue reading →]]> This is what a friend of my told me when we were in college. He was in the Art School studying Visual Design, and he said that he can’t look at Maxim or any of those skin magazines the same way anymore. “All I see is Photoshop retouching!”, he’d exclaim.

And oh, yes, I do know what he means.

Here’s before

A small child with a rock, and a couple scratches

A small child with a rock, and a couple scratches

Here’s after a couple strokes of the healing brush:

Okay, now there's a face a mother could love, right?

Okay, now there's a face a mother could love, right?

I used a couple things to retouch the image:
Clone Stamp, Healing Brush, Dodge, Patch, and Burn tools.

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