How do you remove makeup on photoshop?

Answer 1

Take a damp washcloth and wipe the screen. I usually have the opposite problem--customers wanting me to use Photo shop to put makeup on someone. "Oh, she didn't wear any lipstick, can you put some on her?" Well...yeah, sure I can for $120 an hour (that's what we get for design work--I don't see most of it, but that's okay, I make plenty of money anyway) but it really needs to go on the subject before the camera clicks because the finished piece looks better--and you can buy a lot of lipstick for my $30 minimum. Last week I had a picture come in that needed some makeup removal, and here's what I did: The Eyes: Too much eyeliner, more shadow on one eye than the other, the wrong shade of eyeshadow for her face, and this weird line right under the brow bone on one of her eyes--like someone accidentally dragged the tip of a sponge applicator across her face. I did a selective color correction to fix the shade, used the cloning tool to get rid of the line, and used the sponge tool to soften the liner. She also had major dark circles under her eyes, and I used the sponge and the clone tools to get rid of them. The Cheeks: Bad color and heavy application strike again. The sponge lifted most of it off. The Lips: Would you believe purple? Selective color correction turned it into a pleasant wine color. The Forehead: I couldn't believe it: she was wearing a ton of makeup, but her forehead was shiny. You can tone this down with a selective color correction on the shiny spots, and a lot of feathering to bring her face and the corrected areas together. It took me two hours to do all this work in the computer. It would have taken thirty minutes to do all of it in a makeup chair. You can tone down a badly-thought-out face, but you really can't remove all the makeup from one--especially if it's a child.