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The Liquify filter is the obvious choice to distort the shape
of the face, as it allows us to push and pull the outlines:
here, we’ve sagged the jaw line, thickened the nose slightly
and made the eyes a little more doleful.
A
DDING A FEW YEARS TO A FACE IS
an enjoyable process: you can keep
working on the image until you get exactly the
state of decrepitude you need. Graying up the
hair is an obvious starting point; but there are
other, more subtle indications of advancing
years. The most noticeable change is not so
much the hair or even the wrinkles, but the way
a face changes shape with advancing years.
The pair of illustrations seen in steps 5 and
6 was a commission for People magazine, who
wanted to show the effects of age on a young
model. The original photograph, above, was the
starting point; to make the difference between
young and old more pronounced, I made the
starting image more youthful, as we’ll see in the
final step.
IMAGE: STOCKBYTE
The ageing process
4
We need to remove some of that healthy glow from
the skin. The simplest method is to make a new Hue/
Saturation Adjustment layer and lower the saturation: paint
out the areas where you don’t want it applied on the mask.
8
Heads and bodies
SHORTCUTS
MAC WIN BOTH
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To make the hair more gray, first make a new layer and
set its mode to Color. Now, using a soft-edged brush,
paint in either black or white (it makes no difference) to knock
the color out of the hair.
6
To make the difference between the before and after
images clearer, I made the original photo a little more
youthful. Using the Healing Tool to sample clear areas of skin,
it was easy to paint out the mouth lines and eye bags.
HOT TIP
The techniques
shown here apply
equally to ageing
pictures of men
and women. But
when working
with male faces,
it’s a good idea to
add some stubble
as well, as this
really completes
the effect. Use
the technique
described in
Beards and
Stubble, on page
224.
3
Make another new layer, set to Hard Light mode. With a
low opacity brush, sample colors from the darker parts of
the face and build up shadows around the cheeks and under
the eyes, and paint in darker lines around the mouth.
5
We could have stopped at the previous stage, but the
client wanted a more pronounced effect. So we can
continue to accentuate the lines in the neck and the bags –
again, painting on a Hard Light layer.
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