into glamorous portraits by adding a variety of sexy, skin glows you often see in fashion

magazines, posters and record album covers. Open a photo you'd like to use. I downloaded

this one from Shutterstock.com. The first thing we should do is to convert your image

into a Smart Object, so any effects we give it will be non-destructive. Click the icon

at the top, right corner of the Layers panel and choose "Convert to Smart Object".

I'll show you the fastest and simplest way to give it a glamorous, skin glow. Make a

copy of it by pressing Ctrl + J on Windows or Cmd + J on a Mac.

Go to Filter and Filter Gallery. Open the Distort folder and click Difuse Glow.

We won't add any graininess because we want to keep our image as smooth as possible. The Glow amount controls how bright the glow

and the Clear amount determines how much of the image is covered by the glow.

For this particular image, I'll set the glow at 1 and the Clear at 6. Keep in mind, depending on

the size, resolution and characteristics of your photo, you should experiment with these

amounts until you get just the right combination that looks good to you. Then, click OK. Click

Click the Adjustment layer icon and choose "Vibrance". Click the "Clip-to-Layer" icon which clips

or restricts the adjustment layer to effect only the one layer beneath it in the Layers

panel. Slide the Vibance all the way to the right. As you can see when I toggle back and forth, we now added a soft, skin glow to our

image and we did it with just one adjustment layer and one filter. Now, I'll show you some

other ways to achieve beautiful, glamorous effects, but this time, with a bit more complexity.

First, let's group the last effect into its own folder. To do this, Shift-click on the

thumbnail of the middle layer to highlight it and press Ctrl or Cmd + G. Click off the

eyeball next to the folder to hide it. Click Layer 0 to make it active and make a copy of it.

Change the Blend Mode to Overlay. Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Reduce

the view until you can see most of the face. Adjust the Radius amount, so you can barely

make out the eyes, nose and mouth. Then, click OK. Hide the layer and make the bottom layer

active. We want to make a selection just around the skin. To do this, go to Select and Color

Range. Make sure Selection is ticked. If you're working on CS5 or earlier, choose Sampled

Colors and adjust the Fuzziness until you see that most of the skin is selected with

as little of the rest of the image showing. Then, click OK. If you're working on CS6 or

later, choose Skin Tones. Photoshop automatically finds the skin and adjusts the color range

to get the best selection. Then, click OK. Press "Q" to make the selection into a quickmask.

Open your Brush Tool and choose a medium-sized brush and a Hardness of 0%. Make sure the

Opacity and Flow are 100% each. Now, paint over areas that aren't part of the skin.

To remove areas of the quickmask, make the foreground color white by pressing "x"

on your keyboard or by clicking this icon. Now, brush over areas of the skin that the

quickmask covered, as well as the lips. To enlarge or reduce the size of the brush, press

the the right or left bracket keys. Now, brush over those areas.

To paint back in areas, press "x" again to make the foreground color black. Make sure you have the eyes and eyebrows filled in.

When you're done, press "Q" again to revert the quickmask back into a selection. Make the middle layer visible and active.

Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the active layer.

As I turn the layer mask off and on, you can see the difference. Next, we'll make the eye

color more attention-getting. First, make a composite snapshot of your image by pressing

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E on Windows or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac. Then, make a

copy of it. Make sure black is your foreground color and click on the quickmask icon, so

we can brush in a quickmask. Now carefully brush over just the irises.

Press "Q" to make it into selections and then click the Layer mask icon to make a layer mask of the selections.

Invert the layer mask by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I. Click the photo to make it active

and click the Adjustment layer icon. Choose Vibrance

and click the clip-to-layer icon to restrict the adjustment layer to just the irises. Slide the Vibrance and Saturation all the way to the right.

The last effect can be achieved simply by adding a filter that we used earlier. First, make another composite snapshot

and go to Filter, and Filter Gallery. Use Diffuse Glow again with same settings you used earlier.

To intensify the effect, press Ctrl or Cmd + F to repeat the last filter.

Have fun transforming regular photos into glamorous, sexy portraits.

This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!