Welcome to our second tutorial. A lot of fashion magazines are moving towards a pale look. This tut will show you how to take your photos and give them that high fashion look. This tutorial was written using Adobe Photoshop CS. If you're using a version that's different, please note that you may have to do some things differently.

First thing your going to want to do is open the photo that your going to work with. I'm going to use an image of a model I shot with named Jenna. If you're going to clean up the image (i.e. color correct, remove pimples, or other blemishes, do it now BEFORE doing going forward with this tut)

Step ONE: Create a duplicate of the background by pressing control+j (if using a mac, it's command + j)

Click each thumbnail to open a larger image

Next go the filter menu, then choose Distort. Under distort, choose "Diffuse Glow"

When the screen comes up, change the "Graininess" to 0 and set the glow amount to 10, clear amount to 15 and hit "OK" to apply these changes. This is what your image should now look like:

Lower the opacity of THIS layer to about 70-80%.

Step3: Add a new layer and change this layer blend mode's to "Luminosity" and lower the "Opacity" to 40-50%

Step4: Choose the history brush from the toolbox and trace over all the shadow areas, i.e. lips, eyes, nostrils, any place on the face that has shadow areas.*Don't worry if you can't see any changes, you will, trust me*

Go back to your various Layers and click on Layer 1. Lower the opacity of the history brush (Up at the top in the options bar) to 50-70%. Paint over just the eyes, eyebrows and lips.

FINAL STEP!!! Raise the history brush opacity back up to 100% and paint over the rest of the pic, the hair, shirt, everything except the skin and your done. Use a large brush so you can cover more area of the photo, just becareful to NOT get any of the skin or else you're back to the pic you started with! Here's the final version:

None of this is absolute. Play around with the numbers to get the effect you want. For example, if you go back to layer 1 and change the master opacity (the one located on the layer itself) you can increase the white effect by going highter +80 or take it away by using lower number. Personally, I like the lower number effect and stick with about 56%