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hi guys it's Meg with color me pretty
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and today we are going to be looking at
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a few of our brush collections perfect
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portrait eyes and skin smoothing brushes
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which is in our perfect skin collection
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and so we had this portrait of my
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husband's cousins little girl and she is
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absolutely gorgeous but let's be honest
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this picture it can use a little bit of
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help just to make it really pop and make
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her mama love it even more so let's
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start by first we're just going to add a
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preset which is in our classic
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collection which is the sweet colored
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classic and that's just gonna give us a
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nice little base to start with
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then after that we are going to come in
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and just add a couple little filters
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we're really quick just to also just
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really help bring this portrait to life
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and remember every time you're switching
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between brushes and presets adding more
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and more and make sure you're always
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clicking new so that you're not
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adjusting the one you've already placed
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their face and her eyes are super dark
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she has naturally dark eyes but we
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really want to bring those out because
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again the eyes that just create such a
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motion in the image and they're just a
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beautiful window to our soul that the
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Lord has given us to be expressive with
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and so let's grab our brain eyes brush
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and just going to do I like when I when
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the eyes are this dark to do them
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individually so that I have control over
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both of them because generally with the
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light coming in from one direction or
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always darker and the other and you
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really want to get them both properly
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exposed and overexposed one just to
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bring up the other one so it's more
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visible so let's jump back I always like
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to jump back and make sure that my eyes
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that I don't have them too bright and
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those might be just a little bit too
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bright for her we want it to look
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natural but he's still just want to be
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able to see that little bit of
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definition in her eyes all right that's
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we're gonna hop back in there again and
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we are going to use the eye weights
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brush just to go around her eyes just to
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bring that up just a little bit so her
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eyes are nice and crisp and clear
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and then she already has a really strong
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catch like it's in her eyes so we're not
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going to use the catch lights in this
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portrait example and we're gonna back up
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just a little bit and her skin she has
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really nice skin but again we're just
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going to do this getting new skin
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smoothing sorry and brush and just go
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over her face and again we want to avoid
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the details like her eyebrows eyelashes
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eyes tip over nose that kind of thing
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and her of course her lips and then
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we'll go back we'll take our eraser just
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to make sure that we didn't get any of
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now her skin being Lynch it was winter
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out when we took this picture so she's
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definitely a little bit on the cold side
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so we're gonna use this skin smoothing
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first Watchi skin and it's just gonna
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add a little bit of color back in there
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but we are going to bring it back down
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we're not gonna let it brighten up that
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much and we're gonna take that color
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saturation down just a touch - and then
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we're gonna come back in one more time
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and your skin recover a red and that
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sorry I didn't click new on my brush
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before I started just like I told you
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all to do do as I say not as I do and
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we're gonna go over those little areas
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that are just a little more red see that
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really just helps bring that bring that
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down just a little bit I don't even
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think we'll go over her lips right here
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we're gonna erase that back off just a
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little bit there so it's not such a
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harsh definition and I think come back
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in with the blush brush and we will
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touch her lips up for her there give her
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a little bit more color now I realize
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that this color is way not appropriate
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we will tone it down and make it much
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more natural in just a moment here we
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even it dark like that while you're
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putting it on just helps you see your
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lines and where you're going with it and
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then we're going to bring that color
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down just a touch we're gonna bring all
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of our eraser down we're just gonna do
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the corners a little bit and just
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just to really soften it I'm gonna jump
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back out and have a little look-see just
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don't think it's just a touch alright so
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we'll go back in there one more time
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maybe just add a little bit more back
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now one last touch that will do just
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because I like to do it in all my
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portraits is to add my detail brush and
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it just really makes everything pop you
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don't need to do it over their entire
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skin or anything like that
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but it just really brings out those
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details another thing there's a lot of
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detail lost in her hair so we're going
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to use a brush that I haven't mentioned
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in any of my other videos and it's
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called Brighton white light and it just
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helps bring those details back in this
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brush I like to do separates so that I
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can control it a little better because
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like right here it's super dark
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I'm gonna bring that in just a little
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what do you think of that absolutely
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matter of just a few short minutes we're
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going to be able to take this image from
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this to this absolutely stunning and her
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mama loved it so thanks for listening
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and have a blessed day
