Character Portrait - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 332

Sample an area of skin on the cheek. Option/Alt-click and paint over the shiny area
of the nose to remove it.
Note
Setting the Healing Brush mode to Darken means that the brush will mainly affect
areas brighter than that initially sampled.
9. For realism, we need to keep a small amount of the highlight in this area. We can
do that either by reducing the opacity of the layer to around 40% or by using the
Fade command in the Edit menu. In this case, I faded the healing we just applied
so that it was just 40% visible. This allowed some of the highlight to show through
( Figure 6.15 ) .
Figure 6.15
The next few steps use a plug-in called Detail, by Topaz Labs. I love the effect this
plug-in produces. You can get a 30-day free trial by visiting www.topazlabs.com/
store ; otherwise, skip to the following section.
10. Click the bottom layer in the Layers panel (the editor layer). Open the Detail plug-
in by choosing Filter > Topaz Labs > Topaz Detail.
11. Zoom to 100% view. Make slight adjustments to the Small Details, Small Details
Boost, and Medium Details sliders, as in Figure 6.16 . Click OK to apply the effect
and close the plug-in.