Editing Portraits and Recomposing Images - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 184

Figure 8-1. Take some time to determine your course of action

Tutorial29: Portrait Retouch
In the image you are about to retouch, the key is to reduce the severity of the facial issues (seen in Figure 8-1 )
but not to completely eliminate them, to prevent looking like plastic surgery was performed.
The Wavelets Decompose plugin must be installed to follow this tutorial.
To edit this image, follow these steps:

Open the image ( Ch8_retouch portrait ) located in the Practice Images folder.
Duplicate the background layer and rename it Retouch Layer .

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2. Create a new layer (Shift + Control + N) and name it Shadow/lFlyaway Hair

Removal (Figure 8-2 ).