Increased Photoshop Skill

I see myself as a basic Photoshop user, I don't yet know how to use Photoshop to it's full potential, the skills I acquire are not enough to make the most out of what is offered to me so to increase my Photoshop skills I've been watching YouTube videos on how to do certain things and reading online tutorials, this has helped me to gain a wider knowledge of the different things that Photoshop offers.

I've always struggled to manipulate model images in a professional way, I'm used to following my own rules rather than the correct rules and it often ends up looking 'shabby' and 'unprofessional' so I looked online and found a tutorial which has taught me how to do lots of things I never knew how to do before, I'm going to try them out and see if they're beneficial skills to know for the future. http://sixrevisions.com/photoshop/26-professional-photoshop-retouching-tutorials/

The photo below is an image of my which my peer Ana Cunha took of me when doing a photo shoot on Mac make-up. I'll be using this image to manipulate using the techniques I learn from the online tutorial.

I followed some of the steps in the tutorial and realised it wasn't for me, I wasn't keep on the techniques yet I tried to follow them and I produced this:

I did learn some new things with that tutorial although I need to work on my execution! I learn a quick way to smooth out the skin as opposed to going over the whole thing in small clicks with the 'Healing Brush Tool' and I now know how to soften the colour when adding it to something such as my hair.