Create a more consistent background, develop a cleanup process for flyaways from hair and wardrobe with the spot healing brush.
An artistic approach to skin cleanup focusing on character and emotion, utilizing spot healing, patch, and clone tools.
Use the Frequency Separation action with the clone stamp tool to create a surreal skin aesthetic.
Moving to the second image of the series - Bluebird - use Dodge and Burn to accentuate the shadows and highlights of the image. Create more dimension and emotion to the work. Push the character further into an artistic rendering with painting to accentuate the makeup and achieve a painterly aesth...