How to Airbrush like a Professional

Goal:
We'll improve a picture digitally, airbrushing using a typical photo manipulation interface. From this practice you'll learn basic skills for image manipulation.
Class requirements:

1. Basic understanding of windows point and click.
2. Pain.net installed.
3. A picture you want to improve manually.

The following guide is courtesy of Lindsay Korsen from the Paint.net forums where you can learn even more and post what you have done.

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By popular demand, (and explicit force) I will download the whole tutorial here...step by step.

Only because I love paint.net and this community so much, and I have been a guilty lurker for so long.

So basically this tutorial will let you edit photos of people in high quality. The example photo is a pretty low quality, but the same process applies for all pictures.

For example, you can go from this picture:



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using the same process.

Oh, and P.S. before you start insulting the model, it's me.


Start up your Paint.net program, pick a picture, and get ready to learn!

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Have fun with this. I edit EVERY good picture I find. It's addicting.

Post your creations! I'd love to see them!