This is a picture I took of my daughter about a year ago. Isn't she adorable? She is so gung-ho about everything. Notice the typical dirt on her hands and face.
Here I have Photoshopped the photo. This is what I did:
- Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlights and played with the setting until the shadows look less dark, but the picture still looks natural.
- Selected the center of the object using the Elliptical Marquee Tool (round selection tool) from the toolbar. I made my shape an oval.
- Pressed Q while the center is still selected. This applies a Quick Mask.
- Chose Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to soften the edges of the Quick Mask area.
- Pressed Q again to undo the Quick Mask.
- I then did one of my favorite Photoshop options, which is CTRL-SHIFT-I, which selects the everything that you don't have selected. This can also be done by going to Select > Inverse.
- Chose Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. In the options box I selected Zoom for my Blur Method, 20 for my Amount, and Best for my Quality. I would play with those options and see how they look with the image.
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