With this mask we can begin to understand face anatomy and make focused changes that will actually benefit our images. This can easily lead to unrealistic results that don't make the face any more pleasing then before we started. Many people will simply go ahead and slim the face without any regard for proportion. The face anatomy mask provided here can serve as a guideline to help you visualize the changes you need to make with the liquify tool in order to achieve a pleasing result. Keep your eye out for the very interesting tidbits about the golden ratio's in face structure, which as some of you may know, also apply to photography in general: So What Can We Do With This Mask? I won't get into all the nitty gritty here, because I want to keep this article somewhat concise, but if you follow the link I provide here you can read all about how this face anatomy was determined to be the 'one'. Makes it seem a little cold and robotic doesn't it? However, our brains really do like order and proportions, so it would make complete sense that a face anatomy which conforms to our ideas of order and good proportions would be deemed as 'beautiful'. Everything from the proportion of the lips to the distance between the eyes has been precisely calculated. Well according to many experts, this is it:Īfter many years of research and studies, some facial experts have determined this mask to represent what our brains deem as 'beautiful'. I only hope to show you the direction this photo could take. Also, keep in mind, that while I did do some minor skin correction and color adjustments, this is far from a retouched photo. But because this image would have been discarded, it serves our purpose quite well. It is a 100% crop from a much larger image and it was just a lighting test, so the quality ain't the greatest. The image I have chosen to work with here is from a recent shoot. In this article, I want to explore with you what some experts deem to be the 'perfect' face anatomy, and how we can take a regular face that doesn't exactly conform to this standard and turn it into one that does using Photoshop's liquify tool.

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