How To Apply Digital Make-up Professionally on Portrait Photos

Please find the links to Emily's free digital makeup download, to the unretouched example image and to the software in the comments.

Emily shows us how to create a perfect makeup for Alex on a photo that we have shot last time. Afterward, I show you how I then leverage Emily's makeup for the remaining pictures of Alex.

Here's a list of the settings that Emily applied to the photo to make Alex appear perfect on her portraits:

Face Sculpt
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Master Fade: 24
- Face Shape: 17
- Eyes: 17
- Eye Widening: 23
- Mouth Shape: 21
- Plum Lips: 34
- Nose:40
- Neck: 10
- Lens Correct: 12
- Head Forward: 23
- Hair Volume:59

Skin Smoothing
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Master Fade: 39
- Around Eyes:24
- Imperfections:52
- Thin Wrinkles:19
- Fine Shadows:41
- Remove Pores: 32
- Remove Shine: 65
- Remove Grease: 27
- Texture: -28
- Skine Texture Type: Smooth+Fine Hairs #2

Skin Lighting & Coloring
- Modeling: 37
- Fix Lighting:11
- Smokey Eyes: 38
- Pout: 15
- Sculpt Nose: 15

Makeup
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Lipstick: 37
- Texture 4
- Shine 75
- Coverage 10
Mascare: 26
- Texture:Light Application
Upper Eyeshadow: 56
- Texture:Semi Matte
- Shape: Blended
- Shine: 37
- Inner Opacity: 56
- Outer Opacity:56
Lower Eyeshadow: 0
Eyeliner: 100
- Upper Liner Opacity: 100
- Upper Application: Kohl
- Lower eyeliner: 0
Blusher: 32
- Face Shape: Heart
Bronzer: 0
Hightlighter: 22
Eyebrow Pencil: 30
- Left: 33
- Right.27

Eye
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Master Fade: 41
- White Eye:51
- Clean Eye: 57
- Whitening Area:41
- Darken Pupil: 46
- Darken Pupil Size:14
- Sharpen Eye:33
- Sharpen Eyebrows:0
- Bright Iris: 22

Mouth & Nose
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Master Fade:26
- Lip Saturation: 58
- Lip Darken: 19
- Moisten Lips: 49
- Lip Hue:13

Hair
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Shine:39

But please make your life easy, download Emily's session and save her makeup as a preset in PortraitPro.

I wish you good light!
Michael