1) Take a picture of yourself. As a model. I'll use my friend. Pretty? Well, as you can see, she's a bit blue from staring at the computer for too long. Let's give hermore natural skin colour. First, duplicate the layer.
2) Hit Ctrl+U to open the Hue/Saturation box. Tick "Colorize" and play around with the colour until you get the skin colour you want. In my case, yellowish instead of blue and purple. Make sure you get the colours right because it's the colours that we will be focusing on. After that, go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and blur it to taste.
3) Done? Good. After that, simply change the Blend mode into "Overlay" and you'll get something like this. Looks much better! But we're not finished yet. Hit Ctrl+E to merge the 2 layers together.
4) Now, to give her that "model" lok, duplicate the layer and hit Ctrl+F to recall last filter, which is Gaussian Blur. Then simply change the Blend Mode of the new layer to "Overlay" again.
5) Just optional touch-ups in case the final picture is too dark. Hit Ctrl+U and adjust the "Lightness" bar until you get a good colour on the skin. Play around with the "Hue" bar too if you still got the colour a bit wrong.
And that's it! I've got myself a pretty good-looking friend
