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| james... |
 Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:04 pm |
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Most facial blemishes that I want to retouch out are pimples, acnes, and
rough skin.
For pimples and acnes (red spots), I clone from a neighboring healthy area
with "lighten" mode. Rough skin is a little more tedious: it contains many
darker and brighter spots. I also clone them out (sometimes using "darken"
mode as well).
However in close up facial shot, even normal healthy adult face has fine
hair and folicles. If I clone out the blemishes, the fine details are also
destroyed, making that area looks different from the un-retouched area.
What is the solution? I see that in fashion magazines, many women's faces
are retouched to the point where no fine hair or folicles are visible. It
looks unreal but perhaps that is acceptable. For me, I want the photo to
look natural after I retouched it.
Is there a better technique, or special plug-in to help? |
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| Kabuki... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:16 pm |
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"james" <nospam at (no spam) nospam.com> wrote in message news:ha2gf3$sgc$1 at (no spam) aioe.org...
Quote: Most facial blemishes that I want to retouch out are pimples, acnes, and
rough skin.
For pimples and acnes (red spots), I clone from a neighboring healthy area
with "lighten" mode. Rough skin is a little more tedious: it contains many
darker and brighter spots. I also clone them out (sometimes using "darken"
mode as well).
However in close up facial shot, even normal healthy adult face has fine
hair and folicles. If I clone out the blemishes, the fine details are also
destroyed, making that area looks different from the un-retouched area.
What is the solution? I see that in fashion magazines, many women's faces
are retouched to the point where no fine hair or folicles are visible. It
looks unreal but perhaps that is acceptable. For me, I want the photo to
look natural after I retouched it.
Is there a better technique, or special plug-in to help?
what version of PS?
have you tried the HEALING TOOL?
it preserves the textures, there are two choices
I never used lighten or darken for cloning repairs
I use a soft edged brush and low opacity
for really pimply or wrinkly faces sometimes you can use an over all method
like Gaussian or surface blur the skin, mask the eyes, lips nose edges, all
you don't want softened, adjust the opacity of that layer
but I agree the result of that technique is somewhat fake-y like a soft
focus filter
there is a free action you can download -also a bit heavy handed look
(Tony's soft 2 blur)
I find the plug-ins look over done too
no sub for just removing blemish by blemish, the old fashioned way
the fashion ads take a lot of license, all the texture is gone, glow added,
the colors of the entire skin and hair change drastically, I agree not
acceptable for a realistic portrait |
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| Alan Browne... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:46 pm |
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james wrote:
Quote: Most facial blemishes that I want to retouch out are pimples, acnes, and
rough skin.
For pimples and acnes (red spots), I clone from a neighboring healthy
area with "lighten" mode. Rough skin is a little more tedious: it
contains many darker and brighter spots. I also clone them out
(sometimes using "darken" mode as well).
However in close up facial shot, even normal healthy adult face has fine
hair and folicles. If I clone out the blemishes, the fine details are
also destroyed, making that area looks different from the un-retouched
area.
What is the solution? I see that in fashion magazines, many women's
faces are retouched to the point where no fine hair or folicles are
visible. It looks unreal but perhaps that is acceptable. For me, I want
the photo to look natural after I retouched it.
Is there a better technique, or special plug-in to help?
I use the "healing brush" in PS (Elements or CS3). It mixes local
colour/texture with sample colour/texture in effect blending the two.
So it is similar to the clone in operation without making a dead exact copy.
Depending on what it is, I sometime clone a healthy patch over and then
use the healing brush to mix and match. |
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