Quote (Xandriia @ Jun 2 2010 01:29pm)
Ah I see.
Ive never heard of the brush technique for skin, Ive never really had to do skin retouching though. Im going to be photographing people in the near future though, would you mind explaining it?
Basically do all your skin repairing with the clone tool (acne, scars, pimples, etc) Rebuild things example; cracked lips, fucked teeth etc (for yellow teeth do a -100 yellow sat in a new hue/sat layer, fill with black, paint out the teeth with a white brush, play with the opacity until it looks normal)
Alt+J (pc) new layer, select your brush tool and set the opacity to around 10%, the flow to around ~30% and the softness pretty low (careful not to over paint into the background or onto hair and stuff. Just add a layer mask and paint it out with black afterwards)
Hold alt for the eyedropper and grab a skin tone sample off the subjects face that looks close to their natural tone.
Brush the areas that you want smoothed over. Works with greasy faces and flash highlights too.
Be careful with the shadows though, using a sample tone from the skin highlights on shadow areas will look muddy.
Flatten image when you're satisfied, go to channels > drag RGB into load selection > go back to layers and Alt+J for a new layer > Gaussian blur > ~1.5% > Add a layer mask to the blur and paint out with black the parts that need to be sharp (eye lashes, nose line, jaw line etc)
Then flatten and add a little noise to give a little tone back.
Selectively sharpen using a new layer and mask.
That's basically it
This post was edited by lithfkn on Jun 1 2010 10:12pm