Having just finished a job which involved turning a snapshot of a rather grubby young lad into a studio portrait, I thought I should share a little technique that comes in useful sometimes.

Problem here was that the young lad's shirt was all creased, and blurring wasn't an option because it had a small checkered pattern.

The trick is to use the deGrunge (http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=213) technique - but with proportionally higher radii than when using for skin.
The same high-pass / Gaussian blur method but this time we want to preserve the pattern (pores) and the creases are our "grunge".

Rô

Thanks Ro - off to study that tutorial again ... :bigthmb:

Thanks Ro!! Awesome tip! Thankyou very mcuh for sharing that.

excellent tip, Ro. really looks good!

craig

The 'degrunge' technique can be used for a multitude of applications its probably the #1 most valuable technique on the forum ;)
(Thanks Ro ;))

Thank you so much!!!

Ro,

How high was your radii?

k

Ro, that's a great use for your already very useful Degrunge tutorial. Like the reeal life steam irons, you could market this as "Stand Alone" or "Plug in" (pun intended).
Thanks & Regards, Murray

How high was your radii?k
It was around 22 as I remember - but this was a larger image (~3000 pixels)

Better would be to say that is was bigger than the checkers, and smaller than the creases.

Rô