They are Mommy and me photos of me and my son...and one of me and my daughter. I was able to do something with the one of my son and I...how ever I cant get the darn crinkles out of the one of my daughter and I.....help and ideas.....

The first one is the original and the second one I did....I am going to post the other photo of my daughter and I in a different post... :) All suggestions and ideas are so very welcomed.

try a very light airbrush, like 1 to 3 percent opacity and maybe even drop the density a bit. this is for the baby's face. sample the skin color and brush a bit. use variations of the color for different areas of the face. do this all on a blank layer above the image layer. if necessary, use a light gausian blur on the painted layer. you can also try putting the painted layer in a blend mode, like color or soft light. you can do this as you color or after... just depends on how you like to do things.

if all of that doesnt work, take a very light clone with feathered edges at about a 20 to 30% opacity and do a little clone painting across the face. overlay your strokes for a more smooth blending.

i tend to mix both of those techniques, sometimes cloning on the airbrushed layer. just depends.

set aside a nice quiet hour for uninterrupted work :)

Hi there

I used two methods

The first is the degrunge procedure with a highpass setting of 14 and a blur of 4.5

Then I stamped a layer

set the mode to screen

Applied a gaussian blur around 5... reduced opacity to around 50 percent

Duplicated that layer and changed mode to Multiply...adjusted opacity as needed

Grouped the screen and multiply with New Group from layers

Applied a hide all layer mask and painted the smooth skin at 50 percent opacity as needed.

Then unsharp mask

Butch

very nice, butch.

The Portraiture plug in & iCorrect

Used a little Lucis Art and some contrast enhancement.

Steve

The first is the degrunge procedure with a highpass setting of 14 and a blur of 4.5

Butch, don't forget to mask out the edges. Otherwise you get some serious "bleeding" which detracts from the overall effect.

chillin, that's real nice. I went through my normal routine to compare results, and I must say that your plug-in's come out very favourably.

Rô

chillin,

i like that. smoothed things up without that over-blurring one gets sometimes in noise reduction.

byRo & Kraellin thank you.
I love plugins, they really help me in my shortcomings in Photoshop.

Healing Brush...
Quik maske
Invert
Gausian Blur
Screen-Opacity 50-30%

The Portraiture plug in & iCorrect
The Portraiture plug in & iCorrect

Where can I find these plug ins please :cat:

http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx ---->Portraiture
http://www.pictocolor.com/editlabpro.htm ---->iCorrect

Healing Brush...
Quik maske
Invert
Gausian Blur
Screen-Opacity 50-30%

nice job, it's take away the lot of saturation of second picture.

Sorry for the late entry, just joined and I'm having a blast. I couldn't resist baby and mommy. I started with levels, then shadow and highlights (CS2) and then I ran it through imagenomic portraiture for the smoothing. Then I just took out a couple hot pixels on mommy's face and finished by taking down the blue in mommys top and color correcting the faces a little.