Lighting

[solitear]

Hi MJ.....

Before you do anything with your picture, you need to create the pattern for the healing brush:

File > New
64 x 64 pixels large
Edit > Fill > 50% Gray
Filter > Artistic > Film Grain
Grain Setting of 1
Highlight 0
Intensity of 5
Select > All
Edit > Define Pattern (like, um... 'skin')

Now, open your photo

Ctrl J to duplicate layer

Activate the Healing Brush and set the Source to Pattern
and choose the Screen Blending Mode (brush) and select the film grain pattern you just created.

Use a large brush and paint over all the skin (or anything else).... overdo it. Reduce layer opacity to apprx. 75%.

Ctrl J this retouched layer, change Healing Brush to Multiply Blend mode and use the same pattern to refine the areas....

The following is the same picture I posted before without the color added.... I used this method on the background, too.

Beth

[Charlene5]

Beth!! I recognize the recipe!! It's Katrin Eismann's Barbie Skin!! I used that to help rebuild the baby's face on the tape side - along with grafts from his mom. I never thought of using it on everything. I shall give it a try. Thanks!

I'm not asking questions about the attached photo but I wanted y'all to see it because it's the reason why I'm so focused on bringing the old pictures back. I'm working at this one tonight. It was taken a year after the last one, same photographer, same side lighting It is the same mother and son (my dad and my grandmother) but the woman doesn't seem to be the same person. She's lost a ton of weight and looks gaunt and drawn. She died three years later when my dad was 7 years old. I never knew her and the photos are all I have of her.

Thank you, ALL of you, for your help.

Cheers,

MJ

[solitear]

Exactly, MJ...... I forgot to credit Katrin in this thread but I recently posted this method where I did credit her.... I always try to remember to do this with other people's methods..... you know, 'give credit where credit's due'.....

I just love the technique when I need to put some 'substance' into vacant areas....

The photos are great and I know they mean the world to you... thanks for letting us play!

Beth