[Regina]

This is my first post, so I´ll start by introducing myself . I´m Regina from southern Brazil and I simply LOVE Retouch PRO, where I can always find answers to my retouch and restoration questions, and I hope you can help me one more time.
I´ve been looking for days for a tutorial explaining how to achieve the effect used on the actors faces in the movie poster: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/closer/index.html .
I would first describe it as a porcelain-like skin, but it is actually more textured, I think, and this is the effect I´m after.
Anyone able to help here? Thanks.

[shellby]

Try these two posts:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11842
How to get highly polished skin

and also read the post on "orange peel" skin

Both in this section.

[Panpan]

Shelby is right, but in addition to those effects the skins in that poster all have the same hue.

I used gmitchel's high key glow 1, a cooling filter and a pink layer on hue mode.

Pierre

[Regina]

Thanks Shellby, Pierre and Sarbeka. I tried your suggestions and also the ideas on this thread and my results were just OK, I guess I´ll have to keep on practising...

Sarbeka, I didn't see the link to the page you mentioned.

[sarbeka]

sorry !! it was not attached .

sarbeka

[byRo]

Regina! Welcome to RetouchPRO
(...ou, melhor, olá Gaucha!)

Besides what has already been said about the smooth skn texture, I'd like to call attention to the eyes.

In any portrait the eyes have a very big effect, and in this one they have been pretty heavily 'shopped. The (extreme) blue eye of the second figure just keep dragging your gaze away from the rest - and pretty much sets the "mood" of the image.

If they had left a more realistic eye, I think the everall effect would have been much weaker.

Welcome too, sarbeka Seems like you deleted your suggestion along with the post - could you re-submit?

Rô

[sarbeka]

Hi, the easiest way to get the quality which Regina asked for is 1st.to get the bruch tool B and click on the lightest area of the face 2nd.put in the MODE window on the toolbars to LUMONOSITY,3rd. put in the OPACITY window like a number that u can see its the best for your picture the same in the FLOW window and pass over the face by changing the brush size as the place needs to, this is what i have done . (when i am colouring B&w pictures,i put color in place of luminosity and get coulours from the pantone and toyo colours ).

sarebka

[Cassidy]

Looking at the Sony Link this pic seems to have a flat, almost painted look, so after mucking around a little, I added a 100% pink painted layer over the skin in screen mode which flattened the photo a little and introduced the high pink tone and then adjusted the opacity of the screen layer to around 15% so as to keep the lightened and slightly flattened skin. Merged the layers to a new layer and then duplicated the layer and used the screen blending mode again to amplify the paleness whilst still keeping the image looking rather natural.

[edgework]

I don't have an etched-in-stone workflow for an image like this, but I tend to just keep hammering away at it until it starts to take shape. In this one I used some diffuse glow moves (merging all to a new layer each time and putting that layer in luminosity mode to eliminate the tendency of Diffuse Glow to turn everything red). I also put a layer filled with white in soft-light mode. Then I painted black into an Overlay layer to get the detail areas back. A move into LAB to sharpen the lightness channel and a duplicated image into CMYK so I could rob the black channel, making it a layer mask in the LAB image for a stiff move to the "blacks." Added a touch of pink to the skin tones and brought back the original background with a soft mask.

[ray12]

Here is an attempt.

I used the original layer - adjusted levels to brighten up the image to a high key look - used surface blur to smooth the skin - used a mask to control where the new softer skin would go and how much - whitened teeth by selecting and removing yellow cast - dodged eye socket area to make it lighter - put highlight in eye to add depth.

Ray12

[Tessa]

I did an attempt with soft light blending in the layer palette.

Copied the background layer to work on.
Cleaned up the face with the clone stamp (not very careful I admit).
Then I made a new blank layer which I filled with a very light yellow tone (r 254, g 247, b 225) and set to "soft light" blending. Opacity 55%
Erased everything in that layer that I didn't want the effect on (eyes, background, around the nose etc). Used a big and very soft brush with 50-60% opacity. It becomes like a mask.
Then I did a copy of that layer and erased everything except where the darkest parts on the throat are. Opacity 50%

edit: forgot, you can try filling with white instead of the light yellow and see if you like it better.

[peachpuff]

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...xOXvAgUO4IsUh1

Used the wand to select her skin (lasso to de-select non-skin areas) then chose Layer via copy.. used different layers for teeth, lips, eyes (white area), gums, color dodge, color burn, brushes of different degrees of 'flow'.. For the cheek area I just "erased" (with a flow of 30% I think) the topmost layer of her pale skin for a more natural-looking "blush"..

[twinkissed]

Ehhh... maybe someone can give me an "e" for effort atleast LOL...

I ran a desaturation layer, an overlay painted layer using a light peach, then another for the cheek color, a couple of photo filters set to a slight purplish silver and also lightening without fading action by Karl S.