How to get highly polished skin?

[JMC77]

Hi Shellby, congratulations on the new job! And thanks for getting this thread started. It really provides a lot of useful information for a newbie like me and, apparently, for everyone else as well.

Can't wait to try out some of the techniques discussed.

[pure]

one question please:

sarah silvers pictures look awesome.
the skin tones dont look red or yellow, just little desaturated and really smooth BROWN. is that retouched or "real" ?

is "broncolor" a sort of light?

thx

[rnbluvva]

Originally Posted by pure

one question please:

sarah silvers pictures look awesome.
the skin tones dont look red or yellow, just little desaturated and really smooth BROWN. is that retouched or "real" ?

is "broncolor" a sort of light?

thx

Yes, looks like it is a lighting system:
http://www.bron.ch/bc_home_en/index.php

[nvstyle]

Sarah Silver uses the broncolor beauty dish..i emailed her last year and thats what she told me. She also does workshops

[Pam]

The Broncolor beauty dish is a light modifier, it doesn't alter skin color. It just softens the quality of light.

The skin color is probably a combination of makeup and post-process work. Try desaturating individual colors in a hue/sat adjustment layer. Play around in Selective Color also.


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[mikulcarter]

does anyone have a link to the dodge/burn method ? i'm having trouble finding it. thanks a bunch!

[LESider]

this thread pretty much sums it up.
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/cla...ghlight=heyrad

[vanflymen]

There aren't any shortcuts.

I was taught to re-touch by a well known retoucher in New York who consistently does the Maybelline and Revlon prints.

It's a combination of the clone tool, to remove hairs and spots. Then dodging and burning skin pores to give the illusion of smoothness.

After the "clean up" is done, the image can then be "polised" by using various curve adjustments and masks.