How to get highly polished skin?

[chromaticstyle]

hello, one of my first posts!

shelby: i really think that a blur has definately been used in those retouched photos. i mean, there is absolutely no skin detail. the only way i believe that no blur could have been used, is those are indeed not human models but wax models!

if no blur has been applied, then smudging or something which destroys skin detail has been applied. every is sooooo smooth in the photo. maybe the guy is very protective of his sectrets -- who knows?

anyway, i took a two minute crack at it on your avatar photo, and here is what i've come up with. if you like the technique, let me know and i will post it. it's very easy.

cheers and good luck!

[Mak]

Originally Posted by PatrickB

Hi Cristian and welcome to Retouchpro.com!

Don't worry about your english, we are an international community, greetings from Munich btw

Why don't you post some of the steps you have made to achieve this result? I'm sure there are a lot of people to give hints and advice to improve your skills to the max!

Patrick

Thank you Patrick,

infact, the skin its very flat. I don't work in the shadow zone for avoid the flat "effect".
When I have a bit of free time I post some pics.

Bye

[snook305]

Shelby did you find out anything else...
I did this tweaking the red channel, Not quite the same but Similiar

Or No?
http://homepage.mac.com/ekphotograph...images/043.jpg
Snook

[pure]

snook, is it you? i am not sure, but i know someone from the south like snook, i am peter, you remember? i asked you about photography earlier in 2004. (peppermint at quincy)

[shellby]

Looking good snook

Good for us to play around with ideas

A good starting image is alway important.

It seems that healing, then surface or lens blur, then bring back some texture using sharpening, then adding glow is the answer

Otherwise you can use smudge rather than blur.

Painting over the skin with a paintbrush at about 5% for smoothing can also work.

Any other ideas?

[Jeronimas]

Originally Posted by snook305

Shelby did you find out anything else...
I did this tweaking the red channel, Not quite the same but Similiar

Or No?
http://homepage.mac.com/ekphotograph...images/043.jpg
Snook

Looks very nice, how did you managed to get this effect?

[valentinopro]

Hi Guys, this is Valentino I just got my camera and started to play with it I'm having a blast... this thread is really interesting and Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
This is a picture I took of my friend Burgandy.

[valentinopro]

here is the initial shot. I used no bluring just the healing brush, I little bit of dust and Scrath on the red and green channels. some bush work on the shadows and highlights with curve adj. layer.

[megl]

Originally Posted by tristefoc

hi i checked through your posts and i was wondering if you could explain how you did it...there doesnt seem to be any explaination..thanks!

Akbar - I agree with tristefoc: There's doesn't seem to be any kind of explanation from you here??

/megl

[mikulcarter]

Snook, I'm also very curious as to what you were doing with the copied red layer? Were you applying some sort of noise reducer? or is it a blur method?
Great image by the way.

[superkoax]

Shellbye! The pictures from dior is really difficult to achieve without blurring them down! I have trie noumerouse way sto get the effect without blurring, but it doesn't seem to be ht eright one...nor do I get the skintone right! I think that if you call a shovel a shovel, this is blur! If we haven't come up with a brand new way of retouching pictures...We should hav eheard about it...

Many times I read post here and it's like we are here and behind a big wal of mystery and secrets there are the pro retouchers! I don't think that blurring and doding is bad when it comes to retouching as long as it get's the job done!


It's nice to be involved with creative brains tonight

here is my try!

[megl]

Originally Posted by superkoax

Shellbye! The pictures from dior is really difficult to achieve without blurring them down!

I really don't like blurring - here's one, where I did the skin softening with only the clone stamp and curves:

http://www.sendefladen.dk/dpreview/GlobalTvlr2.jpg

/megl

[superkoax]

but, your version of the clone stam is nice, but i it lacks detail...more skin detalis is important...and the skin color is somewhat greenish?! the transition between the eye brows and the forehad skin isn't good...you see the transition too much and there is a color difference there as well...! and to be honest I don't see any clone stamp with this!


Gerry

[megl]

Originally Posted by superkoax

but, your version of the clone stam is nice, but i it lacks detail...more skin detalis is important...

I agree - it was done as an exercise on how far you could go with the clone stamp tool alone ... and yeah - some of the details is a little sluggish ... it was done very fast ;-)

Here's another one with more skin detail:

http://www.sendefladen.dk/dpreview/GlobalTvlr.jpg

/megl

[leuallen]

For comparison, here is the same image megl did. This was mostly dodge/burn and very slow going. Probably took four hours. Not nearly as fast as cloning.

Larry