Photo Retouching - - retouching peach fuzz

kev · #1 12-10-2005, 08:23 PM

Ok guys,

I'm dealing with some skin issues on a beauty shot. It has to maintain the skin's texture, but I'm trying to remove a hefty amount of peach fuzz from someone's cheek. Has anyone ever dealt with this. tried going line by line, but it takes abhorrently long that way, and still doesn't seem to give me exactly what I'm looking for. It's pretty detailed as it's shot closeup and on a Valeo 22. Any suggestions from anyone?

Kaveh

mistermonday · #2 12-10-2005, 09:42 PM

Yes, suggest you attached a copy of the image so folks can scope the magnitude, Rgds, MM

KevinF · #3 12-10-2005, 10:37 PM

Does this thread help?
http://photoshoptechniques.com/forum...ead.php?t=8822

Kraellin · #4 12-10-2005, 11:24 PM

kev,

welcome to RP.

what's a valeo 22?

Craig

leuallen · #5 12-10-2005, 11:31 PM

No suggestions but faced with same problem and no solution.

I saw a retouch job of an extreme close up of a models face which showed extreme peach fuzz on the nose and very deep skin texture. It was a french retoucher with 'ray' something in the title and high end clients. He did an excellent job of retouching. I grabed the before and after to see if I could duplicate what he did. I can not even come close.

The fuzz is white. If you try to darken the fuzz you get dark areas on both sides of the hair even with a one pixel brush, the hair is so fine. Remove the darkeness and it lightens the hair so you darken again. Back and forth until its gone. Takes forever and even then the results were not that good. Using 50% gray overlay dodge and burn layer.

I am going to play with the methods in the TBone tutorial mentioned above and see if I can come up with anything. If I do, I will post the results.

I've ran into this before but usually in fairly small areas like under the lips where it's not too bad to remove. So a good technique to handle this would be a very nice thing to have.

Found the web site: http://www.rayfresh.com/
Take a look and see what you think of his work.

Larry

kev · #6 12-11-2005, 01:56 AM

I'm going to try a couple of those technniques. My main problem is that lately everything I get is shot digitally on 22 megapixel backs so they're about 4000x5300 pixels in native resolution, so when you're talking about a closeup of someone face, I see every last bit of roughness in the skin. Every line shows, and it's rather difficult at times to keep the texture when doing it to that degree unless I go in line by line, which takes too long. Anyway, I'm going to try the high pass/median filter method and see where that takes me.

shellby · #7 12-11-2005, 02:26 AM

Never heard that term before LOL

I am guessing you mean hair?

Vikki · #8 12-11-2005, 06:28 AM

Using the nose example by rayfresh, you can get his results by applyin a Dust and Scratches filter (12/17 settings) to a duplicate layer. Use a layer mask on this to bring back the original detail where needed.

Panpan · #9 12-11-2005, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Vikki

Using the nose example by rayfresh, you can get his results by applyin a Dust and Scratches filter (12/17 settings) to a duplicate layer. Use a layer mask on this to bring back the original detail where needed.

Hi Vikki
This is only partly on topic, but how did you extract the nose image from rayfresh's site? I tried but failed

Pierre

Vikki · #10 12-11-2005, 07:01 AM

"print screen" (captures screen to clipboard), "paste" in Photoshop.

Panpan · #11 12-11-2005, 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vikki

"print screen" (captures screen to clipboard), "paste" in Photoshop.

Doh! Thanks!

Ken Fournelle · #12 12-11-2005, 09:10 AM

Vikki,

If that's not how he did it, it is pretty close!

I made a mask with a 10-20% opacity black brush and painted back the original layer and did a side-by-side look at the images and it looked pretty good.

k

briarrose · #13 12-11-2005, 09:53 AM

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Never heard that term before LOL

I am guessing you mean hair?

Yep. It's an Americanism, and is a kind term that usually refers to the soft, vellus hair that women (and children) have on their faces...like the down, on a peach. Sometimes it's used in a slightly more derogatory and humorous way, to refer to the beginnings of a young man's beard...

I once read something from a photographer that had worked with Marilyn Monroe repeatedly, and he said that she had a "fuzzy" face--and the hair would catch the light, when he photographed, her, making her seem as if she was glowing...

mistermonday · #14 12-11-2005, 11:22 AM

PanPan, if you want to have the .swf file instead of a screen shot, IE downloads a copy of it to your Documents and Settings> User Name (yours)>Local Settings> Temporary Internet Files. This image is called retouch-alina.swf Best Rgds, MM

shellby · #15 12-11-2005, 12:08 PM

Thanks briarrose for clearing that up!