Bumpy Skin Retouch Help!

[Yoolan]

happy new year.

my try. done with healing brush.

regards rob

[zgdesign]

Hi Butch,

Could you please go a bit more into detail. I love the look of your process, but am not exactly understanding some of the steps.

What do you mean when you say "produced a pore mask with highpass filter, and what radius"?

When you say stamped layer, what do you mean by this?

Not sure which layers were duped and set to multiply either. Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by Daviskw

Hi there

I assumed you wanted to keep texture and pores.

I first used the healing brush to remove some of the worst bumps.

I duplicated a layer and produced a pore mask with a highpass filter and turned the visibility off.

Then degrundge with a 15 highpass and 5 blur... masked as needed.

Stamped a layer set the blend mode to screen and applied gaussian blur at 10 pixels. Reduced opacity to around 70 I believe then duplicated and changed the dups mode to multiply. I grouped the screen and multiply layers and applied a mask to remove from eyes.

Turned on the pore mask and adjusted opacity as needed. Then sharpened.

Butch

[philbach]

I copied the background layer and used screen blending mode. To this layer I added an aggressive Gaussian Blur of about 45. I then copied the blurred layer to a new layer and used mutliply blending Mode. I decreased the opacity of the multiply layer to about 34% to keep the photo from getting too dark.

Next I selected the Screen Layer and the Multiply layer and used new group from layers option to combine the layers and to that group I added a group mask.

Then I painted the mask in with a white brush.

[Ziaphra]

I think your rendition turned out really great Phil!

[topretouch]

Here is my try

[url=http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c154/MacKenzie02/_MG_1995after1.jpg]

[topretouch]

Here is my try

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c154/MacKenzie02/_MG_1995after1.jpg?t=1168057392

[Cassidy]

Originally Posted by philbach

I copied the background layer and used screen blending mode. To this layer I added an aggressive Gaussian Blur of about 45. I then copied the blurred layer to a new layer and used mutliply blending Mode. I decreased the opacity of the multiply layer to about 34% to keep the photo from getting too dark.

Next I selected the Screen Layer and the Multiply layer and used new group from layers option to combine the layers and to that group I added a group mask.

Then I painted the mask in with a white brush.

Great technique and explanation there Phil

[Jack Frost]

Originally Posted by exp5

Merry Christmas

Okay, are you going to tell us what you did?

Good Job BTW!

[pixeltek]

i went with an over-the-top look...it was fun to work on this image.

[Frank Lopes]

This is the best compromise that I came up with.

[Syd]

I tried Phil's technique on this one and it did most of the work for me. Thanks Phil! The rest was D&B. Here is a tip I found somewhere (but for the life of me I can't remember where so apologies for not acknowledging if it was from any of you out there)! If you are losing texture on the skin, copy the original layer, move it to the front, desaturate it, set the blend mode to Soft Light, turn down the opacity of the layer (usually to the low thirties but I suppose it would depend on the resolution of the image). Now add a layer mask and mask out the areas where you don't want more texture or additional contrast.
Sincerely Syd