removing shine on forehead and nose

[Frank Ruiter]

Hello Everyone,

Could you help me out with this picture?
I forgot to bring any powder when i had to make this shot and i like to retouch the shining nose and forehead. What is the best (most professional) way to do this?

Thank very much,

Frank

[Gary Richardson]

Just had a v.quick go with this one.

New layer, clone using a Soft Brush at about 10% opacity. Adjust layer opacity to fine tune.

Depends on size of image, and how close you need to get as to whether this is a suitable technique, as sometimes texture loss is noticeable if you're a bit heavy handed.

[Cassidy]

Created a New Layer, sampled darker but near areas of the skin, set the blending of the new layer to multiply and using a low opacity brush slowly started removing the shine. When finished, reduced the opacity of the multiply layer by approx 25% as it seems you always overdo it a bit to start off with.

[Dmax]

make new document 60 pixel x 60 pixel
fill it will 50% gray
add noise 1.0 guasian and monochrome
define pattern
close and go to this image duplcate layer
heal brush
diameter 10 hardness 100 spacing 40 angle 29 roundnedd 40 mode multiply pattern and select that pattern you just made
now brush on your desired places
hope you will enjoy this tip you can use this method on normal type of finishing as well
please comment ............

[Swampy]

Feathered selection of forhead and nose.
Selective color AJ on the Whites adding magenta and yellow and beefing up the blacks (0,22,30,10 Abosolute). Layer set to normal, reduce opacity to taste. Touch up with low opacity white brush on mask.

[KR1156]

just add a curve on top, darken the quater tones a bit and put it in darken mode....then just take like a 20% opacity brush and gradually mask it in in the areas you want to tone down. this way you have total control later on with the adjustment layer.

maybe later on you'll say hey, i needed that shine to give me more contrast, then you can tone down your curve. no damage done.

[madclark]

Using the Select>Color Range feature, select the highlight areas and then in a new layer, after selecting a medium skin tone in the foreground, Edit>Fill>Foreground Color. Change the blend mode to multiply and reduce opacity.

Easy peasy. No painting involved.

[SchlinkyMalinky]

that's the way I'd do it MClark

[Dave.Cox]

MadClark, I tried your method. Pretty Cool! I like it.

[madclark]

The funny thing was that I didn't really know what steps to take before I tried the fix, but I found when I verbalized step by step what should happen, what I should do in Photoshop just sort of came to me. It's a little watershed moment so I really appreciate the positive feedback.

Thanks!

[sashacooper]

Originally Posted by Frank Ruiter

Hello Everyone,

Could you help me out with this picture?
I forgot to bring any powder when i had to make this shot and i like to retouch the shining nose and forehead. What is the best (most professional) way to do this?

Thank very much,

Frank

Hi,

There is a very easy technique without painting at all.

1) Being in RGB, duplicate you layer 2 times.
2) Put top layer in Darken blending mode (disable any lightening of layers below it)
3) Apply to the middle layer Edit->Apply Image either Green or Blue channel from Background Layer (bottom layer) as a source in Normal Mode but Inverted!.
4) Put middle layer on Overlay blending mode and
5) Gauss. Blur middle layer with radius from 20% to 60%.

No airbrushing and you could create simple action to speed it up.
Reduce opacity of the middle layer if necessary.

In your image, there's no color information on nose (the forehead is ok with the technique above)
- it is white, so Overlay doesn't help, you have to clone/patch/blur or use other techniques to add color there

Sasha

[CathyH]

Hi I wanted to try madclarks and KR's way to do this, both worked pretty good for me.
Then I combined and a desaturated the photo for fun.

[KR1156]

cathy, the way i explained it works fine for the forehead, but you def need to select the nose highlight like madclark stated, due to the lack of info in the blown out whites.

[CathyH]

I noticed it didn't pick up enough info on the nose, so I brushed on some color to the nose, on the same layer. The other thing I did was blurred it slightly.

[KR1156]

a lot of these solutions work great on a low res jpeg.....but you really need to feel out what works best for you on a hi-rez shot.

i personally stay away from any blurring, i don't even like to clone/heal unless i have to. Also be careful, if you're going to brush in a color…add a little noise to that area, if not it will be one flat color and may not be noticeable on screen, but will be on print. it will look flat and not match the texture of the rest of the image.