How to retouch like this!

[r_dg]

looking through pics from ANTM i was wondering how do they do this
http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/gen-galler...c1-500x636.jpg
http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/gen-galler...95-500x636.jpg
i know they used D&B technique and some kind of lightning, but i dont know,
it has a feeling like an illustration but yet photo and the skin looks perfect but not too fake.

[Insensitive.]

What specifically do you want to know? I see regular skin retouching, some D&B to add depth to both the skin and fabrics, a fake background, and most likely some fake fruit(later added in).

[r_dg]

mmm i would like to know how to completely make the eyeballs white like that, because those eyes are so white but without looking like fake

[Insensitive.]

I see, your right, the eyes are white but not very fake looking. It looks like after he whitens them, he shades the corners to add depth. It also appears that its not just a stark white, for the white girl it has a slight hint of gray.

[garibaldi]

I think that style is waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy overcooked. Look at it like this, if you were waling down the street and either one of those chicks walked up to you, appearing exaclty what they look like in the image, what would your reaction be? I mean really, picture a anemic, plastic, wrinkless, veinless, white eyeballed, white toothed alien walking up to you and askingif you wanted a strawberry! LOL

[fantacmet]

Such is the way we are taught beauty is.

Of course I keep in the ruling that beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

[garibaldi]

well Im glad I didnt drink the Kool Aid

[neumanns]

I think part of the reason the white eyes look ok is the way we percieve color. Without anything else in the photo for our eyes to compare it to our brain interpets it the way it think's it should be.

If the background were of an everyday nature and we had somthing to compare the color to it would come off as looking odd.

This is not based on fact it's based on theory therfore it's open to debate. But It's a theory i have come to believe bears some credability.

[Insensitive.]

Originally Posted by garibaldi

I think that style is waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy overcooked. Look at it like this, if you were waling down the street and either one of those chicks walked up to you, appearing exaclty what they look like in the image, what would your reaction be? I mean really, picture a anemic, plastic, wrinkless, veinless, white eyeballed, white toothed alien walking up to you and askingif you wanted a strawberry! LOL

I would be a bit freaked out.

[r_dg]

Originally Posted by garibaldi

I think that style is waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy overcooked. Look at it like this, if you were waling down the street and either one of those chicks walked up to you, appearing exaclty what they look like in the image, what would your reaction be? I mean really, picture a anemic, plastic, wrinkless, veinless, white eyeballed, white toothed alien walking up to you and askingif you wanted a strawberry! LOL

i would think it's a vampire! lol haha that happens when you read the stephenie mayer books... well back to the topic, i know that no one is perfect, and i think natural beauty is great, but almost all the time clients ask me to do that kind of retouch for them, they want to look like if they went out of a fashion ad LOL...

[jam1212]

It's stylized. It'd be a little freaky to see a manga chick walking down the street at you as well, but it works for the manga because it's a specific stylized form. I doubt they were going for realism in these shots.

[mileeeeeeenaaaa]

i like the style too.
i dont think it looks very real but i like the shadows and highlights on the skin the most. they should add a bit more texture in to the skin i think though.

does anyone actually know how to achieve this look using photoshop?
like
step
by
step?

[0lBaldy]

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5 different methods to achieve the Amy Dresser look.. AmyTutorial

I already know it is not EXACTLY the same.. but these methods will get you there!

[HroadhogD1]

I went to look at the AmyTutorial, and my antivirus was telling me that a trojan was trying to install there.............could be a false positive? Be careful.

[r_dg]

Originally Posted by HroadhogD1

I went to look at the AmyTutorial, and my antivirus was telling me that a trojan was trying to install there.............could be a false positive? Be careful.

it happened the same to me, i have a mac and obviously i dont have an antivirus but when i entered that page a pop up told me that if i wanted to keep reading my computer could suffer severious problems

[0lBaldy]

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The site has been De-Bugged and cleaned by the Webmaster and is working again!

5 different methods to achieve the Amy Dresser look.. AmyTutorial

These methods or a combination of the methods will get you there!

[HroadhogD1]

Good job, how did you get that done? What kind of a trojan was that anyway? Do you know?

[mileeeeeeenaaaa]

that link still contains the trojan on the second page
in future 0lbaldy
could you not post links with viruses on them please

so, the main objective is to make the shadows darker and retain the highlights?

[kajak]

thanks for the link 0lBaldy.. i think this alien look is cool u don't always want things to look real sometime there is some artistic side to it.. kind of fun retouching

[HroadhogD1]

The trojan is still there on the first page of the site. From what I can figure out, is it is a dialer-not good. Either the site is doing this(I don't think so) or the site has been hacked. Untill the site figures out how it was hacked, it will be unsafe to go there.

[skauskas]

I've checked the photos r_dg posted. these are the photos from covergirl photoshoot of America next top model actually. Those girls were 3 finalists But for my taste is also look a bit fake

[DXM]

dammit... I wanted to see the tutorial but since I use my laptop at work I can't afford the risk of getting a trojan/virus on it... bugger

[Quantum3Studio]

Looks nice... Even though I like veinless and the opposite as well... I think tehre is noise reduction here and all the other stuff.

[prodigyboy]

Originally Posted by insensitive.

what specifically do you want to know? I see regular skin retouching, some d&b to add depth to both the skin and fabrics, a fake background, and most likely some fake fruit(later added in).

how to do that fake vibrant background?

[prodigyboy]

Originally Posted by insensitive.

what specifically do you want to know? I see regular skin retouching, some d&b to add depth to both the skin and fabrics, a fake background, and most likely some fake fruit(later added in).

how to do that fake vibrant background?

[pellepiano]

Just make a new gradient based on the colors of those images background color.

[0lBaldy]

The 5 different methods to achieve the Amy Dresser Look Tutorial has been ripped, cleaned and put into a PDF? @:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wzmxmaztuj2/Amy Dresser Tutorial.pdf
It really does need the rollover to see the very subtle differences but I guess you could put the pics on separate layers and click em on and off if you need to visualize it

For those interested in how Amy Dresser does her thing as explained by her... There is a brief explanation from Amy... archived in this post @ RetouchPRO. There is also a sample PSD file there showing her layers and work flow.
(If you download it, Pay particular attention to the "Carve" Layer.. (Excellent example of pains taking D&B on a gray layer))

[DXM]

thanks... I'm going to try it as soon as I get some free time that wasn't originally meant for sleep. It's a bit busy right now.

[tothepro]

I think that style is waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy overcooked. Look at it like this, if you were waling down the street and either one of those chicks walked up to you, appearing exaclty what they look like in the image, what would your reaction be? I mean really, picture a anemic, plastic, wrinkless, veinless, white eyeballed, white toothed alien walking up to you and askingif you wanted a strawberry! LOL

That's marketing my friend. haha
Personally I think the d&b is a bit too much

[GoMango]

To make a point of retouching - "a picture speaks a thousand words". Any replies?