Cleaning Lips

[bkravchenko]

Attached is a photo of lips, I would like to make them look smooth and even color. There is just so much wrong with them, I don't know how to go about it.

Any ideas...

[Insensitive.]

I actually think they look beautiful, all I would do is adjust the inner bottom lip to be the same color as the rest.

[mepaulus]

I had a go at this , i,m not very experienced at retouching ,more into restoration but this looked a nice image to experiment.I used a layer mask around the lips then added a very fine opaque white layer , duplicated the lips well feathered with a bit more saturation.

[bkravchenko]

thanks mepaulus, that looks like it might work.

So you have a low opacity white layer above the original lips and then a more saturated version of the lips on top of that, or did you merge the white layer before duplicating the lips?

[mepaulus]

Originally Posted by bkravchenko

thanks mepaulus, that looks like it might work.

So you have a low opacity white layer above the original lips and then a more saturated version of the lips on top of that, or did you merge the white layer before duplicating the lips?

Use a solid white/skin colour adjustment layer at very low opacity over the whole image to hide those fine hairs then paint with a soft black brush on the mask to allow the lips to show through.feather and copy the lips then adjust hue/saturation to your liking then clean up any duff spots.Theres probably a quicker way but as i said i,m new to retouching.I kept the layers separate till i was happy with the look
Good luck

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by bkravchenko

Attached is a photo of lips, I would like to make them look smooth and even color.
Any ideas...

Used Kent Christiansen's "Skin Fix" Action (#35 under "Image Enhancements") to smooth lips... Plus a small amount of healing

[Kenia]

You may try duplicating the image, create a layer, quick mask, paint the lips to create a selection, load the selection, deselect creating a selection then play with colors and the various blending modes until you get effect that you want. Then merge or flatten and save as.
hope this helps. I think I got the sequence right.

[mepaulus]

Originally Posted by 0lBaldy

Used Kent Christiansen's "Skin Fix" Action (#35 under "Image Enhancements") to smooth lips... Plus a small amount of healing

Wow that looks awsome Olbaldy , many thanks for that post , must try it out.

[LonK]

There's a very wide range of results that can be gotten when retouching lips. This is a smooth/moist look that I think is pleasant without going overboard. Once you select the lips (pen tool) there's really no end to what you can do.

[kapalika]

Originally Posted by LonK

There's a very wide range of results that can be gotten when retouching lips. This is a smooth/moist look that I think is pleasant without going overboard. Once you select the lips (pen tool) there's really no end to what you can do.

wow, i like your result a lot
can you share your steps?

[LonK]

Thanks. Glad you like the result.

I used the pen tool to select the lips, refine edge to slightly smooth/feather the selection, jumped to a new layer. Topaz Denoise works nicely to soften the coarse texture. I used the burn tool to darken the edges and H/S to set the color tone, dodge tool to selectively brighten the highlights. On a new layer, with a white splatter brush tip (adjust roundness to make it wide), I make a short stroke, slight vertical motion blur, warp to fit, adjust opacity for extra gloss. Finally, in this case, I overlayed a copy of the original, set to luminosity blend with reduced opacity to retrieve a bit of the original texture. Sounds complex, but can actually be done rather quickly and the adjustments made in the various steps allow a considerable range of end results.

[chillin]

I used the leuallen method ("D&B mxp file").
Hi's Configurator panel works great.

[HelloPiccadilly]

is there any video tutorial for retouching of lips?))