How is this skin achieved?

[bonou234]

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Thanks for checking the thread out...i am wondering how this particular look is achieved, i LOVE the texture of her skin....that pimply dewy look? I know there are the 'usual' tutorials floating about but is this type of skin work those styles....i have tried to achieve this look and failed

http://www.cre8tivepixels.com/1.jpg

http://www.cre8tivepixels.com/1.jpg

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Dan

[flexmanta]

Can't tell at this resolution. What part are you interested: the shine, the color, or the texture?

[skauskas]

check this http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=439098

[flexmanta]

Hey Iris, i have to ask you something about your website. How did you manage to get the uiloader to smooth the image at the screen resolution? Every time I place a dinamic content uiloader and it has to shrink the image, it doesn't use any kind of resampling interpolation and the images get all jagged.

[skauskas]

Hey Flexmanta. Sorry I can't help you on this one I hired a flash specialist to do the "before-after" and I've bought the website as template.

[bonou234]

The texture guys......that pimple look....also the shine too

[skauskas]

I sent you the link bonou234. if you see the examples there you will see that it's what you are looking for.

[ruud92]

Originally Posted by bonou234

**NOTE** ALL COPYRIGHTS TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER!!!!

Thanks for checking the thread out...i am wondering how this particular look is achieved, i LOVE the texture of her skin....that pimply dewy look? I know there are the 'usual' tutorials floating about but is this type of skin work those styles....i have tried to achieve this look and failed

http://www.cre8tivepixels.com/1.jpg

http://www.cre8tivepixels.com/1.jpg

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Dan

The skin retouching you see there is just the degrunge technique, i would suggest you to learn the dodge and burn technique, it gives better results and is looks way more natural good luck

[Flashtones]

Originally Posted by ruud92

The skin retouching you see there is just the degrunge technique, i would suggest you to learn the dodge and burn technique, it gives better results and is looks way more natural good luck

I don't think so, look how exaggerated the texture is, look in the neck/shoulder area.

http://www.cre8tivepixels.com/1.jpg

She's either been misted with glycerin or there's some sort of texture overlay going on there.

[Pictus]

Originally Posted by Flashtones

I don't think so, look how exaggerated the texture is, look in the neck/shoulder area.

http://www.cre8tivepixels.com/1.jpg

She's either been misted with glycerin or there's some sort of texture overlay going on there.

The texture pattern looks like what Topaz Clean 2 produces...

[flexmanta]

Nah, that texture is what happens when people keep believing that an overlaid blurred noise layer makes good skin texture... now her pores are the size of peas.

[bimbo]

It doesn't really look natural, but it's a cool look. The 'correct way' would be Dodging and Burning until the end of time of course, but sometimes some people don't want it all to be perfectly realistic. I would say that this look has been achieved by using some kind of smoothing/blurring filter in combination with a High pass filter on top to get the texture back. The way I describe the smoothing can also be made with surface blur, but I will describe a slightly different method.

Try this:

1. SMOOTHING:
Copy your Background layer
Set the new layer's blend mode to Vivid light
Invert the image
Filter -> Other -> High pass
Adjust the settings to get the amount of smoothness you want
Add a black layer mask and paint in the mask with a soft white brush to reveal only the skin areas

2. BRING BACK TEXTURE:
Copy the Background layer once again
Put it on top of the Smoothed layer
Filter -> Other -> High pass
Setting should be low here, about 1-3 pixels, so you can see the texture just a bit
Set the Blend mode to Overlay/Soft light depending on how sharp/contrasty you want your texture
Add a black layer mask
Paint the texture back in the mask on the skin areas with a soft white brush

If you want extra texture you can also use Filter -> Noise -> Add noise with a setting of maybe 1% on the texture-layer. On this layer you can also use Gaussian Blur of a low amount since the texture tends to get a bit sharp sometimes.

This is a Quick and Dirty way for skin retouch, but with fair result if you don't overdo it. I always adjust the opacity of the layers too, to let the original texture shine through just a bit. Hope I made some sense!

/www.markusp.se

[ruud92]

Originally Posted by Flashtones

I don't think so, look how exaggerated the texture is, look in the neck/shoulder area.

http://www.cre8tivepixels.com/1.jpg

She's either been misted with glycerin or there's some sort of texture overlay going on there.

I still do think so.. in fact i'm sure they blurred the skin and put some skin texture layer (high pass) above it on soft light/overlay.. is looks so fake

[Flashtones]

Originally Posted by ruud92

I still do think so.. in fact i'm sure they blurred the skin and put some skin texture layer (high pass) above it on soft light/overlay.. is looks so fake

You're being contradictory.

What I replied to was your statement "The skin retouching you see there is just the degrunge technique."

Now you're saying something else.

I really don't care, but for the sake of the OP it's worth being clear that degrunge won't give him that exaggerated droplet look. At least not as described in the retouchpro tutorial most people here go by.