Photo Retouching - - Newbie looking for smooth skin tips - Page 2

evm · #16 08-09-2002, 01:00 PM

Hi everyone, this is my first post (became a member 10min. ago) and i must say this board is fantastic and full of experienced users.

ok, know to the true intention of this post. I've been searching alot for tutorials on how to smooth skin like they do with models in advertising and i can tell you it was very hard to find, but i got hold of some and will now share the links. A warning! the links contain lots of nudity cause people who use this technique most frequently are the "scanners". If you want to go with the more natural look just be a little more easy with the blur and perhaps lower the opacity more. Hope this will help with making pictures of your girl/boyfriend more glamouros (didn't know how to spell that

). sorry for my english, don't use it much over here.

Extreme Skin Smoothing Links:

http://www.scanworldsite.com/howtos.html

http://scan.zpc.cz/scanaddict/sa_howto_harli.htm

http://members.fortunecity.com/scp1/...mes/index.html

http://members.fortunecity.com/scp1/...Scan_Guide.htm

Mig · #17 08-10-2002, 01:41 AM

Hi evm,

Welcome to the site. Thanks for the links. I love nudity. And I enjoy the subject of working on skin.

Here's the thing though... the scanners are lousy photoshoppers. They need to stick to scanning.
There's a lot of people who seem to like this glamour puss look, that's fine. But it's definitely not what you'll see in advertising or in fashion mags.

This isn't the first time this subject has come up here, as people are interested in it, so maybe someone will write a tutorial.

Mind you, playing around with the techniques they use can't hurt, but there's quite difference between what's done to the playboy pics compared with the fashion pics.

Mig

Here's a sample from well known scanner, DeathScan, and what he did to this girl's skin.

Mig · #18 08-10-2002, 01:42 AM

And here's Vogue.
Might just be a matter of taste.

jace112 · #19 08-10-2002, 05:14 AM

Hey Guys where are you gonna stop ?
Each day you give me more tips...
THX so much !!!

evm · #20 08-10-2002, 06:53 AM

Thanx for the welcome mig!

I totally agree with you on the playboy vs fashion thing, hope someone will write a nice tutorial. I think a lot of the fashionshots don't need that much manipulation in photoshop, after all they've got the worlds best makeup artists and proper lighting and ofcourse a pro camera man. I have a friend who does advertising and fashion shots and he doesn't use photoshop at all. He takes a fine brush and mixes his own colors and retouches the final print by hand, wich he then sends to the magazine editors who then drumscan it. But as i said, hope someone with the experience will write a good tutorial on the techniques they use with photoshop at the big fashion magazines... anyone working for vogue out there?

winwintoo · #21 08-10-2002, 11:50 AM

OK, I admit it. My life experience is severely limited.

What the heck are "scanners"

Margaret

Doug Nelson · #22 08-10-2002, 01:32 PM

"Scanners" are (imho) arrested adolescents that scan nekkid ladies from magazines and post them on usenet and the web. They further the cycle of the objectification of women by turning them into so many anonymous trading cards. Frequently, they further anonymize their objects with further retouching and compositing with other photos. Their warcry is "we celebrate beauty", but they actually trivialize and mechanize the human image by removing any trace of personality and experience.

winwintoo · #23 08-10-2002, 01:40 PM

Thanks Doug, I had formed a similar opinion of their work, but wondered if I was missing something.

Margaret

john_opitz · #24 08-11-2002, 11:24 AM

Try this for skin smoothing at this thread

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sho...&threadid=2225

Legacy~Art · #25 01-10-2005, 11:23 AM

Texan thank you for your skin tutorial, its something i really would like to learn, i was sent the photoshop 7 program and since then i have dabbled only by doing make overs, now not the way everyone here does it seems, i have just been making it up as i went along, but that is good instructions to read and thanks for taking the time out...

Now i was chatting to a member last night and he told me i needed to make a mask of where i was going to do the skin, i tried and i tried and i cannot work out how to make a mask, anyone give me any tips on how and please give easy instructions cos i am still learning the icons on the program.

Thank you in advance.

Legacy~

Flora · #26 01-13-2005, 12:10 PM

Hi Legacy~,

whenever you make a selection on a picture to retouch/restore, you have actually already created a mask! ....

A search for "mask" in our Tutorial section, will surely be a great help!!!

Legacy~Art · #27 01-19-2005, 08:47 PM

Flora thanks for the links your a credit to this site hun!