That Soft Dior Look for Portraits

ray12 · #1 01-06-2006, 10:18 AM

This tutorial will show you a technique on how to create that soft Dior magazine style look to your portraits. It will also show you how to selectively remove uneven skin, wrinkles, blemishes and add highlights to create some drama. This technique requires Photoshop CS2 for the smooth skin segment because the surface blur filter is brand new in that release. [details]

fat0n3s · #2 01-19-2006, 03:49 AM

Great tutorial so far.

Can't wait till its done. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

IM_Fletcher · #3 01-20-2006, 11:31 AM

Great tutorial, extremely helpful. I'm sure it will be even better when finished. Thanks!

Flora · #4 01-21-2006, 03:07 AM

Hi,

IM_Fletcher,

Welcome to RetouchPRO!

ray12

...what can I say ... just don't stop!!! ... Great Tutorial

Very detailed and covering all the aspects of this very delicate procedure!!!!!!

eogg · #5 02-14-2006, 04:11 AM

That's an awesome job you've put yourself into ! Many thanks for sharing this with us !

fat0n3s · #6 02-24-2006, 11:40 AM

This tutorial just keeps getting better.

Best one I have seen in awhile.

Thanks for all your efforts.

woofw · #7 02-25-2006, 10:34 PM

Gr8 tut, another way to 'skin' a cat. lookin froward to the next one.

Garyw1960 · #8 03-31-2006, 10:51 PM

As a newcomer to this art thanks for this Ray. The information is absolutely invaluable, I am learning so much following and experimenting with this tutorial.

As a photographer I try to get it right in camera but thats a tall order in 90% of all shots. Thanks again Ray I look forward to following this to the end.

Bob Mc · #9 04-01-2006, 10:52 AM

It's a great tutorial ...Plenty of detail and well written ...making it very easy to follow

Regards

Bob Mc

Janet Petty · #10 04-01-2006, 12:54 PM

Excellent tutorial. You put a lot of time and effort into this and it shows in the quality of the finished product.

Janet

snook305 · #11 04-20-2006, 08:20 AM

Too Cool... Thanks...
Hopefully someone will do a similar tutorial for the "Dragan" Ficus etc.. Look..
Thanks again!!
Snook
Photoshop. I think there could be more on how to bring back or put in more texture as The "trend" is coming to more natural retouching...
We'll see..

ray12 · #12 05-19-2006, 08:50 PM

Thanks all... for your nice comments.

Snook, I was thinking about doing a separate tutorial specifically on how to add skin pores and skin texture back into a protrait - but I was thinking it would be somewhat redundant with some of the detail I had in this present tutorial.

I was thinking about a tutorial on: How to create skin textures - how to make up skin texture masks - and how to blend and shade a portrait. I would cover some of the same stuff - but add in more detail.

Would this be too much - or do others want more detail on this specific area. Didn't want to over do it.

Ray

woofw · #13 05-20-2006, 04:22 AM

That would be gr8ly appreciated and lookin forwrd to the tut. Tha

nks heaps.....

Cameraken · #14 05-20-2006, 12:36 PM

Hi Ray

Quote:

I was thinking about a tutorial on: How to create skin textures - how to make up skin texture masks - and how to blend and shade a portrait. I would cover some of the same stuff - but add in more detail

Don’t stop Ray. The Dior tutorial is excellent.

Quote:

Would this be too much

Definitely not. The more detail the better.

I look forward to it.

Ken

singlo · #15 05-31-2006, 05:50 PM

thanks for tutorial.
But I can't get my head round on how to make a skin texture face mask using good skin texture samples. There are too many complications. For example, you have a hi-resolutiuon image of a face with perfect skin texture and you wanna use it for anothor photo. The complications are:

1. skin texture varies with type of lighting sources, angle of illuimination,angle of the face toward the camera, the highlight, mid-tone and shadows. Skin texture is more obvious in mid-tone/shadows than highlight areas. Each photo and individual face are different in the distribution and appearance of skin texture...many variables.

2. A skin texture face mask??? I can't visualise in my head how this is done in practice because of the variables mentioned above. Also if you have a rectangular strip of ideal skin texture sample from a third party, how you blend it locally to three-dimensional features of a face in a 2D photo?

3. scaling of the skin texture size due to different resolution, size etc of different photos.

BTW I never use any form of blur in retouching because it removes too much skin texture, getting really plastic but this is a matter of personal taste though.