Baby Oil

[questhero]

Hey Everyone,

I've been asked to retouch some photos, and one area they wanted me to clean up was the are where the skin has baby oil on it.

I know it'll take awhile, but I'm wondering what techniques you all would be the best. I try to make things look as un-photoshopped as possible. I tried paint brush and adding texture back, but it doesn't look great. Any help would be great

the 2nd photo was one that i cleaned up, it doesn't look great, and I honestly don't even remember how I did it, it was like 3 am and I was doing anything I could

Also the photos were shot with multiple lights with colored gel on them, which is also a b**ch to edit, sometimes.

Thanks

[Fredricktoo]

Re: Baby Oil

there's a Lee Varis tutorial here:
Called Retouching Shiny Skin
http://petapixel.com/2013/10/13/phot...ng-shiny-skin/
it's also on youtube under Lee Varis's name.
It gets quite involved as it teaches the Frequency Separation methods.
it does get rid of shiny skin

[questhero]

Re: Baby Oil

there's a Lee Varis tutorial here:
Called Retouching Shiny Skin
http://petapixel.com/2013/10/13/phot...ng-shiny-skin/
it's also on youtube under Lee Varis's name.
It gets quite involved as it teaches the Frequency Separation methods.
it does get rid of shiny skin

I tried frequency separation first but the highlight area was so large and Blown out that it didn't work for me
but thanks for the video, I'll take a look and see his process. it's probably different from mine and could help

[Fredricktoo]

Re: Baby Oil

Best of luck. I don't envy you that task.