Hey guys, there's a look that I've been trying to achieve with my retouching but haven't been too successful with it. I don't really know how describe it other than "chalky". Really smooth, but not plastic ... instead looks soft, like chalk dust.
I know the first thing is a good makeup artist. I work with good makeup artists. The look I'm wondering is definitely a photoshop thing.
I've tried by adding a new layer, blending mode set to overlay, filled with 50% neutral gray. Then I use the add noise filter. Depending on the photo, anywhere between 4% and 16%, and then adding a 1 pixel radius gaussian blur. This gets me close. It looks great when zoomed in at 100%, but I zoome out the effect disappears.
A friend of mine recently suggested that I shoot at a higher ISO to get this chalky look. This makes sense, sometimes I'll shoot at ISO 400 because the noise has a slightly softening effect and just looks nice. But sometimes I'm afraid to shoot too high because the higher the ISO the image starts the break down in the shadow areas.
Any thoughts or tips on achieving this look? Thanks!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kskzyuFaS8.../Picture+6.png
I know the first thing is a good makeup artist. I work with good makeup artists. The look I'm wondering is definitely a photoshop thing.
I've tried by adding a new layer, blending mode set to overlay, filled with 50% neutral gray. Then I use the add noise filter. Depending on the photo, anywhere between 4% and 16%, and then adding a 1 pixel radius gaussian blur. This gets me close. It looks great when zoomed in at 100%, but I zoome out the effect disappears.
A friend of mine recently suggested that I shoot at a higher ISO to get this chalky look. This makes sense, sometimes I'll shoot at ISO 400 because the noise has a slightly softening effect and just looks nice. But sometimes I'm afraid to shoot too high because the higher the ISO the image starts the break down in the shadow areas.
Any thoughts or tips on achieving this look? Thanks!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kskzyuFaS8.../Picture+6.png
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