cleaning up a models face

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Nony Buz
Jun 3, 2004
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I have been playing with photoshop for a while now, but never had to do any serious touch up work. I have an image of a mohter and daughter. The mothers skin looks nice and smooth, after using the healing brush and cloning stamp tool I have removed all the acne, but the daughters skin still looks like it is sort of bumpy. How do I smooth it out?

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Jun 3, 2004
Nony Buz wrote:
I have been playing with photoshop for a while now, but never had to do any serious touch up work. I have an image of a mohter and daughter. The mothers skin looks nice and smooth, after using the healing brush and cloning stamp tool I have removed all the acne, but the daughters skin still looks like it is sort of bumpy. How do I smooth it out?
I would suggest blurring the photo with gaussian blur, creating a layer mask for the layer of their image, change to brush tool and set opacity low. make sure that brush color is white and then start painting only on skin areas that you want to soften.



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Harold Morgan
Jun 4, 2004
An excellent face lift technique would be to make a copy of the image and blur it intill all blemishes are gone. It should look almost unrecognizable. Then use the history brush to paint this smoothed skin onto any trouble spots on the daughter.

"Nony Buz" wrote in message
I have been playing with photoshop for a while now, but never had to do any serious touch up work. I have an image of a mohter and daughter. The mothers skin looks nice and smooth, after using the healing brush and cloning stamp tool I have removed all the acne, but the daughters skin still looks like it is sort of bumpy. How do I smooth it out?
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Stephan
Jun 4, 2004
"Harold Morgan" wrote in message
An excellent face lift technique would be to make a copy of the image and blur it intill all blemishes are gone. It should look almost
unrecognizable.
Then use the history brush to paint this smoothed skin onto any trouble spots on the daughter.
I’d love to see an example.
Everything I have seen so far involving Blur and History brush to fish out details looks terrible.,

Stephan
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Stephan
Jun 4, 2004
"Nony Buz" wrote in message
I have been playing with photoshop for a while now, but never had to do any serious touch up work. I have an image of a mohter and daughter. The mothers skin looks nice and smooth, after using the healing brush and cloning stamp tool I have removed all the acne, but the daughters skin still looks like it is sort of bumpy. How do I smooth it out?

You will have to enlarge by a lot and work bump by bump. Set your clone tool lighten at a low setting (30% ?)and after choosing carefully your source work the shadows of the bumps.
After that set your clone tool on darken and work the highlights. This works great on wrinkles, bumps should be about the same. It will take time but if you want a good result you will have to sweat a bit.

Stephan
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Erik.D
Jun 4, 2004
"Stephan" wrote in message
"Harold Morgan" wrote in message
An excellent face lift technique would be to make a copy of the image
and
blur it intill all blemishes are gone. It should look almost
unrecognizable.
Then use the history brush to paint this smoothed skin onto any trouble spots on the daughter.
I’d love to see an example.
Everything I have seen so far involving Blur and History brush to fish out details looks terrible.,

Stephan
How about this one then. I did not use gaussian blurr or the history brush. I used the clone stamp to remove the worst of the acne and other imperfections and then I used Clearskin

Yes, I have seen faces look a bit more natural, but the girl was extremely happy with it
The original
http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/source.jpg
The result
http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/source.jpg

Actually, even if I do not use Clearskin, I don’t use Gaussian and History Brush but usually Median Noise with a mask and then blend the layers, after I clean up most of the mess with the clone stamp.

I know the ‘bumpy skin’ sundrome. Usually this is because the individual stamps of the clone stamp remain visible. solutions: softer brush, or finish it off with the healing brush
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Erik.D
Jun 4, 2004
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Brian K
Jun 4, 2004
This isn’t my original work but a summary of several articles.

"SMOOTHING FACE

Save as. Keep saving.

Duplicate background and call it "Work".

Quick Mask on eyes, lips, eyebrows & jewellery. Feather 2 pixels. Save selection, call it "detail". Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V. Name layer "detail". Selection deselects itself. Detail remains the top layer. Can be edited later if not accurate (from Background). Make sure it’s lined up with "Work". Opacity can be adjusted at finish. Don’t need layer masks now. (Layer mask technique in bracks)

Click "Work" layer.

With magnetic lasso select all the skin you want to smooth. Face, neck, hands if near face. ? hide selection edges.

Copy Work layer and use Healing brush for wrinkles. Align unticked. Dodge tool <50% to lighten areas, eg red nose. Reduce opacity of this Work Copy layer to show slight wrinkles. Merge down.

Feather 2 pixels.

Save selection, call it "face", Deselect.

Ctrl click on RGB channel

Work layer on Layer palette

Ctrl-C

Ctrl-V

Filter, Noise, Despeckle.

Load inverted "face" selection. Press Delete. Deselect.

(Layer mask and paint with black airbrush (soft 50%): eyes, lips, eyebrows, jewellery.) Merge down.

Ctrl click on RGB channel

Work layer on Layer palette

Ctrl-C

Ctrl-V

Filter, blur, Gaussian blur, radius 5. Normal or Screen mode. Set History brush to this state.

Load inverted "face" selection. Press Delete. Deselect.

(Layer mask and paint with black airbrush (soft 50%): eyes, lips, eyebrows, jewellery.)

Reduce opacity to 30 – 50%.

Below will increase the blur so don’t overdo the blur in previous paragraph.

Copy this layer, mode Overlay (Colour Burn if Overlay is too light), % slider.

Can try Inner/ Outer Glow on Layer 1

Save as .PSD

Flatten, duplicate layer. Unshapen mask, % slider maybe. Layer mask maybe. Flatten.

Save for Web"

Brian

"Nony Buz" wrote in message
I have been playing with photoshop for a while now, but never had to do any serious touch up work. I have an image of a mohter and daughter. The mothers skin looks nice and smooth, after using the healing brush and cloning stamp tool I have removed all the acne, but the daughters skin still looks like it is sort of bumpy. How do I smooth it out?
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nospam
Jun 4, 2004
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:09:09 +0200, "E.D."
wrote (with possible editing):

….snip

How about this one then. I did not use gaussian blurr or the history brush. I used the clone stamp to remove the worst of the acne and other imperfections and then I used Clearskin

What is "Clearskin"? Thanks,


Larry
Email to rapp at lmr dot com
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Erik.D
Jun 4, 2004
"L. M. Rappaport" wrote in message
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:09:09 +0200, "E.D."
wrote (with possible editing):

…snip

How about this one then. I did not use gaussian blurr or the history
brush.
I used the clone stamp to remove the worst of the acne and other imperfections and then I used Clearskin

What is "Clearskin"? Thanks,


Larry
Email to rapp at lmr dot com
It is a free program from mediachance that cleans up skin. It is also referred to as Cleanskin. Downloadable at
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/cleanskin.htm
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no_email
Jun 4, 2004
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:09:09 +0200, "E.D."
wrote:
snip
The original
http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/source.jpg
The result
http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/source.jpg

snip

Am I missing something here?

Smeltsmoke
FZ
Fred Zafran
Jun 4, 2004
Once you go through basic workflow to adjust levels, curves, color balance etc., I would then apply background noise reduction using Neatimage (http://www.neatimage.net/) and see how far this gets you. This is a fine product and I have found it to be extremely useful. Download the trial version and check it out.

"Nony Buz" wrote in message
I have been playing with photoshop for a while now, but never had to do any serious touch up work. I have an image of a mohter and daughter. The mothers skin looks nice and smooth, after using the healing brush and cloning stamp tool I have removed all the acne, but the daughters skin still looks like it is sort of bumpy. How do I smooth it out?
ED
Erik.D
Jun 4, 2004
"ZONED!" wrote in message
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:09:09 +0200, "E.D."
wrote:
snip
The original
http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/source.jpg
The result
http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/source.jpg

snip

Am I missing something here?

Smeltsmoke

yes, you are missing something. The correction that I posted: http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/smooth.jpg

By the way: prohosting seems to have some trouble being linked from google. In that case, just paste the link in your browser
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cantexadian
Jun 5, 2004
"Nony Buz" wrote in message
I have been playing with photoshop for a while now, but never had to do any serious touch up work. I have an image of a mohter and daughter. The mothers skin looks nice and smooth, after using the healing brush and cloning stamp tool I have removed all the acne, but the daughters skin still looks like it is sort of bumpy. How do I smooth it out?

One technique is to look at the individual channels. Lots of times, the worst of the blemishes are in the Red channel. You can blur just the offending areas.
Very light touch, but most times, that is what you want anyway. nikki
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no_email
Jun 5, 2004
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:34:21 +0200, "E.D."
wrote:

"ZONED!" wrote in message
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:09:09 +0200, "E.D."
wrote:
snip
The original
http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/source.jpg
The result
http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/source.jpg

snip

Am I missing something here?

Smeltsmoke

yes, you are missing something. The correction that I posted: http://fire.prohosting.com/haslum/smooth.jpg

By the way: prohosting seems to have some trouble being linked from google. In that case, just paste the link in your browser

Yes I saw that after I posted. I am not used to reading into new threads for corrections or replies. In the other group(s) I watch, most generallly keep threads in one peice for clarity.

Smeltsmoke
JF
Jamie Ferguson
Jun 10, 2004
"Fred Zafran" wrote in news:BrCdne4bQamBRl3dRVn- :


NeatImage is a great package for cleaning up skin, there is a nice preset for you can find by doing a search on the net for "Neat Image Skin Softening" I find it works wonderfully.

J

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