Natalia_Taffarel wrote:
To get something like this http://jasonchristopher.com/blog/wp-con … d-lips.jpg

you'd need to render the lips completely.

You can add a bit of shine to them, make them smoother and a bit glossy, but you won't get perfect glossy and lustreous lips from that without re drawing the lips.

Just my two cents

x

How about getting something inbetween?

Natalia_Taffarel wrote:
To get something like this http://jasonchristopher.com/blog/wp-con … d-lips.jpg

you'd need to render the lips completely.

You can add a bit of shine to them, make them smoother and a bit glossy, but you won't get perfect glossy and lustreous lips from that without re drawing the lips.

Just my two cents

x

I once saw a free Internet tutorial about how to make super glossy, vinyl-like lip shining like this.

Now I can't find it.


My own thought would be to use the posterize function to find the two levels of shine you see in this sample.




If you remove the two areas of pure white shine, and the three stripes of 50% low contrast shine, then what you have left is flat, oversaturated lips with skin detail.

So that would be the other step ... paint or oversaturate the lipstick color.

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Another trick on lots of teeth is to use the desaturation tool (third tool under the burn/dodge tool) to remove all color, particularly yellow.

Then use the brightness tool, or levels, and make them bright.

This will give a nice clean porcelain look, without losing detail by blowing them out.


The original sample in the opening post looks like the teeth are already desaturated, so they only need to be brightened up by several levels.

Ümar wrote:
How about getting something inbetween?

I was playing with these lips last night. It's nothing special, but it's good enough for some discussion in this thread.




The steps involved were these:

1. Image>Adjustments>Selective Colors> pull the cyan slider to the left to "flush" the lips

2. On a layer, over-sharpen with Unsharp Mask (250,1,0),  cover with a mask and brush through the mask to reveal sharpened sparkles. Double click the thumbnail and blend to taste.

3. To contrast the detail and sharpness of the lips, I softened the skin with a Dust & Scratch layer (15), then blended back to 50% to bring back some skin pore and peach fuzz detail.

4. The teeth were already naturally clean and bright

5. I added the words with the burn tool


Similar sequence for these:



(again, rough sample, overcompressed by pbase too many times over the years, but good enough for discussion)

Ümar wrote:
Photoshop mavericks and experts. Can any one of you show how you can make the following lips glossy and lustreous along with directions. Please post the before and after of you work. Thanks a bunch in advance.

Try these steps:

Create a new layer set the blend mode to soft light and paint black over the lips adjust the opacity to taste.

Duplicate a merged layer and run the plastic wrap filter on it then add a hide all mask and paint the lips back in with white could have made a selection but hey brushing is easy.

Set layer to blend mode such as overlay or softlight or yada or yada experiment its fun and adjust opacity to taste again.

done...

Click Hamilton wrote:
Ümar, I think the sample you started with needs a major makeover, which means you need to do some artistic sketching with a stylus, maybe reshaping with liquify, and reconstruct the entire photo and redo with "digital makeup" techniques.

There is lots of material to work with, but it's a challenge and time consuming exercise. The result would look nothing like the picture we start with.

This is not a photo for a few layer adjustments or filters, other than to subdue them.

This is a photo to take apart and reconstruct into something it isn't.

Thank you. Appreciate your feedback and the others who took a moment to reply

MagicMirrorFoto wrote:

Not bad!

KKP Retouching wrote:
This is why it's worlds easier to get it halfway decent in-camera... hire a MUA next time.  Or, at the very least, get the model to use chapstick for a few days before the shoot, and drink lots of water.

That's one of those unhelpful posts that we were ranting about the other day. I'm shocked, yes shocked that it came from a PW (instead of a photographer) this time.

Although I'm not saying hiring someone isn't the answer, I just don't see how a MUA is going to make those lips any glossier - without getting your screen all goopy.

If you're having trouble seeing the differences between the lips you've posted and the lips Click put up, probably something like Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain would be more helpful than a simple tutorial.

You need to study what shiny things look like, and why they shine where and how they do. Or hire someone who has.

I'm not going to pretend that I threw this together in 2 minutes, but a few more minutes would certainly have made it look better; I just ran out of goof-off time.

ezpkns retouching wrote:
You need to study what shiny things look like, and why they shine where and how they do. Or hire someone who has.

I'm not going to pretend that I threw this together in 2 minutes, but a few more minutes would certainly have made it look better; I just ran out of goof-off time.

Haha .. you reminded me of another possibility.

This one REALLY was a 2 minute edit




(i.e. cut/paste from your favorite lip clip folder)

Cristina M Beller wrote:
Natalia is right you will have to completely render the lips. So if you have a decent painting hand, take a stab at it
here's a quick example I threw together. Obviously if you spend more time on it it will look better

ooooh!
nice

:::right click save::: lol

Click Hamilton wrote:

Haha .. you reminded me of another possibility.

This one REALLY was a 2 minute edit




(i.e. cut/paste from your favorite lip clip folder)

That was my first idea, but I knew at least you would spot it right away...