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Adding sweat to skin
Anyone have any tips for adding realistic looking sweat to skin? I have a close up shot of a girls face after a run on the trail and we would like to try to make her look like she had beed working a little harder. A little more grit/sweat. I've been playing around with pulling sweat beads from another shot and adding them to her face, but I'm not happy with the results. Would love some advice from any pros who have tried this before. I would consider my knowledge of photoshop pretty high so hit me with your most advanced techniques. Thanks Sep 05 13 08:35 am Link I didn't check it out, but this was the first item that came up on a google search. http://www.ehow.com/how_5784173_add-swe … oshop.html Sep 05 13 12:29 pm Link Robert Randall wrote: Yeah, I found that one too. Not very helpful for what I'm trying to do. Thanks anyways though. Sep 05 13 12:37 pm Link Sep 05 13 12:38 pm Link I found this one. Might work for you. Also, you may want to try adding a filter on the one you took from another picture. Plastic wrap or stained glass probably your best option. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyM0whG-F44 Sep 05 13 12:45 pm Link Robert Randall wrote: A nice tutorial, but geesh a lot of work. Much easier to apply glycerin and water from the outset though. Sep 05 13 12:49 pm Link You might search for stock images of water drops on glass, such as here. You'll probably have to buy an image to get a usable size. You can put that on a separate layer above your image and experiment with blend modes. Hard light is worth a try. Color doesn't matter because you can clip a hue/sat layer to the drops image to control that. It isn't real easy, but it can be done. Here's a quick and partial illustration of the kind of effect you could achieve (I have no idea what sort of image you're dealing with).  Sep 05 13 06:30 pm Link 
Photographer Posts: 302 MacMurdo - permanent station of the US, Sector claimed by New Zealand, Antarctica I just turn the heat up really high and smile all the time during the shoot. Seems to make them sweat. Sep 05 13 06:35 pm Link This worked well for me: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/phot … ter-drops/ I used this procedure to create the single water droplet on the rose below. Once you've created the water droplets in this procedure, they can be copied and pasted from one image to another.  Sep 05 13 06:55 pm Link ForeverFotos wrote: The hardest part is that she already does have some light sweat from running and getting the extra fake sweat to match the feel of the real sweat is tricky. This is helpful though. Thanks. I'll likely try something similar to this, but maybe use some real water drops from a stock photo for shapes rather than mess with the noise filter stuff since I'd like to try to achieve some drops that look like they are dripping down her face as well. Sep 05 13 07:53 pm Link |
