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rinaldosata photography

Posts: 19

London, England, United Kingdom

Dear all,
How can I smooth her skin out? (without gaussian blur that looks so fake)
uniform the color and take of the shadow and bright point?

Any good dodge and burn tutorial for skin?to give a natural but perfrect effect?

SOS  hmm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ltixnvwj48oju … 8.NEF?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jfsyiwa4kxa8 … 4.NEF?dl=0

Dec 02 14 05:53 pm Link

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ulianaeme

Posts: 94

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dec 02 14 06:04 pm Link

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Greg K Retouching

Posts: 407

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

The Frequency Split is probably not going to work on all the forehead bumps.

I really would recommend just being patient with the Dodge/Burn.

I like the Curves method:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CsyS2Gd9lY

Some people like the 50% Gray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ftpsP4UZHQ

As a last resort, you can go very small with the Healing Brush Tool in FS on High. Just, you know, in moderation.

Dec 02 14 06:57 pm Link

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Carl Herbert

Posts: 387

Bellevue, Washington, US

You will have to do some texture grafting as well.

http://youtu.be/_1Z6Ht3egf0?list=UUCdPu … W3pCfHcoTA

Dec 02 14 07:47 pm Link

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Leonard Gee Photography

Posts: 18096

Sacramento, California, US

didn't you learn anything from the first post?

https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=936782

Dec 02 14 07:52 pm Link

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ulianaeme

Posts: 94

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

GK Retouching wrote:
The Frequency Split is probably not going to work on all the forehead bumps.

I really would recommend just being patient with the Dodge/Burn.

I like the Curves method:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CsyS2Gd9lY

Some people like the 50% Gray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ftpsP4UZHQ

As a last resort, you can go very small with the Healing Brush Tool in FS on High. Just, you know, in moderation.

You r right!  I could not look at the photos for some reason and just made a quick guess what that could be.

Dec 02 14 08:03 pm Link

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Greg K Retouching

Posts: 407

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

ulianaeme wrote:

You r right!  I could not look at the photos for some reason and just made a quick guess what that could be.

I played around with it, and it helped. Sorry if it seemed like I was saying it wasn't a good technique. Meant to imply some other things would be good in addition to. It's going to take a lot of work. tongue

Dec 02 14 08:10 pm Link

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SD Retouch

Posts: 66

Chapeltown, England, United Kingdom

If you looking for https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tgkf7qu4ne6q … 0.png?dl=0 effect.You need to master Dodge and Burn.And when you play with few days, it's not difficult to get this look.

Dec 03 14 10:14 am Link

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MC Seoul Photography

Posts: 469

Seoul, Seoul, Korea (South)

Since you uploaded originals and not some sample jpgs, i can only assume you don't mind if someone plays with them (if you do, let me know I'll take them down straight away)

This is using delicious skin (thread is in this forum) which I just bought yesterday and then a technique I got from cavlin hollywood's dvd on skin smoothing. One is just delicious skin, the second includes his technique which helps smooth color transitions.

This is with DS only:
http://i.imgur.com/hn4cNwU.jpg

This is with a light smattering of the CH skin smooth
http://i.imgur.com/13EFpjm.jpg

I didn't do anything else except brighten it. This took about 5 minutes, so I really didn't fine tune it, just to give you an idea. if this is the kind of thing you're going for I'd start with those and then dodge and burn to taste.

Dec 11 14 10:07 pm Link