Photographer

Ivascu Cristina

Posts: 63

Timişoara, Timiş County, Romania

How to achieve this creamy, pale , milky , silky skin tone? help needed. thx in advance! big_smile

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvag25x980tm89p/Linda-Vojtova-for-HM-Fall-2013-Arrivals-Studded-Style-11.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5mxmmjy0fhm0r … i.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n4v395wdv83ko … 6.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x3exzpk8h1n0t … i.jpg?dl=0

Mar 23 15 02:21 pm Link

Photographer

JoshuaBerardi

Posts: 654

Davenport, Iowa, US

When I need this type of milk-like skin I always jump right to pulling out the reds from the skin. I also lighten them as well.

My favorite way of doing this is using a "Hue/Saturation" layer in Photoshop. There you can select the red channel and both lighten and de-saturate the reds. Of course, you have to mask out the skin areas. Do that however works best for the image being worked on.

Mar 25 15 10:00 pm Link

Retoucher

Daniel Meadows

Posts: 794

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Honestly it depends on your starting point. It might be as simple as pulling black from the reds in selective colour if they're in the right range, if not there are plenty of ways to do it, it's just about having the right shots to do it to.

Do you have a shoot you're currently working towards this look for? Happy to take a look if you want to post what you've got.

Mar 26 15 07:54 pm Link

Digital Artist

Joe Diamond

Posts: 415

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Even if someone explain how he did to his own photos, this probably wont apply to yours. The best way is you to play around with gradients, curves, selective colors and learned them very well so you will know every tool action. Gradients arent a trick, people play around with them as how this retoucher did.

Hope it helps

Mar 26 15 09:47 pm Link

Retoucher

Patrick Golez

Posts: 50

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

A simple trick is to put a black and white adjusment layer then put on screen and then play with the opacity & blend if options to remove the layer from affecting the black/shadows.

Mar 27 15 03:19 am Link

Photographer

Ivascu Cristina

Posts: 63

Timişoara, Timiş County, Romania

i don`t want the same.. just i love that skin tone and wanted to know if there is another way other then reds from saturation.. that was my way to try it. thank you for responses big_smile

Mar 27 15 06:02 am Link

Photographer

Ivascu Cristina

Posts: 63

Timişoara, Timiş County, Romania

as for gradients i use them alot also and play with them smile


https://www.dropbox.com/s/h72oqo30kang0 … 6.tif?dl=0

does the background matter? since i saw most of the pics like this on light colors. i`m curious most for lookbook shoots.

Mar 27 15 06:05 am Link

Digital Artist

Ana-Maria Nedelea

Posts: 120

Oneşti, Bacău, Romania

Mar 28 15 05:18 am Link