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Hi I would love to know how best to do this. Having watched several You tubes. Having tried Byro technique, just seemed to blur( I may well have done it wrong!) Any advice or links would be appreciated. Is micro D& B possible? https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7759o8km6bxdhp/skin.png?dl=0 Cheers Gary Mar 13 16 10:26 am Link rawretouch wrote: I don't know what % this arm is of the whole image, but, if is a small %, as I suspect, I would blur out the blotchiness, (especially at the edges of the different tones), and add a smaller size "noise", in Photoshop, along with my very light noise blurring techniques. Mar 13 16 10:38 am Link It is not blotchy skin, it is banding of the skin due to increased contrast on an area with insufficient levels data. That's why it looks 'blotchy' (actually stepped in irregular zones). It is not skin structure any more but what you are seeing is just the leftovers of it. (zoom at 200-300% and you will see what I mean). http://snag.gy/1B1nk.jpg This often happens if you have tried to bump the contrast on a compressed 8-bit image. Now that you know the actual problem - you can't really do much if the source data is not there. You can try to hide the problem by reducing the contrast (darker highlights) but it will always be without real structure. In any case don't try any smoothing technique - it will make it look even worse. The data just isn't there. Mar 13 16 04:43 pm Link Ok thanks guys for looking into this. Mar 14 16 02:03 am Link |
