Delicate Editing wrote:
Hi all,

I'm working on a cool photo at the moment.
The model has quite a lot of shine in her face due to the lighting and makeup and I would like to turn it down a little but not to remove it completely.

I don't like using clone stamp or healing brush on shine very much, and also with d&b it can be very tricky sometimes.

I've seen a tutorial ages ago (but can't find it anymore) where someone used the channels I think, then painted black over the very bright areas. That didn't remove the shine completely but made in blend in a lot better.

Does anyone know hoe this works or has another very good technique to work on shine?

Thanks so much,

Nadine

Personally i do like shine. I don't like the velvet look that some other people love and i respect. Natalia is a fan of velvety skin, you could ask her.

Now, regarding the channels. If you paint black on a channel, you are colorizing the composite. For instance, if you paint black on the red channel, you are only painting cyan on the merge. Now, here's what you can do.

Make a copy of the blue or green channels. That's where most of the skin's  texture is. Use that channel as a new layer and put it on top of your image. You can multiply it or even use it in luminosity mode. After that, the magic happens on the mask and the opacity.

I'm making this up as i type as it would be one of the things i would try.

Dreamscape Creative wrote:
Vearts, are you feathering your selection at all?  I generally find that if you don't, the edges of such adjustments come out a bit too evident.

I usually do. I just love that readjustable Feather Slider in the mask panel. I just love that little feature. Been using it all the time since it become available.

Krunoslav-Stifter wrote:

I usually do. I just love that readjustable Feather Slider in the mask panel. I just love that little feature. Been using it all the time since it become available.

Yeah it's very ueful, before that i would find myself guassian blurring the mask more

Dreamscape Creative wrote:
Vearts, are you feathering your selection at all?  I generally find that if you don't, the edges of such adjustments come out a bit too evident.  Am I incorrect in this particular instance?

Yes I use feather from mask panel because I love to work nondestructively  but for color range it's not the case here.
ex: color range with fuzziness set to 32(which is luminance levels and magic wand with tolerance 32 the same luminance levels) color rage gives you smooth transition the best choice for me here.

If I'm building mask yes I use feather, but for texture I don't use because I prefer sharpness in my details not smoothness.
For this effect I haven't use feather the mask has all the detail that i need and I like to keep it that way.