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Can anybody tel how to retouching this skin effect
Hello Everyone,Very love this skin effect. I try many many times,but can't do this skin tone. Can anybody tell how to do,If have vedio I very appreciate it. Thanks all. http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj16 … be8aa3.jpg And here is the RAW files http://www.mediafire.com/download/sna22 … G_5359.CR2 Jul 16 14 07:58 pm Link Frank Neo wrote: I'm not an expert, but you can achieve that with separation and some doge/burn. afterwards, you tune the color tones.. Jul 16 14 08:30 pm Link International2014 wrote: Yes,I can do separation and D&B,just can't change skin tone like that. Jul 16 14 10:17 pm Link Frank Neo wrote: Your portfolio tels me the opposite. It's exactly the same what you did here. Jul 16 14 11:17 pm Link Tulack wrote: Sorry,I still can't do it ,not the same way to change skin tone. Jul 17 14 12:28 am Link Frank Neo wrote: Tried split toning to start? Jul 17 14 02:16 am Link I highly doubt the water on the image you referred to is real. So split tonning won't work in your case as the water range contains skin range so it will become yellow too. Try selective color\color balance. Though I don't understand what you need to do with the skin and what kind of effect are you talking about. Besides strange D&B on her legs and overall orange\yellow tint of the skin. You know you could just pain the color on the "color" mode layer, (blur it a bit, contain it with a mask) and turn down opacity. If that's what you were asking about. Jul 17 14 02:49 am Link International2014 wrote: yes,I tried many times Jul 17 14 04:04 am Link I have already made couple of posts on similar threads about this very basic color grading which is "very popular" on MM forum , because everyone asks the same thing everyday. Main trick for this is to open new blank layer and to fill that layer with 100% opacity of some medium darken or dark brown color from color pallete. Just try couple of time with different brown colors because each file is unique for color grading, you can not apply same effects on each file . Then - on that same layer change blending mode from normal to soft light ( sometimes you can try and with overlay, it depends what you like, personally I prefer soft light blending mode, I think it it better for skin, overlay is more for nature or architectural images) , and then play with opacity until you are satisfied with results. This trick will give you that brownish effects on skin . Also sometimes it is necessary to apply layer mask on that layer and to paint later these effects on different parts of the image with different opacity of brush( it depends from file to file, like I wrote above each file is unique for color grading) . Also sometimes you will get with these steps maybe lil bit over saturated skin color ( it depends from your original file) but change saturation on file with new adjustment layer so you can later make fine tuning on that layer. Later with new adjustment curve layer choose blue curves and move blue curve lil bit up just to give that blue color feel. With this step it is possible sometimes to loose lil bit contrast but don't worry. Also fine tuning you can finish with selective color tool ,choose blue colors and make fine tuning on water until you are satisfied with results, and also if is necessary choose neutral colors later and play with black . Last step if is necessary RGB curves again and add very gently linear contrast to bring back contrast which you lost with blue curves step . Also you can add sometimes and gently photo filter with warm or cold colors but very very gently. Before all these steps be sure that you don't have color cast on file and that your file has not some very dark tones and high contrast( simply try to start from neutral file). Also be sure that you have nice water or sky on file - if you have problematic water or sky with over exposed image and without details you have to make composite image to replace water or sky otherwise it won't work. It is a very basic color grading and this effect has nothing to do with D&B retouching steps which you use for skin retouching. And this simple color grading has nothing to do with "expensive production" with team of 30 people on set , with top professional models etc which "some people on forum" give you advises how to make that look ( I don't speak about this thread , I speak about similar threads) When they don't know how to make that look and to give you steps, they usually write similar things about some "very expensive imaginary shooting and post production". Just play with steps which I wrote you , find proper brown color and that's it. You have nice work and I am sure you will find with these steps what you are looking for. Hope this helped, Best, ST Jul 17 14 04:19 am Link Frank Neo wrote: Are you perhaps trying to change the color of the skin, and not the skin tone? Jul 17 14 05:51 am Link The easiest possible way is to just ask the retoucher how he did it, it takes away the guessing work. Why don't you just ask him? https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thre … st19005694 His MM profile: https://www.modelmayhem.com/manuelschiffler Jul 21 14 11:38 pm Link |