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Retoucher

Frank Neo

Posts: 280

Argyle, Florida, US

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

Photographer

International2014

Posts: 97

Ashburn, Virginia, US

Frank Neo wrote:
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

I'm not an expert, but you can achieve that with separation and some doge/burn. afterwards, you tune the color tones..

It's time consuming work to be done right, but the results are outstanding. Amazing photo btw.

Jul 16 14 08:30 pm Link

Retoucher

Frank Neo

Posts: 280

Argyle, Florida, US

International2014 wrote:

I'm not an expert, but you can achieve that with separation and some doge/burn. afterwards, you tune the color tones..

It's time consuming work to be done right, but the results are outstanding. Amazing photo btw.

Yes,I can do separation and D&B,just can't change skin tone like that.
Also,Thank you for your suggestion.

Jul 16 14 10:17 pm Link

Photographer

Tulack

Posts: 836

Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

Frank Neo wrote:
just can't change skin tone like that.

Your portfolio tels me the opposite. It's exactly the same what you did here.

https://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/140327/05/53341e4d66763.jpg

Jul 16 14 11:17 pm Link

Retoucher

Frank Neo

Posts: 280

Argyle, Florida, US

Tulack wrote:

Your portfolio tels me the opposite. It's exactly the same what you did here.

https://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/140327/05/53341e4d66763.jpg

Sorry,I still can't do it ,not the same way to change skin tone.
Thank you for your suggestion:)

Jul 17 14 12:28 am Link

Photographer

International2014

Posts: 97

Ashburn, Virginia, US

Frank Neo wrote:

Sorry,I still can't do it ,not the same way to change skin tone.
Thank you for your suggestion:)

Tried split toning to start?

Jul 17 14 02:16 am Link

Retoucher

GrishaSevel

Posts: 42

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

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

Retoucher

Frank Neo

Posts: 280

Argyle, Florida, US

International2014 wrote:

Tried split toning to start?

yes,I tried many times smile

Jul 17 14 04:04 am Link

Retoucher

ST Retouch

Posts: 393

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

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

Photographer

Jakov Markovic

Posts: 1128

Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia

Frank Neo wrote:
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

Are you perhaps trying to change the color of the skin, and not the skin tone?

Select it and use curves on individual channels? smile

Jul 17 14 05:51 am Link

Retoucher

D A N

Posts: 124

Jacksonville, Florida, US

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