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Looking for the best plug-in or way to smooth skin
I do alot of wedding and modeling portfolios and looking for the best way to save time and headaches in smoothing different skin textures. Your help appreciated Dec 20 06 08:32 pm Link mrlouis wrote: Buy a book on PS, that is the best way! Dec 20 06 08:35 pm Link There are a million books on Photoshop retouching tricks....go to Barnes & Noble or Borders and you will have at least 30 to pick from. Take that you learn and tweek it to get the look you are wanting Dec 20 06 08:37 pm Link There are even books specific for Wedding and Portrait so you will find what you need at one of those places Dec 20 06 08:38 pm Link 2 words..... Katrin Eismann. She's got quite a number of PS books out there, best author on the subject. Dec 20 06 08:40 pm Link It's hard for me to fathom the use of plugins in this regard. Every skin tone, every texture, every set of blemishes, reflectivity of light, etc., .. it's all different from person to person. Seems like a plugin or action for a standardized workflow would hobble you. May as well just set your camera parameters for some happy, warm, saturated, blurred average and leave it at that. Then blast away and avoid post processing as much as possible. Dec 20 06 08:45 pm Link Click Hamilton wrote: Where's my rubber stamp? Dec 20 06 08:48 pm Link OK, maybe this one will help you: Go to the bookstore and flip through Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CSx Bruce Fraser gets into lots of good ways for speeding workflow. As he says on the cover: "process hundreds or thousands of images efficiently" Dec 20 06 08:49 pm Link hire a mua Dec 20 06 08:50 pm Link FaceReality wrote: What's that? Dec 20 06 09:59 pm Link Kodax Digital Gem Airbrush Pro... nuff said... R Dec 20 06 10:02 pm Link there are many, some are beter than others , some are cheap. google photoshop plugins try a couple , the simplest ones to use do NOT get the best results. use the one you like, not the one that someone tells you you should use. Dec 20 06 10:10 pm Link Kodak has it... http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi … 16.9&lc=en Make sure to get the action mentioned on that page also. Set it to where you like it and then save that setting as a default. Then all you have to do is run the ASF action. I prefer to run it on a duplicate image, then drag that over the original and reduce the layer opacity to taste. It could tend to look a little too plastic-ly. i don't use it everyday... but when needed with really bad complexions. it doesn't replace the stamp or healing patch. Your best to find some classes put on by professional retouchers. Good luck. Dec 20 06 10:11 pm Link |
