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Retouching Software For High-End Beauty
What software do you recommend most for high-end beauty retouching? Nov 19 15 03:02 am Link No contest Photoshop CS6 or PhotoshopCC. Lightroom is also a big help. Nov 19 15 06:39 am Link Agreed. If you want to achieve professional high end looking images... you have to use the high end professional software. When I started out 9 years ago I was using another software solution...my mentor told me...if I wanted to be a professional... that I would have to invest in professional software. For me Adobe Photoshop CS6 and the newer Creative Cloud Photoshop CC2015 fill that bill. I also use Lightroom for ranking, sorting, base correcting, cropping and delivering great first pass thumbnails to the end-customer for further work in Photoshop. For me...anything less... I consider amateur or hobbyist software...thats where I came from. Ending up with Photoshop is the professional end-game. Nov 19 15 01:24 pm Link Use Photoshop CC2015 and any raw-convertor what you like (Lightroom, Capture One etc.). Nov 23 15 12:48 pm Link This my favorite one http://graphicriver.net/item/ultimate-r … _back=true Dec 23 15 05:54 am Link I use Imagnomics Portraiture a lot, but it only runs as a plug-in to PS so you need that first. It has a plug-in for LR as well, just I cannot stand that program for its incessant and slow cataloging/libraying ... and with me switching between external cards and drives a lot, it is slow and bloats itself up for stuff I no longer feed into it. Portraiture will not run on Corel PSP X8 (Tried too!). Expensive though, but one of the better plug-ins and is pretty quick in operation. Doesn't run by itself though as a stand alone. For effects, onOne and AlienSkin also have some rudimentary portrait corrections within them (i.e. Eye and teeth whitening, skin smoothing, blemishes.), but do better for masking, backgrounds, borders, etc. imho. They can run as a stand alone or operate within PS. Another, if you don't have good handle on make-up, is Reallusion Face Filter 3 Pro. It has the ability to alter physical features like crooked eyes, mouths, nose, etc. and serves as a complete make-up salon as well. It does quite a bit for make-up corrections or additions. You can find it at times for $80 if you hunt down coupons when buying. It runs by itself and not as a plug-in. Bit labor intensive though (Makes you more of a MUAH person!), and not as automatic or quick as others. Good luck. Dec 23 15 07:51 am Link Photoshop CC & Capture One Dec 23 15 01:24 pm Link Konstantin Georgoulis wrote: I would like to ask the moderators of this group to stop this.. this is spam. He is just selling his products here which isn't allowed. Dec 23 15 01:26 pm Link Konstantin Georgoulis wrote: Some of the photos have been seen on the retouching forum used in this promotion. Did the software designer get the proper license to use those images? Dec 24 15 09:20 pm Link The Invisible Touch wrote: Yep - Photoshop and Capture One Pro. Dec 24 15 11:23 pm Link J O H N A L L A N wrote: +1 QFT Such truer words have not been spoken... Dec 26 15 08:13 am Link Thomas Van Dyke wrote: I've heard Photomatix recommended before. Is it significantly superior to HDR Efex Pro? Dec 26 15 10:55 am Link I come from a landscape/wildlife photography/retouching background, and my post processing style is more on the side of image manipulation than it is basic retouching. I like to utilize every ounce of information I can get, so I use two programs for RAW demosaicing. DxO Optics Pro, and PhotoNinja. Most images, I'll just stick with DxO. The main reason I use it over other applications like Lightroom is the noise reduction. There is an algorithm called PRIME which is analyzing pixels on a sub-pixel basis, calculating like regions, and then intelligently averaging based off of those calculations. It's incredibly intensive, and you can't actually preview it when you're editing- You have to export the file and then you can see the effects of PRIME noise reduction. The results the first time I tried it blew me away. I shoot with a D600, so the high ISO noise is already very manageable, but when DxO took an ISO 6400 shot of a Gorilla that was very underexposed and then made it possible for me to completely recover that and reduce the noise to borderline zero while still retaining every single detail in the fur and textures- I was immediately converted. PhotoNinja comes into play when I have a particularly tricky RAW file. One where the highlights are too blown out to be recovered using the RAW information alone. PhotoNinja's advantage is in its demosaicing algorithm. It is incredibly powerful, and has a few tricks up its sleeve in regards to resolution and color rendition. The most notable of reasons comes with highlight recovery. Using an averaging algorithm that is intelligently averaging pixels around the highlights, PhotoNinja "Guesses" what color (and to a lesser degree what texture) the highlights should be once recovered. Because I prefer the noise reduction in DxO, I'll use PhotoNinja to render out the highlights and DxO to render out the rest, and then stack and align the two images (Alignment is necessary due to pixel differences that happen in the demosaicing step) to mask in the highlight regions from PhotoNinja. Other than that, the only other plugins/applications I use are (of course) Photoshop, Topaz Clarity, and two film emulation plugins- DxO Filmpack and Alien Skin Exposure. I like Clarity because it breaks out the different contrast regions into multiple sliders, to give me more fine grain control over tonal contrast of different sizes. Very useful for bringing out details in hair, and also very useful for reducing the effects of lens blur. For skin softening, I find that high pass separation tends to get the job done just right. With it, I see no need for a portrait plugin. Dec 26 15 06:05 pm Link I am not a retoucher and i don't shoot portraits and i am not good in editing or retouching even if i want to try, but the most software i use for all my photography is ......... PHOTOSHOP. I was using some other softwares next to Photoshop even lightroom too, but when i upgraded to CS6 and CC i never look back to anything else, i stopped using Canon software, no lightroom at all, not even Capture One which Phase One keep promoting it as one best software out there but i couldn't find myself with it when i used it as test, Photoshop CC is really a revolutionary for me, it helped me enhancing so many photos even the old ones, and for retouching i really can't see anything better than this, maybe something simpler but not better. Jan 16 16 01:12 pm Link DJ Jarak wrote: #1 Photoshop CC & Lightroom CC #2 Portrait Pro. Jan 16 16 04:24 pm Link Anyone used Portrait Professional 12 or 15? Jan 17 16 07:30 am Link Doug Ross Photographic wrote: In your opinion "after" is better than "before"? Jan 17 16 09:11 am Link You can't talk about high-end retouching (which is what the OP asked about) and portrait pro in the same sentence. Unless you're on MM of course as most of the people that actually do high-end retouching and would point out how ridiculous that is, have long since left by now. There are a few left. Jan 18 16 01:03 am Link I use Lightroom for Camera Raw processing and catalog and then PS for everything else. I used Color Efex pro a couple of years ago but I think it's better for photographers. There are lot of software from NIK and they are very good for retouching too. Jan 18 16 03:46 am Link |
