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Can anyone recommend a plugin for either Lightroom or Photoshop that is good for smooth skin and taking sheen off it etc.... Must work as a plugin rather than a standalone programme.
Very professional!Can I suggest that you learn how to it properly in Photoshop rather than rely on plug-ins?
Love these - thanksCan I suggest that you learn how to it properly in Photoshop rather than rely on plug-ins?
Here are two retouching tutorials from my course. There are previous lessons that deal with layers, and I always teach my students to edit in a non-destructive way in layers, so some of the previous stuff is missing (I'll assume you know how to use layers). The images are stock, or taken off the net.. which in an educational context, is absolutely fine... however, broadcasting the tutorials on here with copyrighted imagery is a LITTLE naughty, but if I had designed these to be on the net I'd just use my own imagery. The text in red will mean nothing to you, and is intended for the BA students to complete weekly tasks. You can ignore it. These are also intended to be used in a classroom environment where I am also giving walkthrough demos on screen... so as a stand alone.. some things may require some experimentation and trial and error. You'll also not have access to the source images.
Without a well lit image to work with though... no amount of retouching will be completely successful.
However... plug ins are a blunt tool whereas doing it yourself in PS is a scalpel.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23953768/Week 17 - Believable Retouching.pdf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23953768/Week 18 - Frequency Separation Retouching.pdf
+1 for this also their noise reduction software is fantastic i bought mine as a bundle.another one worth looking at that is very good is imagenomic portraiture
https://www.imagenomic.com/pt.aspx
Can I suggest that you learn how to it properly in Photoshop rather than rely on plug-ins?
Here are two retouching tutorials from my course. ]
Nicely presented tutorials, easy to understand .
Can I suggest that you learn how to it properly in Photoshop rather than rely on plug-ins?
Here are two retouching tutorials from my course. There are previous lessons that deal with layers, and I always teach my students to edit in a non-destructive way in layers, so some of the previous stuff is missing (I'll assume you know how to use layers). The images are stock, or taken off the net.. which in an educational context, is absolutely fine... however, broadcasting the tutorials on here with copyrighted imagery is a LITTLE naughty, but if I had designed these to be on the net I'd just use my own imagery [edit - actually.. they'd be videos too]. The text in red will mean nothing to you, and is intended for the BA students to complete weekly tasks. You can ignore it. These are also intended to be used in a classroom environment where I am also giving walkthrough demos on screen... so as a stand alone.. some things may require some experimentation and trial and error. You'll also not have access to the source images.
Without a well lit image to work with though... no amount of retouching will be completely successful.
However... plug ins are a blunt tool whereas doing it yourself in PS is a scalpel.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23953768/Week 17 - Believable Retouching.pdf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23953768/Week 18 - Frequency Separation Retouching.pdf
Can I suggest that you learn how to it properly in Photoshop rather than rely on plug-ins?
Here are two retouching tutorials from my course. There are previous lessons that deal with layers, and I always teach my students to edit in a non-destructive way in layers, so some of the previous stuff is missing (I'll assume you know how to use layers). The images are stock, or taken off the net.. which in an educational context, is absolutely fine... however, broadcasting the tutorials on here with copyrighted imagery is a LITTLE naughty, but if I had designed these to be on the net I'd just use my own imagery [edit - actually.. they'd be videos too]. The text in red will mean nothing to you, and is intended for the BA students to complete weekly tasks. You can ignore it. These are also intended to be used in a classroom environment where I am also giving walkthrough demos on screen... so as a stand alone.. some things may require some experimentation and trial and error. You'll also not have access to the source images.
Without a well lit image to work with though... no amount of retouching will be completely successful.
However... plug ins are a blunt tool whereas doing it yourself in PS is a scalpel.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23953768/Week 17 - Believable Retouching.pdf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23953768/Week 18 - Frequency Separation Retouching.pdf
My skin processing has been woefully inconsistent until very recently. I've tried a few tools and wish I'd just spent the time learning to do it in PS in the first place - frequency separation is not that hard, especially if you create an action to create the relevant layers.
The other thing I would recommend is looking at a couple of videos about makeup... yes, really! Watch how MUAs apply their own versions of dodge & burn to a face and why... it's a very useful foundation (badoom tish!) to what we then build on top digitally.
Got any recommendations?
I haven't a chance to look at David's articles (which I suspect are head & shoulders better than your average youtube video on the same topic).