[C&C] First try at airbrushing...

Fenster

I kept it light as I'm not a paticular fan of it, but I figure it's a process I need to know, eh?

Morlar

Do you mean the clone brush tool ? Guy Gowan had a good way of doing that skin smoothing involving a red channel mask (dont have cs in front of me at the mo) but someone else is bound to. I think that one looks a fraction artificial in the area around the white reflection going from the hairline to the eyebrow but its generally not that noticeable imo.

Fenster

Nope, I used this howto.

Spyral

maybe a before and after ?

Morlar

Fenster wrote:

Nope, I used this howto.

muchos gracias.

Fenster

Here's the original:

Roen

(off the top of my head)
While Gaussian blur is fine in a case like this, try use Median instead, especially if the image contains high contrast areas.

The PP is grand, not aggressive at all. While the hack job the guy in the thread you learned from did was, shall we say, without restraint. Good job!

That's a nice tutorial,very easy to follow.I made myself look half good for once :eek: That looks alright to me.The skin is so much smoother and the colour of the skin is a lot more appealing.

Oriel

I don't see any brusing at all, I'm afraid, well, very little, mainly just a tone change.

Fionn

thats quite good, bit yellow biased tho! is it

i've a filter from kodak that does something similar digital gem or something it's called, I sometimes use it in conjunction with a glow filter for a blushing bride/glam shot - works pretty good and is fast.

Sebzy

Use gem too for studio shots which need a lot of work.

Just an example took about 3 minutes to prep

Fenster

Gem? Is that a tool?

Nice work at any rate, Seb.

Fionn, Oriel: That's the tone of natural lighting, firstly, and secondly, warmer tones have always suited my wife better. I tried some cooler ones, but didn't really like the result as opposed to more yellow.

I also found and tried a set of Lightroom presets designed to fix 30D white balance, which is incredibly handy when shooting in jpeg.

Sebzy

Fenster wrote:

Gem? Is that a tool?

Yep

kodak Digital GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In for Photoshop CS2 only
http://asf.com/products/plugins/airpro/pluginAIRPRO/

It costs about €75

mikeanywhere

Fenster wrote:

Nice work at any rate, Seb.

I have to agree!!

Fionn

i'd prefer the not so yellow tone, yes Digital Gem is a good filter - saves lots of time, in the past i've even used neat image to achieve similar results with a judicious use of the fade slider