People can scratch to find the automatic AI holy grille of one-touch, realistic, high-ended skin retaching, but when you like it from my cold, dead Vacom tablet, you can have my dodge and burn technology.
Di, this is not the right tool for every project, and yes, it takes time, but if you want unacceptable quality, this dinosaur of techniques is still the way to go.
And don’t take it to me, a traveling photographer – you will hear the same in the online directive video, such as August Deraning, Pratik Naik, Michael Volocinovicz, or Catreen Ezman, Senior Product Manager, Photography in Digital Imaging and Adobe Achievements,
I mean, this is not something I will do for a snapshot, such as people I play golf, they are going to go on Instagram. This is actually a technique where you are going to see the face, such as at a point of purchasing at the cosmetics counter or in full-spread advertisements, where you like, ‘Wow, it’s beautiful skin.’
skin deep
Dodge and burn method have many advantages. Mainly, it releases the texture of the skin, so it looks natural and, when done properly, is undesirable. “We can identify bad retaching very quickly,” said Isaman. “We try to secret the image, like a little bunny rabbit, and you don’t want to notice the rabbit that is coming on you. It is very challenging to identify good retaching because we are not going to recognize it. ,
You must be thinking, “Yes! I can do this with frequency separation in two minutes. “While frequency separation is useful and important, it has a very easy-to-spot look. “Because the frequency used frequency separation looks to people as they have an orange skin,” said Isman.
For a beginning, you need to achieve high-devotional commercial work, aesthetic work and boundaries to achieve the level of subtlety and burn levels. It takes more time, but you are paid for your time, right? Bonus- This pixel will confuse the peepper.
First of all, save face
You have to prepare a photo with a cleaning layer. “Recovers, before they dodge and burn, get rid of big blamish – that the grain we don’t want to talk about, but always show the days of a photo shoot,” says Isman.
If you really want to cover your retchling track, create an empty layer to work. Then, use the spot healing brush, but set the blend mode for the first pass to be dark or light, then switch to the second blend mode for the second pass. It should look more random than using a brush in normal mode.
Gimme some skin
There are many ways to do this, but I will only give my favorite, which I like because it is easy to fix it (when?) I overdo it.
You will need to make two decreasing layers – for one dodge and for a burn.
For the dodge layer, which will lighten the image, hold the curve around the midpoint and pull it up, as you see in the illustration.
For the burn layer, which will black the image, hold the curve around the midpoint and pull it down, as you see in the illustration below.
Create a mask on the right side of the curve symbol black (Command + I “on a Mac”, control + I Windows).
An advantage of this method is that later you can adjust the curve up or down so that the effect can be strengthened or weakened in the entire image when needed. On your first attempts, you probably need it. By having separate dodes and burn layers, you can also adjust each effect individually, and you can do it at any point in your editing, even late in sports.
Now the part that comes in which some practice is required to master.
Set a brush white (I like a soft round). I set up up to 100 percent to opacity and actually low, actually low -two percent. Then, create an impact bit by bit.
I like to start with burn layer, darkness highlights (thanks to the tip, August Daring). If I start by lightening the dark areas to mix in bright areas, I almost always overdo it.
Do not try to make darkness and light completely comfortable. This is the perfect formula to overdowing. Think as to reduce the difference between dark and light, do not eliminate them. A word of warning – added and burnt area may shift to slightly color. You can deal with it later in many ways, mainly a hue and saturation layer adjustment. I did not make this adjustment to the woman’s example images in the white top.
Skincare secret
It took me a long time to feel how much shorter changes have an impact – and how much time and attention should go on small irregularities. I often spend most of the edit working with a three-to-five-pixel soft brush set on the flow of two … and I sometimes turn it into one.
So, secret chutney is patience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMISJSYELKI
Watch this seven-minute time of a spinning naik skin retach (in the past, two hours and eight minutes!). See how small flaws she addresses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMISJSYELKI&T=2s
These horror masks only show paintings on the dodge and burn the layers to see what was really done.
Bottled Surgery
Here is one of the attraction of this method. If you have gone too far, there are many ways to improve without starting. If all dodge or burn is too strong, you can simply go to that curve and take it back to the center to reduce the effect.
If there is only one place that is very strong, you can make your soft round brush black and, yet on a low flow, reduce the effect by painting on the area where it is very strong.
Real beauty?
Customers generally feel great how they look naturally. (A recent comment: “Wow! I really looked good that day!”) This is a big plus – more business, more income.
But once you become moderately good on it, it becomes comfortable. Attention. Like those adult colors books – only you are paid color.
