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britneyfan4lyfe
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Posted: Tue Dec 16th, 2003 12:11 pm |
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| HIw im new here, I was just wondering if you guys can give me tips on how to airbrush photos of people's faces and make them look perfect/.
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Woodman
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Posted: Tue Dec 16th, 2003 12:55 pm |
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Greetings,
What sort of mod would you have to do? Getting rid of scars, pimples, and/or bits of hair? Or would you also need to reconstruct part of their faces, as in making the nose thinner/longer, or putting hair on various areas?
If you're after the former, then it's all pretty simple actually, just a matter of experimentation. For example, to cover up an unsightly pimple, you can start by getting a nearby color sample, and airbrushing a new layer over the bit. Getting the right color to blend naturally is sometimes difficult, so a good idea would be for you to get a sample average of 3x3 or 5x5 pixels. Airbrush using several samples, and see which one looks best. You can even brush in multiple color samples, depending on how severe the gradient is on the face.
Often times too, coloring can be such that it becomes a bit obvious when compared with the original face in the background. So another way to blend it better would be to use the "Eraser" tool. Making sure you tweak the Opacity/Flow settings, you can blend a new colored layer as seamlessly as possible with the background image.
All this are very basic techniques, yet they are powerful enough to be used for most retouching, provided you exeriment with them a bit. More professional touchups like facial reconstruction & such are a bit out of my league unfortunatly. I've toyed with them a bit before, using professional 3D software, but that was waay back & I've lost all those skills now haha  .
Given enough time however, and a very steady hand, virtually nothing should be impossible using some of the more basic techniques used in Photoshop  . Good luck.
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Emily
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Posted: Thu May 27th, 2004 10:54 pm |
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You really should be using photoshop 7 and using the healing brush. That way when you clone a bit of skin, you can retain the texture and shading of the original sample.
Another tip, if you want to do major surgery (eg slim down legs or trim chins etc) create a path of the area you want to delete, then feather the selection and delete or copy in the background into that area.
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Leo45
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Posted: Fri Aug 24th, 2007 08:57 am |
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I use http://www.portraitprofessional.com airbrushing software, and find it very easy to use.
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