soften goosebumps

[jon_miller4]

I've have a shot that I did of a model and upon viewing the image I see she had

goosebumps. Is there a technique that I can use to get rid or soften the

goosebumps without the entire image looking like a plastic doll? I've used the

grainy effect in PSCS3 and that looks good, but want to hear from others as to

their thoughs.

Is there a pluging that can do more retouching effect on the human body than

what PS CS3 can do?

 

 

 

Thanks

[emre]

If you are not experienced in Photoshop, you can get a plug-in like Imagenomic portraiture.

[ronald_moravec1]

Make a duplicate layer. Select the skin in question. Run filter-average. adjust the layer opacity to let some to all the below layer with bumps show thru.

 

A good selection is the key to make this work.

[aubrey_haynes]

Emre Safak... Thank you for mentioning the software Imagenomic portraiture, I was not aware

of this software. It will save me much time!

[John Seaman]

Perhaps a heater in the studio....?

[tobiasfeltus]

in very rough terms, the 'louis vuitton effect' can be obtained with a lot of work, more or

less in this manner:

 

spot healing brush: remove large blemishes.

use Layers or another adjustment to remove any drastic shift in skin colour (i.e. red

splotches)

duplicate layer.

apply: filter/blur/suface blur to the minimun necessary to remove surface detail.

add layer mask to this blurred layer. fill layer mask with black (all of that layer will go

transparent)

using a soft brush, paint into the layer mask in the areas you want to smooth the skin

(cheeks, neck, nose.. but not hair and eyes)

reduce opacity on the new smoothed layer to around 80% to maintain some skin detail.

 

have a go, and play. some seem to do this in LAB mode rather than RGB. i still have a lot of

practice to do.

 

t