Skin Retouching Tutorial, Part 3 Discsussion Thread

DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
edited April 20, 2010 in Finishing School
Our very own edgework has begun to release Part 3 of his Skin Retouching Tutorial.

You can find Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.

You can discuss this tutorial or ask any questions, right here!
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  • VikingViking Registered Users Posts: 178 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    Great, with movies also. :)

    Would love to have video for the others too :D
  • Duffy PrattDuffy Pratt Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    When I try to play the movie, I get audio but no picture.

    Duffy
  • edgeworkedgework Registered Users Posts: 257 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    When I try to play the movie, I get audio but no picture.

    Duffy
    Make sure you have the latest version of Quicktime.
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  • edgeworkedgework Registered Users Posts: 257 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    Viking wrote:
    Great, with movies also. :)

    Would love to have video for the others too :D
    I more or less see these installments as embellishments on the first two.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    Videos 4 and 5 are now uploaded.
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  • dancorderdancorder Registered Users Posts: 197 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2007
    Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, they look really helpful. I'll have to take a proper look once I have the internet back at home.
  • edgeworkedgework Registered Users Posts: 257 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2007
    dancorder wrote:
    Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, they look really helpful. I'll have to take a proper look once I have the internet back at home.
    While they pretty much chart the course of a single job from beginning to end, I've tried to focus each one on different techniques that would be useful apart from the project context. I'm going to try to post one on smoothing later today.

    Hope they're useful.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2007
    Parts 6 and 7 are uploaded! clap.gif

    WTG, Edgework!
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  • pyrtekpyrtek Registered Users Posts: 539 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2007
    Great stuff, edgework. Thank you for putting so much effort into this set
    of videos.

    In the last one you mention a link to an article about the techniques you use.
    Can you please post that link? Thanks.
  • LAB.ratLAB.rat Registered Users Posts: 65 Big grins
    edited July 16, 2007
    pyrtek wrote:
    In the last one you mention a link to an article about the techniques you use.
    Can you please post that link? Thanks.
    I was gonna ask the same, but I would guess it's this one:
    http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1169397

    Anyway, my thanks to you as well, Edgework! bowdown.gif It's been good to see the smoothing tut in a video now.

    It seems people are on a holiday or something. Hope you're not getting discouraged for the next 93 parts... mwink.gif Fame does not always come quickly :D
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2007
    Those links were posted in the tutorials page, here.
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  • edgeworkedgework Registered Users Posts: 257 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2007
    LAB.rat wrote:
    Fame does not always come quickly :D
    I gave up on fame back when I unplugged my guitar and went out looking for a real job.
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  • LAB.ratLAB.rat Registered Users Posts: 65 Big grins
    edited July 17, 2007
    A fellow guitar player? The graphic and musical arts often go hand in hand, don't they clap.gif

    In the days before the dual processor I played more though, waiting for PS to process something... ;)
  • edgeworkedgework Registered Users Posts: 257 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2007
    LAB.rat wrote:
    A fellow guitar player? The graphic and musical arts often go hand in hand, don't they clap.gif

    In the days before the dual processor I played more though, waiting for PS to process something... ;)
    I remember QUADRAS... you'd try to time your large files (100mgs) around your lunch break because that's when you'd open them or save them.
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  • LiquidAirLiquidAir Registered Users Posts: 1,751 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2007
    Quick question:

    I have seen a number of retouching techniques that later on in the process blend back in bits and pieces from the orginal. However, once use the liquify tool, the pixels have moved around too much to make that possible. It seems me that if you could, you would do your liquify moves before you clone so you still can blend back in bits of the original. Is there a specific reason you clone first and liquify later?
  • edgeworkedgework Registered Users Posts: 257 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2007
    LiquidAir wrote:
    Quick question:

    I have seen a number of retouching techniques that later on in the process blend back in bits and pieces from the orginal. However, once use the liquify tool, the pixels have moved around too much to make that possible. It seems me that if you could, you would do your liquify moves before you clone so you still can blend back in bits of the original. Is there a specific reason you clone first and liquify later?
    I'm not sure what you mean about blending back bits of the original; in the first two videos I do precisely that when working on minimizing the wrinkles. By the time I get to the liquify filter, there isn't a lot left that requires reblending.

    However, your point is valid, and it's possible that in a different situation I would have done some sculpting first. I've tried to focus each video around a specific type of work flow; in the real world it doesn't always work that neatly. You do a little of this, a little of that, then you think "Hmmm, could've gone further with that," and you got back and do some more. Also, in this particular project, the admittedly artificial purpose is to drastically alter everything; there's not a lot of the original that I'd want to blend back into the finished product.
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  • chrisjleechrisjlee Registered Users Posts: 384 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2007
    pyrtek wrote:
    Great stuff, edgework. Thank you for putting so much effort into this set
    of videos.

    In the last one you mention a link to an article about the techniques you use.
    Can you please post that link? Thanks.

    Yeah i'm looking for that retouch pro article mentioned in the movie.
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  • pyrtekpyrtek Registered Users Posts: 539 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2007
    chrisjlee wrote:
    Yeah i'm looking for that retouch pro article mentioned in the movie.


    Here you go:


    http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=147

    http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=149
  • chrisjleechrisjlee Registered Users Posts: 384 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2007
  • vietphungvietphung Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
    edited February 1, 2008
    Skin Retouching Tutorial Pt 3
    Please help! I try to open these files up, and nothing happen, just the picture of the face. Any clue ?????

    Thanks
  • PixelPixiePixelPixie Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
    edited October 14, 2008
    PixelPixie
    I Can't Open Movies, Just Get A Transparent Gif!!! Help Me Please.
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2008
    PixelPixie wrote:
    I Can't Open Movies, Just Get A Transparent Gif!!! Help Me Please.


    Those movies were saved as attachments, and older attachments are broken at the moment. You're doing nothing wrong, we just need to get it fixed, and it'll be a bit.

    Sorry!
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  • photorelivephotorelive Banned Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited April 20, 2010
    really nice tutorial , but i prefer for the last child photo to use the brush slightly removing these red areas .. by using brush and the tool that gets the color tone .. professionally
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