soulhuntre opened this issue on Jun 03, 2001 ยท 4 posts
soulhuntre posted Sun, 03 June 2001 at 6:25 AM
Attached Link: The image in question...
One of the great artists over in the poser side of life does incredible post work on his skintones. I have added the link to a image of his showing "before" and "after". The hair I can do - but the skin tone work is amazing... any help?
pneal posted Sun, 03 June 2001 at 12:54 PM
I'd start by adjusting the curves, then maybe playing with the color balance. Use Adjustment Layers so you can go back and tweak it if you need to.
februus posted Wed, 20 June 2001 at 11:15 PM
The basic work shown in the after image can be achieved using several simple techniques. The tools you must master are: the layering option, the fade command and your airbrush. Take your original poser render and add a layer, use your lasso tool to select areas you want to brighten on your figure (example: look at the legs-following post work there is a whitish light flowing down the curves of the legs) Lasso inside the leg top to bottom, using a white pigment set your airbrush to 30-50% strength and lightly spray into the selected area-be as uniform as possible and don't over fill the area. Now select filter/ fade from your taskbar commands and slowly decrease the white pigment you just airbrushed in. As it fades you will have the same effect as the one you see-just keep practising this. The best results are when you learn to carefully select areas to hilight and learn to fade properly-the fade filter/effect/tool command combined with layers is the single most effective series of photoshop tools at your disposal. Remember to combine your layers. Then as pneal suggested above: use the curves command and add points at the top of the curves line segment and at the bottom of the line segment and move them to add weight and body to your skin tones. That's pretty much all you need to get the look you're after.
dlm posted Sun, 24 June 2001 at 9:17 PM
Attached Link: http://www.ruku.com/covergirlintro.html
Attached is a link to a tutorial aimed at achieving that smooth glowing covergirl skin. It,s an old tutorial and took me a little while to refind,but its still a good starting point. You may need to experiment a bit with the technique,and prehaps mix it with the advice above.