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Skin retouching

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:35 pm
by hukari
I go this link in a German Photoshop newsletter I subscribe to. I haven't tried it yet, but maybe someone else would like to try it out as well.

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/cleanskin.htm

CleanSkinFX is the most powerful automatic retouch for portraits. It smooths the skin of the object while preserving all the details and crispness of hair, eyes or background. This procedure was exclusively developed by mediachance.com.

Re: Skin retouching

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:48 pm
by suzib
If you try it out, Reka, let me know how it works

Re: Skin retouching

PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:01 am
by ladybug
Has anyone tried this yet.

Re: Skin retouching

PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:48 am
by MichelB
I just tried it on a difficult shot of my mother (aged 86 years, with lots of skin problems). I chose the standalone version. It's automatic and you have only two settings to chose from: double fix and red. With a new machine and Vista, it's very quick and the result is satisfactory. Since it is a standalone version (free), I would recommend opening the initial file and the corrected one to put on another layer. With some masking and layer opacity variations you should achieve satisfactory results with flexibility.
I'll try to add links to examples in my site... as soon as I can reinstall and test ftp transfer.
Edit:
Try the following links:
http://mbret.club.fr/bretchermichel/IMG_8407c.jpg
http://mbret.club.fr/bretchermichel/IMG_8407cClean.jpg
The original was already processed, but you can see the effect of this program. The softening effects also 'blurs' details, so masking would be required.

Re: Skin retouching

PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:24 am
by ladybug
thanks Michel, i may just have to download it.

Re: Skin retouching

PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:19 pm
by MichelB
From the number of views of this thread, I can conclude this topic is very interesting to many... We all have to retouch a difficult portrait some day. There are many tutorials, techniques and softwares to deal with this. What are your favorites?