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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:38 am Post subject: Re: How to give glossy effect to photo
NO!!! Never use Blur... see I've seen a lot of people use Blur for gloss, but blur is just an easy faster and doggy way out... I've worked in this photoshop field for at least 16 years and I started on photoshop ver2..
And I've worked in an Ad agency, we never use blur, Duplicate the layer and use the clone tool, clone each area bit by bit for example smoothing skin of a super model and clone with less opacity of the clone brush so that the girl doesn't look plastic and after you finish lower the opacity of the upper layer to what ever you feel is good to you, so that the texture of the skin is not lost...
I really can't explain, how to do it, even in a tutorial, it's something you see other professionals do for years. As I said before it's taken me 16 years, and I'm telling you Blur is not the way.. Now on the net a lot of people tell you to use Blur but try to find a website that shows you the clone trick : )
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:49 pm Post subject: Re: How to give glossy effect to photo
K-touch, if that Ad agency used the clone tool to soften skin, then they need a wake up call. The clone tool should never be used to smooth skin, it should be used to fix small areas only and secondly, the healing brush or patch tool is a much better solution since it takes lighting and texture into account.
And as for softening the whole skin; any skilled photo retoucher I've ever met uses blur techniques, whether it's on the original or in combination with channels, it's the most used way to soften skin, but I have to agree one one thing; gaussian blur should never be used, median and surface blur are much better suited from a technical perspective. When skin starts to look plastic has nothing to do with the technique, it's has to do with the user applying the technique. There are tons of ways to avoid that an image starts to look plastic by applying blur and changing the opacity is only one of them.
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