Does anyone know how to use Photoshop and develop a glamour pic?

Question

I just want my photos to look smooth with alot of hue and saturation and professional without paying money to do it. it would be nice if i was directed or shown some nice samples. thanks

Answer 1

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Answer 2

there are MANY ways to accomplish the desired effect. Most commonly (to my knowledge) is the careful, detail oriented use of the clone stamp to smooth the skin out. Try setting the clone stamp opacity to around 23%. Once thats done, find the area of skin on the subject you'd like to start working with, then find a sample area of the skin that matches the work area's tonal range. From there, just start stamping away while constantly grabbing a new sample area along the way. If you are careful, you should begin to see the skin smooth out very nicely.

I worked for a photographer who was AMAZING at airbrushing in this fasion.

There is a way to cheat this method with a filter, but it doesn't look nearly as nice. set your bg color to white. then apply a filter - filter>distort>diffuse glow. Set the clear amount from 10-15, glow amount from 3-5, and grain to taste (usually low). There you have it... poor man's smoothing.

Answer 3

You can find help all over the web for this kind of thing. As a starter you can alter the hue and saturation by choosing a layer from the layers pane.[always try to use layers so you don't alter the original image]. You can use blur filters to achieve a softening effect. You should experiment freely with all the effects and have fun with it. You will probably find that subtle alterations work better than throwing a lot of effects at the image

Answer 4

Most glamour shots achieve their affect on the capture side, with lighting and intentional overexposure...also known as a 'high key' shot. These exposures 'blow out' the skin so that all the imperfections disappear and attention is drawn to the eyes. Lighting is not your typical main and fill but straight on or slightly overhead with a single large softbox (massive diffusion).

On the post capture side, you can achieve similar high key effects in Photoshop with their wide selection of filters; however, it is difficult to recreate studio lighting. During your RAW conversion, you might want to play with 'overexposing'. Try playing around with the contrast settings, or exploring the many filter effects that come with Photoshop...you'll learn mostly by experimentation. Look into noise reduction also.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

You can do the "skin smoothing" it makes the photo glamorous!

Answer 7

i do

there is a book called photoshop restoration and retouching

http://www.digitalretouch.org/

take a look
good luck

Answer 8

send me a pic I'll do it for free the first time.