Natasha. WF. Cleaning (4 img)

Yuri Pautov

Priviet, dear friends!
WF means work flow...
Maybe this will be interesting to some of you...
I was late at Rutt's post... Sorry...

I use Sony F707 (no RAW at all) - just jpg...

First: We save original file for edition (I add ‘e’ letter to the end of file name…)




Open it in PS and start the next procedure
You can call it ‘Yuri’s cleaning’ (if you like).
Lets see what we have.



We must clean these black/gray dots, red spots on the skin…
Using zoom tool, I work with 300% img.
Make copy of layer for work.
I use healing brush with small size – 9 px. Of course, this will lead you to make *a lot* of mouse clicks – great work, but surely you’ll be satisfied with the results…
So we ‘take’ with Alt+click a good looking skin somewhere near ‘a bad point’ and start clicking on these black dots…10, 20, 50, 100 times, taking pattern from time to time …
You may ask why not use ‘area cleaning’ or ‘Filter-> Noise-> Dust and Scratches’.
Answer: we are editing the original shot – it can be used then for different things: big size print (for example) – then all our ‘work’ will be seeing… The operation we are doing saves skin structure very carefully…
I return to 100% view from time to time to change the working area…
In some cases (near edges) I change healing brush tool mode from ‘Normal’ to ‘Replace’…
Then again ‘Normal’
I also delete small wrinkles, hair, scars, birthmarks..

Yes, it a moot point… Small sized brush can be used also for red veins on eyes…



Crop after cleaning...


Press Ctrl+E , Ctrl+S

And the result:


Sorry for my English - have no practice exept forums... (Thanks to all of you, dear friends, you make me not forget my so-so English language)

Spasibo
Yuri

tobys

Thank you!
Yuri,
Your photography is superb! (your english is fine too) I found Digital Grin by chance on the web and found your photos of Tatyana. She is so beautiful, you did a wonderful job capturing her. I would look forward to more of her and all your other posts! Thank you.
Robert

Yuri Pautov wrote:

Priviet, dear friends!
WF means work flow...
Maybe this will be interesting to some of you...
I was late at Rutt's post... Sorry...

I use Sony F707 (no RAW at all) - just jpg...

First: We save original file for edition (I add ‘e’ letter to the end of file name…)




Open it in PS and start the next procedure
You can call it ‘Yuri’s cleaning’ (if you like).
Lets see what we have.



We must clean these black/gray dots, red spots on the skin…
Using zoom tool, I work with 300% img.
Make copy of layer for work.
I use healing brush with small size – 9 px. Of course, this will lead you to make *a lot* of mouse clicks – great work, but surely you’ll be satisfied with the results…
So we ‘take’ with Alt+click a good looking skin somewhere near ‘a bad point’ and start clicking on these black dots…10, 20, 50, 100 times, taking pattern from time to time …
You may ask why not use ‘area cleaning’ or ‘Filter-> Noise-> Dust and Scratches’.
Answer: we are editing the original shot – it can be used then for different things: big size print (for example) – then all our ‘work’ will be seeing… The operation we are doing saves skin structure very carefully…
I return to 100% view from time to time to change the working area…
In some cases (near edges) I change healing brush tool mode from ‘Normal’ to ‘Replace’…
Then again ‘Normal’
I also delete small wrinkles, hair, scars, birthmarks..

Yes, it a moot point… Small sized brush can be used also for red veins on eyes…



Crop after cleaning...


Press Ctrl+E , Ctrl+S

And the result:


Sorry for my English - have no practice exept forums... (Thanks to all of you, dear friends, you make me not forget my so-so English language)

Spasibo
Yuri

Scarhart

Thanks for the tips on work flow and cleaning, Yuri. Do you only do the meticulous dot-cleaning on young models?

I tend to leave a lot of things in with older models to avoid giving the impression of a face-lift. But I soften the lines and other age marks to give nature a hand.

Cheers,
Scott

Yuri Pautov

Scarhart wrote:

Thanks for the tips on work flow and cleaning, Yuri. Do you only do the meticulous dot-cleaning on young models?

I tend to leave a lot of things in with older models to avoid giving the impression of a face-lift. But I soften the lines and other age marks to give nature a hand.

Cheers,
Scott

Spasibo Scott for your interest!
This WB was mainly about dots and red spots. Maybe I'll post another WF (if it will be interesting) about my work with 'not thet young' model's portraits...
Yuri

GraphyFotoz

Top Notch Yuri!!
You sure know where to find the fine looking Ladies for your photo's!

GREAT WORK and no RAW or DSLR! VERY IMPRESSIVE!

DRT-Maverick

I'm definitely going to have to try out your technique Yuri, the results from what I see are stunning!

Sam

Yuri,

Your the master at on location, ambient light, beautiful woman photography.

Magnificent as always.

Sam

gluwater

You sure have patience Yuri to clone out all those spots individually. This was very interesting to see that you put so much time and effort into your work. Did you do any other processing of this photo or was it finished after this cleaning? Your work is always fantastic and I am glad you took the time to let us know how you process it. This is a fantastic example that wonderful work can be done without a DSLR. I would love to see any other work flows you are willing to share and I'm sure others on dgrin and myself would learn a lot from you. Thanks for sharing and your English is better than a lot of people who use it as their first language.