Can I say the best new retouching methohad I have recently found was posted by our own Kris Fulk? I have tried this and it gives far better results than anything I have tried to date. I do sometimes use Portrait Professional and a few other actions (or from-scratch methods), but this is really terrific stuff. VERY impressed with the results (thanks again, Kris!).
I also really like the "foundation" and "deblotch" actions in the newest Totally Rad retouch set; there are a few in that collection that I find helpful.
He lost me when I got to the part where he said, "this takes hours".:D
He lost me when I got to the part where he said, "this takes hours".:D
Was thinking about this as I did some edits today. I think it DOES take a really long time if you're going for the flaweless-skin/fashion look of her images, but using it for my purposes hasn't taken much longer than typical cloning/healing brush work I've done "manually"; less, in fact, and with superior results. I made the steps into an action, so the basic setup is 1-click for me now, and I run it, clone/heal, then use my "usual suspects" as needed. It's not right for every image, but I'm having some good luck with it, particularly on some 50-something gals where a lot of techniques can look too fake.
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He lost me when I got to the part where he said, "this takes hours".:D
Was thinking about this as I did some edits today. I think it DOES take a really long time if you're going for the flaweless-skin/fashion look of her images, but using it for my purposes hasn't taken much longer than typical cloning/healing brush work I've done "manually"; less, in fact, and with superior results. I made the steps into an action, so the basic setup is 1-click for me now, and I run it, clone/heal, then use my "usual suspects" as needed. It's not right for every image, but I'm having some good luck with it, particularly on some 50-something gals where a lot of techniques can look too fake.
Anyway, for what it's worth