I shot a HS senior and well, it's summer and we were outdoors - she, umm, perspired (only men sweat, right?)
Anyway, she's picked her pics and has asked that 'the shine be reduced' - I tried a bit when i did the proofs without much success - so here is a sample shot - how do i do it?
(on her right cheek and forehead)
I will assume you are using PS. Here are the steps and follow closely:
Step 1:
Open your photograph that has hot spots that need to be toned down.
Step 2:
Using the clone stamp tool, in the options Bar, change the Mode from Normal to Darken and lower the oopacity to 50%. Changing the mode to darken only affects the pixels that are lighter.
Step 3:
Choose a large soft edge brush. Press and hold Alt and click once in a clean area of skin (no hot spots but close to where the original hot spots are).
Step 4:
Start by gently painting over the hot spots with the Clone Tool. If you have to rework in several different hot spots, remember to resample areas once again.
I'd go with a 20% opacity healing brush. A brush or clone tool with give you blurry areas around the edge of your work, but the healing brush will retain any skin texture.
I will assume you are using PS. Here are the steps and follow closely:
Step 1:
Open your photograph that has hot spots that need to be toned down.
Step 2:
Using the clone stamp tool, in the options Bar, change the Mode from Normal to Darken and lower the oopacity to 50%. Changing the mode to darken only affects the pixels that are lighter.
Step 3:
Choose a large soft edge brush. Press and hold Alt and click once in a clean area of skin (no hot spots but close to where the original hot spots are).
Step 4:
Start by gently painting over the hot spots with the Clone Tool. If you have to rework in several different hot spots, remember to resample areas once again.
That's it :) As always, save your original file.
Cheers,
Rikki
Yeah, this is the way I do it too except I do all the clone work on a duplicate layer in case I goof up royally...works great :)
