Photoshop Skin Smoothing Action

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Morning all,

Being incredibly lazy (read - too flippin busy!!) I'm looking for a decent action to help me smooth skin on bridal portraits etc.

Can anyone recommend me one please? (for CS4)
 
Thanks Kev,

I have that program and it is very good. But it's a bit too slow for editing lots of wedding images :(
 
I'd strongly recommend manually addressing any skin retouching rather than relying on action script, each persons skin is different and will require different levels of retouching or consideration. :thumbs:
 
Tomas Whitehouse said:
I'd strongly recommend manually addressing any skin retouching rather than relying on action script, each persons skin is different and will require different levels of retouching or consideration. :thumbs:
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Thanks Tomas. I was afraid that might be the answer!! :D
 
Tomas Whitehouse said:
I'd strongly recommend manually addressing any skin retouching rather than relying on action script, each persons skin is different and will require different levels of retouching or consideration. :thumbs:
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Yep, I wrote my own action which automated a 17 step process but it leaves me to make three interventions. The amount of blur I use, the opacity of the blur layer and erasing it from the areas I don't want it applied to.

It's still a fairly manual process but better than doing it all from scratch
 
Tomas Whitehouse said:
I'd strongly recommend manually addressing any skin retouching rather than relying on action script, each persons skin is different and will require different levels of retouching or consideration. :thumbs:
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True, but if you're doing say 20 shots of the same person, once you've set an action / plugin up correctly for that person you're only doing minor tweaks and masking after that, not starting from scratch on each image.

As much as I'd love to advocate using D&B for each image, it's time consuming and therefore costly ;)
 
BouncyMelons said:
Yep, I wrote my own action which automated a 17 step process but it leaves me to make three interventions. The amount of blur I use, the opacity of the blur layer and erasing it from the areas I don't want it applied to.

It's still a fairly manual process but better than doing it all from scratch
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That sounds like just what I'm thinking of Ali. Can this action be sent to a desperate fella in the fens? PM me if you like and I will cross your palms with silver :)
 
Lightroom 2 has soft skin tool on development page. its a great tool and excellent for tweeking skin tones. I could find nothing in my CS3 extended. Friend gave me a copy of lightroom and its brill. Highly recommend it.
 
Thanks all. Dave - I've got LR2 but I find bridge and CS4 a bit quicker for me. I'll check it out though mate as it might be handy for the pics that warrant the extra attention to the skin.

Jason - I've checked out those two plug-ins - I see there's a portraiture 2 now that could be what I'm after. At $200 it ain't cheap though :eek:
 
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Hi Ryan, the best way to do it is for me to email you the instructions. You can then record it as an action at your end tailored to how you want to do it and off you go. I'll type it up for you later :)
 
ryanyboy said:
Thanks all. Dave - I've got LR2 but I find bridge and CS4 a bit quicker for me. I'll check it out though mate as it might be handy for the pics that warrant the extra attention to the skin.

Jason - I've checked out those two plug-ins - I see there's a portraiture 2 now that could be what I'm after. At $200 it ain't cheap though :eek:
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Time is money!!
 
JasonRS said:
True, but if you're doing say 20 shots of the same person, once you've set an action / plugin up correctly for that person you're only doing minor tweaks and masking after that, not starting from scratch on each image.

As much as I'd love to advocate using D&B for each image, it's time consuming and therefore costly ;)
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Indeed, I suppose we all have different kettles to fry ain it.

I've never had to do a full blown retouch on 20 pictures of the same person.
With the kind of stuff I do, the clients pick the images they want from the proofs and then the retouching process begins, saves an awful amount of time.
 
Tomas Whitehouse said:
Indeed, I suppose we all have different kettles to fry ain it.

I've never had to do a full blown retouch on 20 pictures of the same person.
With the kind of stuff I do, the clients pick the images they want from the proofs and then the retouching process begins, saves an awful amount of time.
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Same for me. Amount of retouching done also depends on how big the final print will be.
 
I use Portraiture and yes there is a lot of tweaking that can be done in it but you can also let it do its own thing and it is very good, unlike other pieces of software it doesn't actually blur the skin so it retains the texture to give you a more realistic look.
 
BouncyMelons said:
Hi Ryan, the best way to do it is for me to email you the instructions. You can then record it as an action at your end tailored to how you want to do it and off you go. I'll type it up for you later :)
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I'm also looking for something to smoothe the skin, tried combining cs4 bits & phototool bits but nothing come close yet. :'(
 
rotherad said:
I use Portraiture and yes there is a lot of tweaking that can be done in it but you can also let it do its own thing and it is very good, unlike other pieces of software it doesn't actually blur the skin so it retains the texture to give you a more realistic look.
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+1 ;)
 
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