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The 15 Minute Makeover: Photoshop Beauty Retouching
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|A split image showing results both before and after my 15 minute makeover.
Skin needs to be retouched. Even beautiful skin with great makeup. The problem with most of the Photoshop techniques I've experimented with over the years (burning & dodging individual pores, Surface Blur filter, Dust and Scratches filter, etc.) is they take too long, aren't very convincing, or - worst of all - make the subject look like a victim of plastic surgery gone bad.
In this article I'm going to show you a combination of techniques I regularly use that results in beautiful, smooth skin that still looks totally real. Best of all, it won't take all day to accomplish. From start to finish, an experienced Photoshop user should be able to do this in about 15 minutes.
Our workflow follows three basic stages.
1. Manually retouch big flaws and wrinkles via a separate retouching layer
2. Merge the retouching edits into the image layer
3. Use the Red channel of the merged layer to smooth the skin
Before we get started I want you to beware of and avoid what I call Photographer's Tunnel Vision - that compulsive desire to do the fun stuff first. Making things perfect comes at the end, not the beginning, of the retouching process. Keep your eye on the big picture (no pun intended).
The first tools we'll be reaching for are the Clone Stamp Tool and Spot Healing Brush. With these we can retouch major blemishes, flyaway hairs, and any other texture/color irregularities.
Stage 1: Retouch Obvious Blemishes and Imperfections
Create a new, empty pixel layer above the Background layer to receive the retouching. The trick here will be to choose the Sample All Layers option while using the Spot Healing Brush and the Current and Below option for the Clone Stamp Tool. This ensures that your chosen tool will copy pixels from the Background into the new layer above it.
Why not retouch right on the Background layer? If you make a mistake, and don't notice right away, you have to start all over again! Well, couldn't I just duplicate the Background layer, you may ask? That's better than nothing, but it's still not a great solution: any retouching you do this way is interwoven into the image pixels, so mistakes can often be more complicated to correct.
By contrast, using a separate 'retouching layer' is elegant. It avoids destructive editing, keeps file sizes small, and allows you to easily change your mind or correct mistakes. Since there's nothing in the retouching layer but retouching edits and transparency, mistakes are easily dealt with; just delete or erase problem areas without touching the rest of your work. Of course, if you like the adrenaline rush of working without a safety net, be my guest. But don't say I didn't warn you.
Cloning and Healing
The Clone Stamp Tool (S) has been a standby for retouchers for many years. To use it, make sure the Aligned Sample box is checked and set the sampling option to Current and Below, which allows you to match tone, texture and color. Option/Alt+click to set the source from which to copy. Then click or brush to remove the blemish.
The Spot Healing Brush (J) is a more recent addition to Photoshop that does a remarkable job of automatically matching tone, texture and color. To use it, enable the Content-Aware and Sample All Layers options. There's no need to set a source point, just click or brush to remove the blemish. This tool can often seem like magic, but it's not infallible. If your first stroke with the Spot Healing Brush isn't perfect, undo (Cmd/Ctrl+Z) and try stroking from a different direction. To be certain your work is perfect, always view your file at 100% magnification when retouching. If texture, tone, or color do not match, undo and try again. Our goal is for each brush stroke to be invisible - even to you.
With either tool, you will find that some blemishes call for a single click, while others are best removed with a series of short brush strokes. Initially you may have to experiment to find which situations calls for one or the other, but with practice, this will become second nature.
How do you know when you're ready to move on to the next stage? Retouch as I've described above until you're satisfied that no flaws bigger than a freckle are visible anymore.
Pay Attention to the Eyes
I always use a separate layer when working on the eyes because it allows me to adjust the opacity of the retouching; striking a perfect balance point between enhanced and overdone. Allowing a bit of the original image to show thorough keeps everything real. It's up to you how much. If you've never done this, you'll be amazed at the control you can exercise by adjusting the overall opacity of an under-eye retouching layer.
Yes, I know… You can achieve the same result by varying the opacity of the brushes. But with brushes you have to get it exactly right the first time. There's no experimenting. No changing your mind later. It's so much easier (and more powerful) to smooth away folds, bags, or dark circles under the eyes, and then dial back the opacity until it looks believable. Take a close look at the examples below.
Stage 2: Merge All of Your Layers Into a New Layer
Now we're ready to merge all of our working layers into a brand new layer. Why a new layer? Because in a moment we'll be using the Red channel as the basis for our skin smoothing, and we need that channel to include all of the visible information: the original pixels and the retouching.
Furthermore, we don't want to lose access to the hard work we've done up to this point, so we want to copy all of these layers into a new layer, rather than simply flattening the image! The Merge Visible command is found in the fly-out menu at the upper right of the Layers Panel as well as in the main Layers menu. But here's where a keyboard modifier is a must. Holding the option key when choosing this menu item tells Photoshop to merge into a new layer. Otherwise, it's virtually the same as Flatten Image. The keyboard shortcut for merging all visible layers into a new layer is Opt+Shift+Cmd+E (Alt+Shift+Ctrl+E on Windows). This shortcut is affectionately known as 'The Claw'. Try it with one hand and you'll understand why!
As you can easily find yourself with multiple retouching layers, now is a good time to get them organized by using layer groups. Select your retouching layers in the Layers panel and choose New Group From Layers in the panel's fly-out menu. Give the group a name, like oh, I don't know, 'Retouching' and hit OK. This is a great way to keep your layers manageable and easily accessible.
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Ethical issues regarding retouching (btw why is it called that, it implies it was "touched" already) have been with us even before the age of computers, as journalists have had to struggle with this for decades with real airbrushes, and the issue of "perfection" has huge cultural and social implications in that unrealistic standards are set by the media that put pressure on our teens and young adults.
Fantastic article, it is any way to save or bookmark this info?
Wow that was wonderful... and complicated. For this kinda stuff I hate Photoshop.
I know professionals love professional tools cause they like more control, but when they start using them only cause it makes them look smart and more competent is when their attitudes become snobby.
I personally would use Photoshop to remove blemishes and an automatic retoucher like Portrait professional, to simplify my life.
But I am not a professional... :-)
I think a lot of folks here are forgetting that photo retouching is not a new invention. 50 years ago we were dodging and burning in our darkrooms, and most of Ansel Adams great masterpieces were indeed "retouched."
Retouching has been going on since the dawn of photography, so they need to get off their high horses and stop claiming it "isn't photography."
It may not be something you want to do. It is just another tool the photographer has available to him or her.
As far as the "mother nature" crap goes.... ask your wife if she is willing to stop using makeup or touching up her hair. And you probably don't need to shave or comb your hair either... since that is also "unnatural."
To the people who are complaining about ANY retouching of faces, I can only say that I can understand your point of view.
However, anyone who wants to be skilled at Photoshop retouching should appreciate learning the tools to achieve certain effects such as these.
If you do not care for the end result and do not wish to apply them, then that's perfectly understandable, but if you don't know how to best use these tools to achieve a certain effect, then you have no choice.
Thank you very much for an excellent tutorial. I'm afraid a very large contingent of photographers can benefit especially from your comments about not overdoing the skin adjustments. If the pores are completely gone, it will look "fake" and "amateurish" in a very bad way.
Although I have used red filters for b&w conversions of portraits, I had not thought of using the red channel for routine skin beauty treatments, so it's much appreciated. The red channel will do wonders for almost any skin "color/tone" imperfections because many blemishes are "redder" than the normal skin areas.
The workflow you propose is really good and you explain very well. I'm going to add your excellent workflow to my "beauty treatment" workflow.
Thanks very much,
You must have many girlfriends.
I'm sorry, but you shouldn't be WANTING to do this.
Unless you think your mother or girlfriend is just plain ugly...
Have some respect for nature... it's as bad as make-up and maybe even plastic surgery...
Maybe you should just be shooting in JPEG so it comes out blurrier no?
Otherwise, what's the use of shooting RAW to get the most detail into an image?
And the word says it all; RAW... just like it is in real-life... that's what I shoot...
I use nothing but the exposure and such settings and some post-noise-reduction if the ISO made it really bad.
I wouldn't touch the pores or birthmark on my girlfriend...
Oh well... modern times I guess...
Thanks for sharing this 15-minute. I've been at a loss of improving the image. I'll try this.
Great tutorial -- extremely practical stuff. Thanks!
Exceptional tutorial. Thank you for generously sharing your advanced knowledge in this area. I have been trying to do this for years using books and online tutorials, and this was the first that brought it all together in a compact, well-articulated and simple to follow tutorial. I've been practicing this technique all week in my spare time. As a former longtime classical piano student, I am a great believer in practice, practice, practice!
Thanks for taking the time to let me know, wildplaces. Really glad you found the tutorial helpful.
using photoshop is not real photography. improve your technique, don't depend on software to make your images for you.
Sometimes it is difficult to find models with perfect skin or to find makeup artists at rates and availability that you can afford. Post processing is a very economical method to achieve expensive results.
Sometimes wives, friends, and clients want portraits that are more ideal than reality.
I'm afraid I have to disagree here. Photography is a two step process. Taking the photo, and then developing the photo. Before Digital there was no Photoshop but there was a Dark Room and, many photographers did their own developing. The terms in Photoshop like Dodge, Burn, Cropping are all terms taken from working in the Dark Room years ago. These and other tools were used then and now replaced by tools like Photoshop. Now, of course, the original capture is important but, making a good photograph a great photograph one must use all the tools available just like they did years ago.
Help! I absolutely cannot get this copy red layer thing to work and tried all the suggestions below and really need someone to dumb this down further Here's what I am doing (CS5,5 Win7)-
1. Select Merged Layer - Highlighted blue, eyeballs for all other layers turned on.
2. Select red channel. Red Channel is blue, only Red channel has eyeball on. Image is grey as it should be.
3. Option 1 = CtrlC/CtrlV and Paste appears in history and merged layer goes b/w. Channels tab has red channel only selected, reselecting RGB produces faded green/blue image, no new layer is added
Option 2 - Apply Image. Hit OK, no layer is created but Apply Image appears in History tab.
Option 3 - Select red channel, ctrl A does nothing, Select Canvas appears in history. Manually select all the channels with eye on red channel only but all are blue, ctrlC/ctrlV produces a new channel Paste appears in history but color is lost from all layers. Selecting channels produces CMY images.
Thx for all help.
Hi wkay. As I mentioned before, copying and pasting the Red Channel into the file as a layer is definitely the trickiest part. Let's try a different way to do Step 2: Once the retouching is done, do not merge your layers into a new layer. Instead, create a Channel Mixer adjustment layer on top of all of your other layers. Check (turn on) the "Monochrome" checkbox in the Channel Mixer dialog box. Set the Red Channel to +100, and all the others to zero. Then use "the claw" to merge everything into a new layer. (This layer will be exactly the same as if you had copied and pasted the Red Channel from Channels into Layers!) Delete the Channel Mixer adjustment layer, and proceed to Step 3. Hope this helps!
The idea is to use Select>Color Range as an easy way to select the skin, so we can use that selection to make a mask that will reveal the smoothing layer only on the skin. This will work best if the rest of the picture doesn't have too many colors similar to the skin you're trying to select. Regardless of whether you use Color Range or another selection method, these are the steps: 1) Make a selection of the skin, but not eyes, hair, clothing or backdrop. 2) With the selection active, add a layer mask to your smoothing layer. The mask will reflect the shape of your selection, making the smoothing layer visible only in the area that was selected, and hiding it everywhere else. 3) Refine the mask with brushes, the Mask Edge feature in the Masks panel, or your favorite method.
Thanks Jean, great article and very helpful. Its made a huge difference in my retouches. I would love to know more about how you clean up and retouch hair.
Thanks, Robert. What I did here is just kind of a digital haircut, using the same techniques described in Stage 1 of the article. I use the Clone Stamp Tool and Spot Healing Brush to copy sections of the image background into a new layer, concealing flyaway hair.
Nice work! Quick and straight-to-the-point, concise and effective, well done!
I honestly think that the person could done a better job, because one side of her eye is larger than the other, and one of the eyebrow is arching more than the other. There is also a dimple near her right cheek, and creases on the lower jaw area that needs to be addressed.
He was writing a concise article on fixing skin blemishes and softening skin showing another technique; no claim was made to perfection.
Excellent article. Thanks so much for these techniques.
It's nice to learn a new skill that will improve my wife's outlook on life!! I think I'm safe with that remark, because she doesn't surf dpreview. On a more serious note, for those of us on a budget, and with limited skills, it would be great to have a recap for Photoshop Elements.
Thank you for this great demonstration. However all this discussion about the angels' sex makes me smile and reminds me when they first colorized the old black & white movies. Purists were, rightfully, scandalized and denigrated the whole idea, while others just pushed the "no color" or "b&w" button on their remotes and continued to watch the movies in their original b&w appearance.
Jean, you've got people contributing - brilliant. Good presentation. Myself, I am very manual although sometimes I'm flawed and try others' advice. If we can't pintch each other's ideas and shape them to our own likeing, well that would be the end of art full stop.
The exciting thing about the visual arts is that the result is subjective. Some of the world's most well known photographs are hated by some - this is simply because human perception varies from one person to another. If you believe in people having different viewpoints, then they should be allowed to express them, in this case visually.
And just because you might not like a result, that doesn't mean to say that it has no value. What I find in my own results is that, while I might hate them, the customer might love them. Being commercial - that relevant.
So thanks Jean and thanks dpreview for creating this section of the site - also for not including a don't like button which would have been so negative.
Skin needs to be retouched? Says who? Idiots who don't realise that we don't need images of non-existent perfection to aspire to. What is even the point of pretending we are something we aren't. The camera never lies but photoshop gives you a certain flexibility with the truth!
Hi there!! I agree with you... we should aim for all we can do with the camera. Still, one keeps trying to improove light conditions with flashes and WB compensations and all other stuff... ;) it was allready used in the dark room with chemicals and filters on the film!
'The camera never lies'? I live in a three-dimensional world. My photographs are two-dimensional. Guess I've been deluding myself all these years.
nice, thanks for this! :)
Just a point in passing. Working with a couple of images, one with flat lighting on the face and the other with higher contrast with strong facial shadow, the "red channel smoothing" technique does not work too well on the darker lit images - other smoothing operations (if smoothing is actually desired) should be used - possibly by editing red channel layer for luminosity. For the darker images, the luminosity bump becomes difficult to control unless you use a very low opacity on the smoothing layer and thereby largely defeating the smoothing operation.
The basic retouch operations are, of course, "spot on" :)
i very much enjoyed the tutorial... I learned a couple of new tricks despite using Photoshop for many years!
Just a very moderate use of the diffuse glow effect, would have been enough to brighten op this picture.
Diffuse glow can be very nice for skin. The effect is similar to this in that it both brightens and softens. And I agree that a "moderate" amount of Diffuse Glow can be very nice, although Diffuse Glow will tend to give more of a soft-focus/diffusion filter kind of effect.Try: Filter>Distort>Diffuse Glow - on a copy of the Red Channel Layer, after changing the blending mode to Luminosity. This provides both the benefits of the much nicer skin from the Red Channel and the "glowiosity" of Diffuse Glow.
Interesting article. My recap of what Jean said is:
1. Retouch the skin "as necessary"
2. Perform any other adjustments "as necessary".
3. Smooth the skin "as necessary"
The tutorial certainly presents a straight forward Photoshop technique to accomplish the above three steps. The presentation is well done, and the technique works well (I just edited an image using this style).
All in all, a well done article - certainly taught me some new things about Photoshop that I never knew about before.
The other thing it taught me is that the "retouching war" about appropriate retouching is as filled with opinionated and meaningless commentary just as the "camera war" is about the right tool for shooting.
Hi. Great tutorial but Im having problems at the last bit. Once i have made the 'select colour range' I'm not getting the 'Layer>Add Layer Mask>Reveal All' option only. Reveal all option is there but not 'Add Layer Mask'.
Thanks, Paulfk.
We want to add the layer mask to the layer we've created from the Red Channel, so make sure that's the active layer (highlighted in blue), once you've made your selection. With this layer active, it should be possible to add a layer mask using any of these three methods: 1) via the menu: Layer>Add Layer Mask>Reveal All. 2) By using the Masks Panel: click on the 'Add a pixel mask' icon. 3) By clicking on the 'Add Layer Mask' shortcut button at the bottom of the Layers Panel.
It's also possible that the "Layer>Add Layer Mask>Reveal All" menu item might be "grayed out" because a layer mask has already been added to the Red Channel layer. If that's the case, delete the mask, and proceed as above.
Hope that helps.
Thank you for sharing your technique, Jean. It is way more efficient than one I use. As for comments by some here questioning the need for doing such retouching I can only say that people find reasons to deliberate and dwell on everything, and in case at hand many forget that each of us (and for a women especially) has perception how we see ourself. More times than not reality of picture DOES NOT go alone with ones perception, and hence, unless photographer is working in documentary field, retouching is what allows to anwer such call. It is also a tool that bridges from documentary to art component of the still photography, IMHO. And, what a heck - many marriages were saved with its help too. :)
This is an excellent job of re-touching, and a great workflow through photoshop. Comments about it looking better before are just disingenuous. The lighting and radiance are better in the second version. so if you are judging a photo purely on its merits, the second one is superior. There was no liquify or pulling or stretching. The artist here took great pains to develop a workflow to keep skin texture and fade the lines and wrinkles back in. The next time I shoot a senior session for a high school kid with his acne that he is already self conscious about, I will have him call you and you can tell him why natural is better and how i shouldn't take it out.
I really think its sad that someone posts such a nice helpful tutorial and people jump all over it with a philosophical issue about beauty retouching. From my perspective, this is rather simplistic and quick way of retouching but it gets the job done nicely and is easy enough for most people to follow. People's preferences vary greatly in regards to how much retouching they want done just as some people prefer more or less makeup and hair styling coloring vs natural. I may or may not prefer any style but I know that there are some who do. When I retouch for a client, I ask for an example of how they want the work done. If they just say I want it perfect, it doesn't really tell me what I need to know because what is perfect to one is not perfect to another. BUT I have to know how to do retouching ranging from flawless perfection to a very natural look so that I can make all my clients happy.
Very nice tutorial.
The "red layer" trick is pretty effective and step-forward.
But I feel it could just as be reached by using the right exposure at the time of shooting. You can make a first measurement of light on your subject's skin tone then dial-in a +2/3E compensation to obtain a similar effect. Those with an Olympus camera can make sure face recognition is ON and don't even have to compensate exposure.
Thanks Jean. Nice article. Seems that some folks feel that retouching portraits makes them less desirable. I wonder how many of them have seen portraits of themselves that they like? My experience suggests we need all the help we can get when we document our faces for posterity. Thanks for the tips.
Have to agree with a lot of the sentiments here. Business and photography aside, she looks far more pretty without the photoshop disaster.
But then as a documentary photographer I don't make my money through the perpetuation of body dysmorphia so I guess I don't 'get it'.
I can't see the watermark that says "this is not real, this is a faked face" ? Perhaps less retouching and we would have less in the way of body image issues with the vulnerable out there ?
I use Alien Skin's Image Doctor 2, and it's unbelievable how well it works. Draw a circle around the blemish with the selection tool, run the filter, and you're done. It even preserves totally natural skin texture in the retouched area.
Useful info, BUT...
IMO the real beauty is in NATURAL skin, hair etc. The purpose of makeover is to HIGHLIGHT the beauty, not to mask bad-looking things. It you do not like your object, better do not shoot (unless you are after money). Or you could put a rubber mask on the model's face, that'd be perfect...
Nice article. I like the red channel technique as another/alternative method for skin smoothing.., I'm gonna try that when I get the chance. Thx
A lot of sensitive folks responding to this hot-topic/button issue regarding retouching portraits. I don't think the authors intent was to stir up a debate on whether you should do it or not or whether you agree with it or not..., simply a tutorial on some methods one could go about implementing if one would choose to do so. (But a nice debate anyway ;o)
This is just knowledge, techniques, information that we can either ignore, disregard or put into our tool kits for a day and time when it is useful..., but to call something fake or judge it based on your own rules or style is not fair either. I would have to ask.., if you are so against retouching of this nature, and don't do it, then why would you even bother to read the article? Just so you could tell everyone they are fake or sellouts for having their own style and workflow? - LOL
The article starts with the statement: "Skin needs to be retouched. Even beautiful skin with great makeup."
This article thus starts with a value judgement, after which it addresses the technical issues to achieve the goal set by the judgement in the opening sentence. I have no issue whatsoever with the rest of the article, but starting like that is kind of weird.
And you feel that you express no value judgement in your response? It's amazing how we all we all see 1 subject, scene, whatever so differently - I think that's what makes us 'individuals'
Nice article - If I did not appreciate it, I would not respopnd, I would continue doing things as I have always done and never opting to learn - but that's just me, acting like an individual.
Good article, However, I think I can get 80% of the improvements using LR3 or ACR 6.x in much less time.
1. Use the clone/heal brush for pimples, blemishes, moles, and other localized skin flaws.
2. AdjustmentBrush with -50 to -55% for both Clarity and Sharpness. 75% feathering and Flow. Then no more than 30 seconds softening wrinkles, pores, bags-under-eyes, and other skin flaws. With people 40+ years old, I often include -5 to -10% de-Saturation in the AdjustmentBrush.
3. With .dng's or raw .cr2's/.nef's/etc, all changes are reversible and can use snap-shots. Also, you don't have the huge .tif or .psd files with multiple layers.
4. Granted, these simple retouches won't be sufficient for an art director with a model for advertising. I find them more or less adequate for "normal-walk-of-life" people who appreciate looking like they just got back from a restful vacation. Few people want to look like their early morning reflection in the bathroom mirror.
Her retouched eye looks fake. Sorry but as a painter, and someone who draws portraits as well as photograph portraits I think he went too far.
I use either Canon 1DsMkII FF DSLR and Canon 85mm f/1.2 at f/1.2 or a crop sensored DSLR. Sometimes I use the Canon 135 f/2 L at f/2.
Also I use the FF DSLR Kodak SLR/n with Nikon Ai 85mm f/2 at f/2.
These provide the softening of the details that woman require. Because used wide open on FF the DOF is so slight everything but the pupil in the eye's is getting softer the further you move from the focal point of the pupil of the eye.
But go ahead use his techniques woman will love you for it and you will save money by not purchasing a true portrait lens and camera. Just do not over do it.
Love all the "i hate retouching" and "In my county, women don't wear makeup" comments. Now that you can show your comment to your girlfriend, wife, significant other, friends, etc. so they can see what a sensitive, politically correct, western zen person you are, let's get back to reality.
If you want to be a professional portrait/beauty/fashion photographer, you will be doing this to some extent, or you won't be making money.
Please realize that by choosing what lighting, focal length, f-stop,background, etc you will be using, you have already retouched the person. Do you take portraits of someone when they roll out of bed in the morning? That is about as natural as they can get. Photoshop is just another tool. You either learn how to use it, or you are behind in the game.. Just learn some discretion, as mentioned in the article.
Great tutorial.
"...let's get back to reality." Funny stuff ;)
Made a living as a portrait photographer doing my "retouching" with lights, film selection, dark room work and optics alone. Yeah I know I am old (37), it was before Photoshop became widely adopted.
That said, I think you are confusing a lot of different things here. For some people a beauty shot does not include a plastic look. There is quite some distance between a face full of morning and acne to the polished ceramic look that has become the standard today, I would say. Surely it has become a necessity to achieve this, for editorial work today. Thankfully not all magazines find it pleasing to eradicate every last bit of personality from peoples skin.
I just find it funny that photographers do not feel the least bit responsible for perpetuating this impossible and unattainable look. And I do know that photography is essentially manipulation. What I don´t like is the current visual discourse and its effect on young people.
Uh, I'm 43. Been in a darkroom since I was 5. So, retouching with film and developer selections and print manipulation is different from photoshop. Yeah. Shooting B&W with a 25 red and opening up a stop or two, then burning and dodging in the darkroom is really different. Right. Oh, and that Zeiss Softar doesn't count either. Come on.
Responsible for perpetuating this unattainable look? Perhaps we should destroy all classical sculpture/paintings for perpetuating this unattainable look.
For editorial work today? Where have you been for the last 37 years? I didn't realize editorial shots weren't retouched 'till photoshop came around.
I never said anything about going for a plastic or ceramic look. Notice the phrases "to some extent" and "learn some discretion." If someone shows up with a big pimple on the end of their nose, or severely blotchy skin, you wouldn't fix it? Even if your client asked you to? Please.
When I do this (which I dont, unless its really necessary) - duplicate layer, Nik Color Efex - Dynamic Skin Softener - tweak as you wish, apply, remove anything you dont like by masking layer, tweak transparence and merge. Finished in few minutes or faster..
Ofc there are ways to get pretty natural look, usually involving bit of LAB and palette work.
Easiest is simply to have good model, with good skin and great makeup, saves you a loads of time..
'Beauty Retouching' Absolutely nonsense!
The retouche of beautiness will provide ugliness.
I like all these "it's too plastic/barbie doll look" comments. This tute actually retains a lot of the original detail unlike most magazines or ads do.
I too like natural. That's why I don't let any of my 3 wives wear lipstick, foundation, eye liner, and other makeup. They just have to deal with the perpetual downward spiral of lookin' like an old hag. There's no reason for them to "pretty it up" for any occasion.
Whitening toothpaste is made from the devil. Regular toothpaste is fine...
this is awesome.
I swear, the snobs are out in full force. I will say, if you don't like retouching, then please huff and puff elsewhere. It's such a foolish arguement considering that it's an absolute necessity in the industry. Really, I'm laughing my butt off reading these comments. Some folks are either nuts or just plain dumb. No disrespect to any poster but I think we have just entered bizzarro world.
Wtf lol, no retouching...hahaha nice ;)
"Some folks are either nuts or just plain dumb"
And some others insist on lying all the time. Because retouching is lying.
"we have just entered bizzarro world"
Indeed we have; in all magazines, whether for men or women, people see unreal dolls' photos that are miles away from reality. No skin marks, no wrinkles, glaring white teeth. Not to mention "adjusted" thighs and buttocks. It's bizarre indeed. And - again - lying.
"Skin needs to be retouched. Even beautiful skin with great makeup."
How can anybody write this without stopping and asking "Hey, what the hell did I just write?" I understand that people retouch their photographs, but stating that it needs to be done is ridiculous.
Virtually any professional (excluding photojournalists) who ever takes a portrait of someone, male or female, will have to do some edits to skin, even if its just hiding a single blemish. That's as much a part of the job as configuring the lighting setup.
But that is not what Jean Miele is claiming. His opening statement is not about hiding blemishes or doing some edits, but it is about that the real look of skin should be converted into something else. It might seem to be a subtle difference, but it is not. I do not oppose hiding blemishes, but saying (a priori) that skin needs to be retouched is a bigger claim than it might seem, and, to me, a problematic symptom of a possibly harmful confusion of the real and the virtual.
Oh please. I am a street shooter and go for documentary truth.
But the human eye does not see skin the way a lens does. Simple fact.
When I shoot portraits of people I care about, I make the minimal appropriate adjustment, including skin softening if needed. It is not lying. It is recreating the effect of standing before them.
It is very simple minded to think that photography, like poetry, has anything to do with 'truth.' That is the biggest lie of all. Books have been written about this. Wise books. The 'truthfulness' of the photograph is the biggest illusion of all.
I think you are confusing two things here.
Indeed, a photograph is not a true representation of the world. In that sense, there is no truth in photographs. Photography is about what to photograph, at what time, with what settings, et cetera. Photography, thus, is about the choices of the photographer.
In this case, I do not agree with the choices of Jean Miele. More specific; I do not agree with his value judgement. This has little to do with truth or lies, and is no critique either on retouching in itself. It is a critique on a way of thinking that, in my eyes, can be harmful, and therefore should be challenged.
I think the arguments pro and con are not absolute, but a personal decision of the photographer, the client (or audience) and the subject. What I take away from a wonderful technical piece such as Jean's is a work flow and technique that I can apply to my own work, in my own way. I do not begrudge an author's point of view...or editorial license. The one sharing these valuable lessons has a right to that. He may or may not agree with how his techniques are used by you, by me or by others, but his teaching has definitely influenced how I approach editing in photoshop and has given me new insights into photoshop technique and a new arsenal of tools that I can apply in many situations, for portraits and beyond.
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It's been twenty years since Jeff Keller founded the Digital Camera Resource Page, one of the first websites dedicated to digital photography. Jeff, who has been at DPReview for nearly five years, looks back at the rise and fall of consumer digital cameras and his website.
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Leica has just released the CL, the forth in its series of APS-C L-mount cameras. Despite sharing a name with a camera released in the mid-70s, the new CL is a thoroughly modern ILC, with a 24MP sensor and built-in electronic viewfinder.
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I have to complete my assignment and i need help...
These are two simple shell script programs :
1.) Write a shell script to display files in the current directory in the following format :
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2.) Write a shell script to display the following menu. It should take following action when an option is selected.
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In a room with no windows on the coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Posing as a water expert to report on al-Qaeda activity in the area, he now faces extreme privation, mock executions, and forced marches through the arid badlands of Somalia.
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Both are drawn back to the previous Christmas, and to a French hotel on the Atlantic coast, where a chance encounter on the beach led to an intense and enduring romance. For James, his mind escapes to utopias both imagined and remembered. Danny is drawn back to beginnings: to mythical and scientific origins, and to her own. It is to each other and to the ocean that they most frequently return: magnetic and otherworldly, a comfort and a threat.
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Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad received his first Oscar nod for 2005's "Paradise Now," a tense drama that chronicled the last days of two suicide bombers. He now has a second foreign language nomination for "Omar," an involving film in which he stacks the reality of Israeli occupation alongside everyday life in the West Bank.
Adam Bakri plays Omar, a baker by trade, who in order to visit his friends must scale the Israeli-built security wall that divides Palestinian towns. Also on the opposite side of the wall is the girl he loves, Nadia (Leem Lubany), who he hopes to marry and take on a Parisian honeymoon.
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And slowly but surely they are being picked off. "Improved" is the rationale I'm sure.
But changing them kills the nostalgia stone dead.
Which one is it this time?
Maybe it's the repetition... seeing the same ad repeatedly anchors it into your mind. I bet that's it!
Anyway... beware... because the list that I've compiled below is incredibly addictive.
Especially the ads with the jingles... be warned.
I was wracking my brains trying to think what would be fun to write about in the pre-Christmas rush... and I decided to go for 100% nostalgia.
I bet these bring back some memories (and if you're too young to remember them then I'll have some newer ads later this week.They don't make them like this anymore...
Far too well.
It was a truly horrible time.
Read more to find out why...
Back in the day I was one of those little boys who owned a Sinclair Spectrum.
As one of the early adopters of one of these dead flesh keyboard beauts so it was only a 16k entry level machine. My brother later bought a "super powerful" 48k Spectrum (that's about a billionth of the capacity of your average phone these days).From then on I was forever envious at the quality of the games that he could play on his computer (because of its much larger memory) compared to the much more basic efforts that I could play on mine. (but even then I marvel now at quite how the programmers in the 1980s were able to cram such a lot into such a tiny memory space).
A Quarter Of decided to revisit some Hollywood classics and see how the subtle use of product placement could have made these films that much sweeter. Which one would you like to see?
Some brands get this part so, so wrong (take note Haribo with this stinker for Super Mix in 2011, whilst – as we can see from our top five - some get it very, very right.
And don't forget, many of the sweeties listed below are available from A Quarter Of right now!
So, without further ado, here is our top five of TV ad triumphs
And the top 10 is... in reverse order...
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#9 Valerie Singleton
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#7 Noel Edmonds
#6 John Craven
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#4= Johnny Morris
#3 Johnny Ball
#2 John Noakes
And the winner is...
We're in the top 10 now... so each of these names are well and truly in the nostalgic television Hall of Fame. And certainly 2 of the names below have been mentioned in the comments on my last blog post.
And so, without further ado I give you...
The results are in... and they've been carefully counted.
So finally I can share with you the results of our poll to find the brilliantest (I know it's not a word really, but it just feels fitting here), most nostalgic person on British children's television EVER!
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Win7 taskbar buttons questions
Is there a limit to the number of buttons that you can have on your taskbar?
Why can't I add MS Outlook 2007 button?
I am running Win7 64-bit on a new hp p6240f w/8GB Memory and an Intel Q8300 quad-core chip. I have no problem adding buttons for other MS Office 2007 apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint. But Outlook 2007 will not let me pin itself to the taskbar.
I have nine buttons already on the taskbar, including the other Office apps mentioned above.
I also seem to have a problem pinning several other apps to the taksbar. Do all of the pinned apps need to be 64-bit or can you pin 32-bit as well.
Any assistance or guidance will be most appreciated.
Thank you.
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|15 Dec 2009
Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit | Windows 8 Pro - 64-bit
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You could follow this tutorial
Hope that helps
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|15 Dec 2009
W7x64 Pro, SuSe 12.1/** W7 x64 Pro, XP MCE
If no other way, you could add them via the Quick Launch bar or by adding a toolbar with a shortcut to the program(s).
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The Next: Fame Is At Your Doorstep
The Next: Fame Is At Your Doorstep is a famous tv show on the CW that takes you into the lives of several performers who have always wanted to become successful musicians. The music industry usually begins being the opening act of a singer or performer. This show takes some of the best opening and intermission acts of several singers, and they actually make them into aspiring artists with their own concerts. The winner of the show earns a recording contract with Atlantic Records.
The show does not find talent through usage of auditions or anything of the like. They find artists that have pure experience with performing and have big social media fan bases but have never made big changes in their life to become big musicians.
The show begins by having the four main mentors; Joe Jonas, Nelly, John Rich, and Gloria Estefan actually going to the homes of several musicians. They spend 72 hours with their one singer in a single city who is in the same music genre as themselves, and then they perform at a local venue. The mentors then go onto another city until they get 6 winners from 6 different places. You will find that this show really does take you to a wide range of different lives of musicians who try their best to make it onto the big scene. Being famous is not easy, and neither is it to try and be famous. With this show, you will finally get to see how some people make their dreams a reality. The show has garnered great ratings, but it wasn't a huge success the way the producers have wanted.
The Next is a great show that can teach people the fact that fame can happen even though it does take time. Many singers have found this show intriguing compared to other shows that are out there. The Next has some big stars as mentors, so if you like seeing Joe Jonas or Gloria Estefan on television, this show may be interesting for you.
The Next: Fame Is At Your Doorstep Full Episode Guide
- Episode 9 - Finale
In the first-season finale, the five finalists compete and a winner is crowned and given a recording contract with Atlantic Records.
- Episode 8 - Semi-Finals: Round 2
The six remaining contestants battle it out in the second round of the semifinals.
- Episode 7 - Semi-Finals: Round 1
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The judges mentor their contestants: Jeremy, Krystle, Tilky and Angela.
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Joe Jonas turns to finger painting; Gloria Estefan takes on extreme bike riding; John Rich shows up at a contestant's bachelorette party; and Nelly creates a motivational tape.
- Episode 4 - Chicago
Gloria Estefan performs at a Chicago Cubs game. Nelly ambushes his contestant while he's on a date. Joe Jonas is educated in women's shoes. John Rich performs at a fundraiser at the L' Station.
- Episode 3 - New York
The mentors work with their contestants. John Rich rides a horse through New York City; Joe Jonas bonds with a contestant's Italian family; Gloria Estefan makes a surprise entrance at a nail salon; and Nelly gives wardrobe advice to a contestant.
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The X Factor single Hero spent a second week at number one in the singles chart on Sunday.
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Beyonce won the 'battle of the divas' by bagging the number two spot, while Britney Spears went in at number four and Leona Lewis entered the charts at five.
Girls Aloud are at number three, while their album Out of Control shot straight to number one in the album chart.
The group knocked US singer Pink off the top spot to number two, while her single So What remained at number ten.
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Teen Girl Discovers Why You Never Want to Sit Next to Justin Bieber
STORY BY Jessica Elizabeth Pawlarczyk
Published: July 7, 2013
Besides making preteen girls swoon, superstar singer Justin Bieber has another super power: fame by proximity.
College student Haleigh Youtie found out the true strength of Biebs's celebrity status when she wound up sitting next to him at a Miami Heat basketball game. The paparazzi and press quickly jumped on the fact that Justin was sitting next to a pretty brunette that was not Selena Gomez, and unsurprisingly, they started a plethora of rumors about Haleigh. (The most common rumor of course was that Haleigh was Bieb's date to the game.)
Haleigh has denied such rumors and simply says that she randomly sat next to Bieber due to luck… Or perhaps a lack of it.
After instagraming a photo of herself with Justin, the once-average teen was boosted to stardom.
"I check at the game, and I have 1,000 follower requests. Literally, people finding out all my info and liked. Twelve-year-old fan page girls were like, 'We're going to come beat you up,'" she said.
Reportedly, the amount of threats she received was enough to make her feel unsafe and leave the game early. Additionally, Haleigh had to immediately change all of her social media accounts to private.
"Literally, I was honestly scared for my life," she said.
Haleigh also shared with WSVN News that Bieber wasn't exactly the "friendliest" person. She tried to strike up a conversation with the singer several times, but "he just wasn't feeling it." Bieber sat stone-faced through most of the game, avoiding Haleigh's small talk and answering her with one-word responses.
"It was just really uncomfortable," Haleigh said.
Oh we bet.
In addition to being annoying in a general sense, you can now see that the Biebs has another character flaw — fame by osmosis— that gives the public another reason to be over the once-popular performer. More importantly, it's about reason # 1000 that I'm not a "Belieber."
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That's a new one for me.
I wonder: if the problem lies on the motherboard, why would buying a new keyboard solve it?
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easy fix
I had the same problem my keyboard worked in bios setup [DEL] but not in boot menu [F12] easy fix,
1. enter bios setup (for me pressed [DEL]) yours maybe [esc] or [F2]
2. check the menu and select (for me it is) INTERGRATED PERIPHERALS, for you it maybe something similar.
3. go down the menu and check for USB KEYBOARD SUPPORT, make sure it says [ENABLED] if not change it.
4. then save and exit
now it all works in boot menu, and I can now boot from cd,
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easy fix works!!!
The information provided by juice619 was very helpful. I could not understand why the keyboard would work with the same motherboard in a recent build and not my build.
So juice619 steps were translated to Peripherals / Port 60/64 Emulation: Disable (Enables I/O Port 60h/64h emulation support. This should be enabled for the complete USB keyboard legancy support for non-USB aware OSes.
I had it enabled therefor no keyboard use in boot loader. Windows 7 Pro 64 bit is USB aware.
Many thanks!
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TDP-43 is the principal component of ubiquitin-positive inclusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U). Mutations in the gene encoding TDP-43 have been identified in ALS and FTLD with or without motor neuron disease, providing a direct link between TDP-43 and neurodegeneration. Of note, TDP-43 pathology is observed to varying degrees in other neurodegenerative disorders. For instance, TDP-43 inclusions are present in up to 56% of Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases. As with ALS and FTLD-U, the cytosolic deposition of TDP-43 in AD is associated with the presence of abnormally phosphorylated TDP-43 (pTDP-43) and C-terminal TDP-43 fragments (cTDP). Compared to AD patients without TDP-43 pathology, those with TDP-43 pathology are cognitively and functionally worse, suggesting that abnormal TDP-43 causes a modified AD phenotype. Therapeutics that target TDP-43 may thus prove beneficial for this subset of AD patients in addition to ALS and FTLD-U patients. As treatments are investigated, it is essential to prepare for diagnostic issues that will arise when compounds are ready for clinical trials. In the evaluation of new treatments for ALS, FTLD-U and AD, it would be advantageous to be able to distinguish between patients with and without TDP-43 pathology. Thus, the development of antemortem assays that recognize TDP-43 proteinopathies is greatly needed. Moreover, the refinement of biomarker assays is a key strategy, not only for aiding with diagnosis of disease, but also for generating more sensitive measures of disease activity and progression. We hypothesize that the presence of TDP-43-positive inclusions in ALS, FTLD-U and AD suggests that TDP-43 levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma will parallel TDP-43 brain pathology. Moreover, we believe that the sensitivity and utility of TDP-43 as a biomarker may be enhanced by developing enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) that detect pathological forms of TDP-43, such as pTDP-43 and cTDP. Therefore, we generated polyclonal antibodies towards pTDP-43 and cTDP and propose to produce similar monoclonal antibodies, as these are critical for the development of reproducible assays with future clinical applications. Using our novel antibodies, we aim to develop sensitive ELISAs for the detection of total and pathological TDP-43 which will be used, together with immunohistochemical analysis of brain TDP-43 pathology, to assess whether pathologically modified TDP-43 in CSF and/or plasma is a reliable indicator of brain TDP-43 pathology in ALS, FTLD-U and AD. Importantly, given that longitudinal data is very limited, we will use both plasma and CSF collected longitudinally from ALS patients to examine pathological TDP-43 levels in relation to clinical presentation and rate of disease progression.
The refinement of biomarkers is a key strategy for elucidating the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and for developing sensitive measures of disease activity and progression. Overall, the goals of this project are to generate sensitive assays to measure pathologically modified TDP-43 in biological fluids and to validate their use as an urgently needed tool for diagnosing and monitoring the progression of TDP-43 proteinopathies, like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia with ubiquitin-positive inclusions and Alzheimer's disease cases having TDP-43 pathology. Ultimately, such antemortem assays will provide a molecular basis for improving the early diagnosis of TDP-43 proteinopathies, which is important for the correct clinical management of patients, as well as provide a more efficient and objective evaluation of experimental therapies in clinical trials.
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Arctostaphylos glauca. BIG BERRY MANAZANITA. California
Arctostaphylos manzanita. MANZANITA. California
ERICACEAE (Heath family)
See tree-sized specimens of Arctostaphylos manzanita in the Junipero Serra Boulevard greenbelt east of Stanford Avenue. There is nothing straight about this 6- to 20-foot-tall native plant; the crooked branches are covered with attractive deep-red bark. A recent planting (5/6/06) of another tree-form manzanita Arctostaphylos glauca is in the California Garden at Roth and Lomita. Cultivated varieties of the related California native A. densiflora are widely planted as low to medium-high hedges. Manzanitas normally have pale-pink to white, urn-shaped flowers resembling those of Arbutus species. The large red berries are edible, were eaten by Native Americans, and are tasty to bears, which is where the connection with the Arctic comes in. From the Greek viewpoint, bears inhabited the north ('arktos' means bear and also the constellation of the Great Bear, Ursa Major). 'Staphylos' meant, and still means, grape; hence the common name bear-berry. There are probably 75 native species in California, many of which grow in the Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Tilden Park and other local botanical gardens and arboreta.
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Name derivation, genus | species Arctostaph'ylos: from two Greek words arktos, "bear," and staphule, "a bunch of grapes" | glauca: from the Greek meaning "bluish-gray." California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations, Compiled by Michael L. Charters.Related material: SHRF Plant Culture Data Sheets for Arctostaphylos | treatment from the Jepson Manual
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If you are considering a career in dentistry you may be asking yourself " what do you need to become a dentist? " Well, what you need to become a dentist is an investment of approximately 10 years of your life to education and training.
Following good GCSE and A levels grades, a budding dentist would embark on either a BDS, MChd, BChd course at university (Bachelor or Master of Dental Surgery Course). The course would take a minimum of five years to complete and would cover a variety of scientific subjects including pathology, anatomy and biochemistry.
Many universities have a department specialising in this chosen area called a School of Dentistry. To become a dentist you will need the completed degree qualification and a registration with the General Dentist Council.
Armed with a degree in dentistry, you would work under supervision at an established dental practice. This vocational training would take place for a minimum of 12 months. There are a number of career paths available to a qualified dentist including becoming a general practitioner based in an NHS or private practice.
On a daily basis a general practitioner would meet with patients and examine them, advising them of correct oral hygiene procedures and treating any problems with their gums and teeth as they occur. The latest technology is used by a dentist to perform examinations and x-rays and perform root canal surgeries, extractions and fit crowns or dentures where necessary.
As well as the possibility of becoming a general practitioner, there are other opportunities available to a qualified dentist including cosmetic dentistry where higher salaries can be expected or community work where the focus is on the education of the public at community forums and schools or treating individuals in their own homes.
To become a dentist in a hospital further vocational training would be required however, there are opportunities to work on more complex situations including jaw and facial abnormalities and reconstruction.
A career in dentistry is a solid choice for a calm and personable individual who communicates well and has a desire to educate.
There is currently demand for individuals in this field so it is a great time to enrol in the training to become a dentist and start the course to a career that can reward you with a salary of approximately £80,000 per year.
So, as you can see in answer to the question – what do you need to become a dentist? – there are many steps and plenty of training involved, however once complete you will be remunerated well for your hard work.


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Disability Awareness Sunday - Artist, poet and church worker Rhonda Swenson gives artistic expression to living with multiple disabilities, including cerebral palsy and specific learning disability. And her 'disproportionate cross'... a large wooden cross in which the crooked angle of the horizontal bar represents her personal response to living with disability in the so-called 'normal' world is an example of her participation in the Christian community. She talks to Mike Gourley about Disability Awareness Sunday and efforts to help congregations engage more fully with disabled people.