Photo Retouching

[owens81]

Hi I am trying to retouch photos and eliminate shadows and blemishes and to make pictures look sexy. I have worked with tools like clone and layermasks to get color and fix blemishes. layers with opacity. Is there any other tools i should be playing around with too make photos look real good and glossy. What do you use?

[jerolcom]

The healing brush is good. If you have PS CS, maybe also in 7.0, I'm not sure, look at the Fill/Adjustment Layer... Photo Filters.

[owens81]

Thanks man ill look into that , im just wondering about rules are we alowed to post semi nude pics?

[jerolcom]

I see you have posted another msg very similar to this one. I'll anser how to post images on the other msg.

I would not post semi-nude images here but it depends on what semi-nude means. I have seen some barely-clad images of fantasy figures, etc, but in my short time at the Cafe I have not seen nudity. And there are young people here.

[Digi Pixie]

Another trick you can use if you want your pics nice & glossy, & to generally give them added depth, is to fill a layer above with 50% grey, set blending mode to overlay, & paint on it using dodge & burn with a soft airbrush...apply some guassian blur to smooth it out maybe, when you're done.