Smoothing is one thing. Here you have eliminated all texture. This is akin to using a Gaussian Blur of about 3.5. I have used Photoshop since 1990 and I usually find your articles useful. This one is way off the mark, however.
Submitted by lizardman on Tue, 03/16/2004 - 10:42.
It is a super idea but its so blurry. I understand about the history brush, but would it help the blurriness and glow around the edges of face? sincerely, Jan
I agree that the results don't look quite as nice as I'd hoped. It is interesting that this article came to us from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), sponsors of PhotoshopWorld, Their stuff is usually reliable, so not sure what happened here.
Too many steps! Try this:
1) Gaussian Blur @ about 4 (will depend on your file size)
2) Take snapshot
3) Edit>Undo Blur
4) Ctrl/CMD Y (history brush)
5) Make snapshot (blurred state)active
6) Set opacity of brush to approx 20%
7) Simply paint, avoiding eyes & lips--where ever you paint will be soft. Want it softer? Paint more or change opacity.
Steve Bohne
First of all, the retouched photo in your article looks awful. Why bother with the Healing Brush if the results look like you just Blurred the heck out of the image.
Second, I followed your instructions step by step, and my image looked worse than awful. Perhaps your tutorial needs some refinement.
If that's a good example of 'after' this technique I don't think I'll bother using it. Looks like badly applied make-up. Let's see something that actually looks good.
that's a terrible example, it looks like it was done by someone who just got the Photoshop program! Learn to use masks/layers and gaussian blur first! wow I can't believe this is actually a tutorial! Ah
i honestly think that this tutorial is useless. sooo not worth even tryin. modifying the median of the noise under filter and than the surface blur than erasing the modification of the eyes and mouth(eyebrows ears, etc) is sooo much easier and it has better results.
I've created a Photoshop Action for a profesional own technique to dramatically smooth out the big bumps, and re-apply the pores back later.
You can download it from my wordpress blog socialblogsitewebdesign.com
Retouch
Useless results!
All Texture Lost
Smoothing is one thing. Here you have eliminated all texture. This is akin to using a Gaussian Blur of about 3.5. I have used Photoshop since 1990 and I usually find your articles useful. This one is way off the mark, however.
smoothing face
It is a super idea but its so blurry. I understand about the history brush, but would it help the blurriness and glow around the edges of face? sincerely, Jan
OK, OK!
I agree that the results don't look quite as nice as I'd hoped. It is interesting that this article came to us from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), sponsors of PhotoshopWorld, Their stuff is usually reliable, so not sure what happened here.
Pamela Pfiffner, editor in chief
is it me?
or does the finished article look truly dreadful?
This is ok, but better ways to do it...
Too many steps! Try this:
1) Gaussian Blur @ about 4 (will depend on your file size)
2) Take snapshot
3) Edit>Undo Blur
4) Ctrl/CMD Y (history brush)
5) Make snapshot (blurred state)active
6) Set opacity of brush to approx 20%
7) Simply paint, avoiding eyes & lips--where ever you paint will be soft. Want it softer? Paint more or change opacity.
Steve Bohne
Poor results
This technique provides poor results for skin tones, however, there may be other applications better suited than "smoothing skin" for this technique.
Wrong timing?
Maybe it's an April Fool that went in too early...
What A Waste of Time
First of all, the retouched photo in your article looks awful. Why bother with the Healing Brush if the results look like you just Blurred the heck out of the image.
Second, I followed your instructions step by step, and my image looked worse than awful. Perhaps your tutorial needs some refinement.
A Photoshop user since 1995.
What a mess
If that's a good example of 'after' this technique I don't think I'll bother using it. Looks like badly applied make-up. Let's see something that actually looks good.
terrible
that's a terrible example, it looks like it was done by someone who just got the Photoshop program! Learn to use masks/layers and gaussian blur first! wow I can't believe this is actually a tutorial! Ah
k, so..
i honestly think that this tutorial is useless. sooo not worth even tryin. modifying the median of the noise under filter and than the surface blur than erasing the modification of the eyes and mouth(eyebrows ears, etc) is sooo much easier and it has better results.
Isn't there a tool exactly for that in PS?
I've created a Photoshop Action for a profesional own technique to dramatically smooth out the big bumps, and re-apply the pores back later.
You can download it from my wordpress blog socialblogsitewebdesign.com
bah... this is the most
bah... this is the most horrible technique ever ! it does not work, go back to school mate
Absolutely horrible tutorial.
Absolutely horrible tutorial.