well i recently was trying to put make up on a "no make up" photo, and to remove the dark circles, this is the best i could get:
but i had some problems, firstable as i dont know anything about make up, i had my girlfriend help me out telling me what i must do and what colors to use, but photoshop works different than real life so i found some stuff a little hard to achieve.so the dark circles under the eyes, i googled some techniques to remove them and all i found was to use the healing brush and the patch tool, with were both super useless to fix this problem, it just creates an even bigger problem when i use them regarldless of the settings, so i dropped that technique and decided to go with a long one just painting over her face with low opacity brushes, but i guess there must be a better way to fix this, so maybe one of you has tried this once before and has come with a better solution.also for the make up stuff like her cheeks i feel like the colors werent right, like it looks too fake, so i wish someone could tell me a good way to make up or maybe provide a link to a good tutorial for this :), if links are against the rules a PM should work just fine :).notice i didnt take much time to go into details i didnt even use my tablet for this, i just wanted to check on settings and what process to use like layer blending modes, and opacities or filters.ETA: im posting this in fx instead of photography because its more related to post-editing so i guess it fits better here.[Edited by User on 1/24/2012 1:14:06 AM]
Clone and healing tools are great tools especially in CS5, Now I am no expert but with the clone tool try changing the settings - use current layer instead of the others unless you sampling from a separate layer.With the Spot healing tool and healing tool if you not getting what you want on content aware try proximity match and also unselect sample all layers.You also have different blend modes to chose from.Also you can use dodge and burn tools to lighten and darken the skin tones remember to use soft brushes and low opacity setting and work you way up.Also Google non-destructive dodge and burn techniques -these use 50% gray layer set to overlay to dodge and burn with out destroying pixels.When applying makeup I think the best is to use a layer set to color blend mode and spray on the makeup using a very soft low opacity low flow brush and again just going over it untill you work up to the effect you looking for.Anyway hopefully some of the geniuses on this site will give you some better info than this but it should put you in the right area. :D
thanks :) thats pretty much all what i tried, im ok with the way lighting and shading works, the problem is the skin tones, i cant get it right with healing brishes, im gonna try cloning though, sounds like an interesting idea i didnt try, also for the color blending mode, it didint really worked as it keeps the current tone and changes it, but when you apply make up you are trying to get different tones, you even get a different texture, so its been really hard to get a final result that is good enough for me.anyways thank you a lot :).
I'm not a big fan of the healing brush either, and find it hard to get good result other than when fixing very small areas.When I encounter dark areas under the eyes, I instead create a group with two layers. One empty layer with "color" blend mode and a curves layer.For the color blend mode, I clone in nearby skin over the dark areas to get the color I want. I end with applying gaussian blur to it so I get a nice consistent color. For the curves layer, I raise the lightness so it matches the skin around.Then I just use a layer mask so that only the dark areas are affected. This doesn't create a perfect result as you can see below. However, touching up the image now is quite easy, no matter if you use clone tool or healing brush.
This is what works for me. I have never seen a tutorial about it so it might be just me.
well it looks like a very good technique, im going to try it out when i have time, however i like a lot the results you got, now there is only the cheeks make up question to be solved :)
For the cheeks, I would just use a layer with blend mode color and paint in a desired color. Make it consistent on both side and if you think the color is slightly off, adjust in hue/sat afterwards.
Here's another easy method that might work for you. Select each area individually (that I have highlighted) with the lasso tool. Copy and paste each area onto separate layers. Use the Hue/saturation tool to change the hue of the eyeshadow and cheek to green and red hues. Use the brightness/contrast tool to increase the lightness of the area under the eye, then the dodge tool to increase the lightness in the darkest area. Then use a very soft eraser to feather the edges into the background layer. Also adjust the opacity of each layer to give you the amount of change desired. Hope I explained it correctly.
[Edited by User on 1/25/2012 2:17:08 PM]