Shiny skin, can you PP it out?

[snerkler]

I've just taken some portraits for work (website etc) and one of the girl's has quite shiny skin. I've tweaked highlights and recovery (in aperture) but it's far from perfect. Is there a way to remove shiny skin in LR and/or Aperture? Skin smoothing has also helped a little, but again not perfect.

 

[shotokan101]

have you tried reducing the whites a little and/or painting over with the clone brush ?

 

[CFC1]

Did you sample a dry area of skin approximately the same colour and brush it over the shiny area at 20% opacity or so?

 

[snerkler]

Nope, will try that thanks

 

[yogibear123]

You could try perfect effects 8 either on its own or embedded in lightroom (if you have it), go to portrait enhancer then shine reducer.

 

[snerkler]

You could try perfect effects 8 either on its own or embedded in lightroom (if you have it), go to portrait enhancer then shine reducer.

Thanks, will have a look at that too. Not played with perfect effects yet other than looking at presets.

 

[snerkler]

have you tried reducing the whites a little and/or painting over with the clone brush ?

After a bit of experimenting I found that repair worked better than clone (in Aperture at least), with some softness and opacity on the brush. Thanks for the advice.

Whilst on this subject, I much prefer the way aperture does clone/repair, but was wondering if there is a way to get LR to work the same. At present in LR I brush over the area I want to clone/repair and then LR selects an area to sample from, which I can then move if I'm not happy with it. However, in aperture I can preselect where I want the sample to be taken from, and as I brush I can see a cross from the sample section and watch it move as I brush so I can make sure I'm not going to go over an area I don't want. Can you do this in LR?

 

[shotokan101]

This is a good tutorial on using local adjustments inc. clone/heal - pay attention to the mask info. especially custom mask shapes etc. - LR5 also has a mask adjustment tool but as you know I'm not familiar with that

#CreativeFriday – Editing your pictures with local adjustments using Lightroom

 

[Deleted member 27989]

You can always put an arty texture canvas trash filter over her photo