Skin with Topaz
Retouching skin is always a “problem” you can do it with dodge and burn but that takes a long time or you can use a plugin. I’ve been using Imagenomic Portraiture for a while and have been very happy. However the last few weeks I’ve been playing more and more with Topaz Clean and made the switch for 90% of our skin this week.
Enclosed two examples of before and after, this is PRE-RETOUCH, in other words, straight out of the camera and with Topaz, in final re-touch there will still be changes of course. But to be honest it already looks pretty good.
You can change settings yourself like structure and the way it does the smoothing, very nice. If you don’t know Topaz yet, check them out, otherwise, make sure you get Clean3 you’re gonna love it.
Link to their webstore : http://www.topazlabs.com/716.html and indeed we do have an affiliate relation, but I wouldn’t promote it if I didn’t think it rocked 😀
Click on the images for a 1:1 view.
Is it possible to include a 1:1 from Portraiture? I would really like to see the difference between the plugins using the same image.
Could be but it varies a bit per model, best is to download a demo and see what’s gonna work for you, what I like about Topaz is the addition to structure and the way it detects the skin. But as mentioned before they both are top end for me.
Do you think it is better than the skin tool of cep from NIK ?
Yes.
I have been using it in the last few weeks too and loving it…..
Frank, I know I am asking toooooo much, but what about a quick tutorial on the matter? 🙂
Hi
Look for my Topaz webinar. In that one I also showed the use if clean3.
On http://www.youtube.com/frankdoorhof I uploaded the tutorial, sorry it took a little while 😀