Christians86
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[FONT="]ok - before I used to go a bit too much for softening in every picture. Usually I started with sharpening, then Gaussian blur and set it to 70-80% when drawing. Then I would set the opacity to about the same - it almost to often ended up with soft skin, and the model was happy. But after speaking with a friend of mine who I hold dearly, she almost shot me because according to her they seemed to plastic. And I would have to agree in many cases, but that was never before I had waited some days after finishing editing, and looked back.
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1. has not been touched, other than cropping
[/FONT][FONT="]This is the same as above, though I have made the eyes more visible and used sharpen tool on it (30%)
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[/FONT]This is the one with softning 50-60% probably
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This is the same as above, but also I have used channels to give more contrast.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Now - I somehow think after seeing these all together, that using softening in normal portraits, not were the model is stuck in underwear/bikini and so on, I could probably just use healing brush and fix the skin, and not more than 30-50% on softening in worst case. Also - I think that using the skin contrast in the way I use it, probably should be kept off for those pictures which is intended to look a bit rough, not sweet innocent portraits. I think it gives some edge to the picture, but that a general rule for me should be to lay low on it, or what do you think?[/FONT]
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1. has not been touched, other than cropping

[/FONT][FONT="]This is the same as above, though I have made the eyes more visible and used sharpen tool on it (30%)

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[/FONT]This is the one with softning 50-60% probably

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This is the same as above, but also I have used channels to give more contrast.[/FONT]

[FONT="]Now - I somehow think after seeing these all together, that using softening in normal portraits, not were the model is stuck in underwear/bikini and so on, I could probably just use healing brush and fix the skin, and not more than 30-50% on softening in worst case. Also - I think that using the skin contrast in the way I use it, probably should be kept off for those pictures which is intended to look a bit rough, not sweet innocent portraits. I think it gives some edge to the picture, but that a general rule for me should be to lay low on it, or what do you think?[/FONT]
[FONT="]ps! [/FONT]Disregard the watermark, I usually use mac, and had them sent through there, but had to make them smaller once again, and got double watermark.
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