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Microstock Footage Forum => Video Equipment / Sofware / Technique => Topic started by: rjphoto on August 25, 2008, 11:13
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Hello all,
I am doing more and more portrait shots and was wondering what everyone else uses to clean up the photos besides Photoshop. I've been looking at Portrait Professional and hear it is a good product.
Any ideas???
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Why would you need special software for portrait photos, besides PhotoShop? :-\
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I use lots of different programs for photo manipulation but for airbrushing faces I've not seen anything that can rival Photoshop.
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Supposedly it clears up any blemishes and cleans up all the rough edges, so to speak
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Nik Color Effex pro 3.0 is a pretty cool software. It is available as a plugin for Photoshop. Apart from usage for portraits you can use it for many different things. The following image was a very boring normal image of wheat.
After Nik effex it looks like this: http://stockxpert.com/browse.phtml?f=view&id=17383431
And that was even accepted by iStock.
You can get a 15 day trial version.
The drawback is the price, 300 Euro in Germany.
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Definitely, "Kodak digital gem" plugin for photoshop, "imagenomic noiseware" plugin for photoshop, and photoshop healing brush, and everyone turns into professional model ;)
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Nik Color Effex pro 3.0 is a pretty cool software. It is available as a plugin for Photoshop. Apart from usage for portraits you can use it for many different things. The following image was a very boring normal image of wheat.
After Nik effex it looks like this: [url]http://stockxpert.com/browse.phtml?f=view&id=17383431[/url]
And that was even accepted by iStock.
You can get a 15 day trial version.
The drawback is the price, 300 Euro in Germany.
wow, 300 euro is a rip off for the effects that you can make in photoshop already :(
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good make-up, patch tool, clone tool duplicate layer, surface blur so all the small details disappear, opacity at 30% and mask
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Of course, you can do almost everything in photoshop, but not always everything fast and easy. Try it out, its amazing. (Trial version is free)
Yes the price is a bit high . But it can be worth it depending on what you need it for.
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I say again, kodak digital gem. Here are the results...and I use it. Thank God I found it:
http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/artikelen/22/Digital-Gem.jpg
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/Dl4All/dl4all/Kodak-DIGITAL-GEM-Airbrush-Pro.jpg
http://images.digitalcamerainfo.com/images/upload/Image/NEWS%20IMAGES/Kodak-GEM-air-scn.jpg
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I have to agree with whitechild on this one. I think Kodak digital gem is the one piece I've been missing and for the price of $99 I think it is well worth it.
Thanks for your help!!!!!
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I have to agree with whitechild on this one. I think Kodak digital gem is the one piece I've been missing and for the price of $99 I think it is well worth it.
Thanks for your help!!!!!
You can do so much with photoshop, I strongly advise you first to learn to use it well before paying crazy money. I got once to postproccess over 100 selected high fashion shots with just photoshop on magazine quality level in 8 hrs for an advertizing photography studio. It's like Microsoft Word, people tend to use just 10% of the software.
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I have to agree with vikavalter. It would be good for you to learn how to use photoshop, because you can do so much with it. Basically I like to use plugins, but I don't like to depend on them