Filter Forge - Retouching (Blemish Be Gone!)

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xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	Thought I'd start this challenge and/or request some advice on how to remove wrinkles, spots, and blemishes. I started with this CC image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...beauty.jpg and used my yet to be released 'Wrinkle and Spot Remover' filter to try and make this circled blemish disappear, and to remove wrinkles, pores and spots. In other words to retouch and remove 'time' from faces. _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 27, 2013 10:43 pm	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	I did see this Perfect Skin filter, but it looks as though it doesn't preserve enough detail. So how to remove the blemish in blue without compromising eyelashes and other details? My best attempt so far is following. There are degrading and missing sharp dark corners of the eyes and mouth, but otherwise a pretty good result no? Any suggestions or better attempts? _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 27, 2013 10:53 pm	Details E-Mail
ThreeDee Lost in Space Posts: 1672 Filters: 112	Here's my quick attempt and suggestions. 1) Isolate just the skintone areas so that the effect is not rendered on the whole image. 2) Blend the blemish-free result at 50-80% opacity over the original, this way you retain some of the skin pores for a more natural result.
	Posted: August 28, 2013 3:14 am	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	Right, that's the way to go for skin, but part of the task I imagined was if there is a situation where tone isolation isn't possible, as in the case where there is a low quality jpg like the second row example. How to de-noise/smooth the entire image while keeping the high contrast/derivative areas? I started this project with True Variable Blur and added some other bits and pieces, hoping to build some 'fix all' for noise, wrinkles, jpeg artifacts, etc. So, part 2 still applies, and... Isolate the low value derivative areas, or low value edge detector values? _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 28, 2013 7:30 am	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	Heres another improved example using http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...49968).jpg and degrading it further by saving it as a 20% jpg. I did fix the dark areas on the eyes and mouth, as in the first example, but not sure what can be done for missing hair here. _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 28, 2013 9:35 pm	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	Well, I missed the obvious wise crack title 'its all about a whitehead', but continuing on... Thank you for the suggestions ThreeDee. I found a nice balance I think using the lighten blend mode. Any other fixes you may see in the attachment to optimize or otherwise improve before submitting, I would be grateful for. I assume this isn't something thats already in the library. I did a quick search for denoise, despeckle, convolve, etc., but didn't really see any like this. So, without further ado, the retitled 'Perfect Picture': http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11662.html _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 29, 2013 1:20 pm	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	Some examples: Of the included FF images, the 'window' image does best to show improvement in cracks, wall texture, glass reflection, and cactus needles using this filter. _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 29, 2013 1:22 pm	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	Two other side by side comparisons: _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 29, 2013 1:23 pm	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	Ah, the infamous whitehead, barely noticeable, again!: _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 29, 2013 1:26 pm	Details E-Mail
angelize angelize Posts: 123 Filters: 17	Hi I designed the Perfect Skin filter to be used on a layer to be blended in to your photo in your photo editing program here is a video of the filter being used with Xara Designer pro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6FGXf1fmc Since I made this video Xara has released a new version of designer Pro that now has a healing brush that makes removing the blemishes even faster. By applying the filter to the photo on the bottom layer and then using a soft eraser brush on the photo on the top layer with a transparency setting I simply brush over the areas I want to smooth and leave the areas where I want more detail left
	Posted: August 30, 2013 5:16 am	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	My apologies, I meant to say that I was unable to make good use of Perfect Skin because of the criteria I failed from the beginning here to mention, namely that I didn't want to have to isolate or manually sel ect areas. Nice detailed and informative video. Good to know there are options aside fr om the PS clone tool. I need to give Xara a try sometime soon. _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 30, 2013 8:18 am	Details E-Mail
xirja Idididoll Forcabbage Posts: 1698 Filters: 8	So far the only improvement I have in mind for Perfect Picture.ffxml is to add a scale factor to make it usable on a variety of sizes of photos, and perhaps a donate button for the manual retoucher's guild? _____________________________________________________ http://web.archive.org/web/2021062908...rjadesign/ _____________________________________________________
	Posted: August 30, 2013 8:37 am	Details E-Mail