Asian/Chinese/Korean Photo Retouching Tutorial

It depends on how much time you want to spend per image, but a relatively quick way to get super smooth skin (within photoshop) is to use an inverted High Pass filter. Copy the background layer and set the blend mode to overlay. Apply a High Pass filter using a pixel width that adds a layer of sharpening relative to the eyes. I find that usually 9px works well, but it changes depending on the scale of the subject in the image. Invert the layer and you will see everything goes a bit blurry. Then apply a solid mask to the layer and grab a white brush and brush over skin to selectively apply this blurring effect. Once you've brushed all visible skin drop the layer opacity to an amount that looks good to you. This is relatively quick and works really well for smoothing skin!

Works even better when you combine it with simple color blending... Use "i" to sample a color and then switch to a super feathered brush and paint the surrounding area. Start with a super low brush opacity around 10%. Use this to blend any red or dark spots on the skin. You'll probably go a bit overboard, but just drop the layer opacity once you're finished.

Good luck

 

use imagenomic portraiture (ps plugin), it's fasts and gives pretty decent results.

 

Firstly the model has to have good skin, then she needs to apply some baby oil evenly on her skin. lighting used looks like a white beauty dish. use frequency separation combined with mixer brush techniques.

plus local dodge and burn.

 

Nope, Skinfiner is better and faster with less plastic-ky looking skin

 

Any plugin used gives one less control due to automated processing.. though skinfiner is a plugin i respect but, for this scenario its application would not produce good results and repeatable results

 

Yeah I am just comparing it to portraiture, in context to the given images above I think a normal retouching workflow will do, RAW files are preferred as some of areas seems overexposed or not properly lit

 

Thanks all for details...