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I was wondering what people do when it comes to skin retouching in portraits with both men and women? I usually retouch and soften women's skin, but really don't know what to do about men. I would love to hear what people do.
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or if they have been out in the sun too much and got sunburnt, I will remove some of the redness judiciously, not aggressively since it would look too fake.
For boys and young men it's tough. I usually do nothing or very little, like others, zapping out temporary blemishes (cuts and acne) or softening some permanent ones. I rarely use Portraiture for men -- a bit more often for boys -- and when I do it's at a very low level. I don't use at all on men middle age or older as it gives them, I think, an unnatural look. Some photographers give teen boys the same magazine-cover look they give the girls. So there's no hard and fast rule. I don't think this looks right and no boy has asked me for it. Face it, men are as vain as women and also want to look great. But what looks great on a man isn't the same.
I once did a business headshot for a 30-something women. I zapped out a lot of moles on her face that I thought were not attractive. I should have asked her as she was pretty angry and insulted. So I will just often ask if I have any question.
I think a good rule of thumb is to err on the side of caution for all, don't overdo it.
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
did you copy the Serial number when downloading, it's there, copy and use that from the link Sovaphotos kindly posted.
image shows Win PC obviously, it's different from a Mac, so if Mac use the number beside the Mac download
Been a learning curve for you today hoyaterp.
Just as a side note and to anyone else reading re plug-ins, you could copy plug-ins from early versions of CS up the chain, but once you got to CC, it does not work at all, different kettle of fish, and you have to re-install them and in a lot of cases get copies to suit CC unfortunately.
http://neilvn.com/tangents/studio-portraits-with-85mm-f1-4-lens/
And nope, no Gaussian Blur. It's just the f/1.4 goodness.
(I did do some very light skin retouching, and run my usual combination of plug-ins to smooth the skin a little bit.)