Isn’t it always surprising to see pictures of models with clean, radiant and glowing skin? Certainly the beauty products used by them cannot be given the entire credit for their unnerving skin. Because a major credit also goes to the editors who actually work hard on their portraits and make them look godly. ‘Skin smoothness’ is the term which is in these days. This is the technique that removes the blemishes on the skin of the model, gives even tone to the body color and softens the overall skin to make it look just so apt.
In editing software like Photoshop, one can use some of the standard procedures to achieve desired skin smoothness. However, the basic intention in not to make it look artificial but realistic. Excessive smoothing is also not preferable because then the portrait loses its charm. Hence it is best to leave eyes, eyebrows and lips to be unaffected by the smoothing effect and be natural. An expert knows where to stop smoothing and add that essential noise component to preserve the natural look.
They say ‘Beauty is in the eyes of the observer’. Efficient skin smoothness is achieved when one changes the perception of the observer and makes the portrait beautiful. But as the procedure is time consuming and needs intricate detail handling, photographers don’t like to spend their time on doing this job themselves. They prefer to outsource it to the right agency that has expert manpower that can do the same job in comparatively less time and more precision.
In today’s world where everyone wants to be at their best and every other company competing to sell their products, techniques of skin smoothness is the need of the hour. And it could be further enhanced with proper balance of the colors to maintain the equilibrium.
In editing software like Photoshop, one can use some of the standard procedures to achieve desired skin smoothness. However, the basic intention in not to make it look artificial but realistic. Excessive smoothing is also not preferable because then the portrait loses its charm. Hence it is best to leave eyes, eyebrows and lips to be unaffected by the smoothing effect and be natural. An expert knows where to stop smoothing and add that essential noise component to preserve the natural look.
They say ‘Beauty is in the eyes of the observer’. Efficient skin smoothness is achieved when one changes the perception of the observer and makes the portrait beautiful. But as the procedure is time consuming and needs intricate detail handling, photographers don’t like to spend their time on doing this job themselves. They prefer to outsource it to the right agency that has expert manpower that can do the same job in comparatively less time and more precision.
In today’s world where everyone wants to be at their best and every other company competing to sell their products, techniques of skin smoothness is the need of the hour. And it could be further enhanced with proper balance of the colors to maintain the equilibrium.