Digital Lipstick

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Captain Blammo
Oct 7, 2005
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I took a picture of a pair of lips, only to later realise that the lipstick wasn’t evenly applied. I eventually just cloned some sticked-lip onto the areas that were lacking, but it seemed like an inelegant solution.

How would anyone here have tackled that one? I tried all sorts of funky blendmodes, but I couldn’t seem to find any way of painting the colour and brightness of the lipsticked areas onto the non-lipsticked areas whilst preserving their texture and highlights (and not affecting the adjacent areas that did have lipstick on them).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

CB

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Mike Russell
Oct 7, 2005
"Captain Blammo" wrote in message
I took a picture of a pair of lips, only to later realise that the lipstick wasn’t evenly applied. I eventually just cloned some sticked-lip onto the areas that were lacking, but it seemed like an inelegant solution.
How would anyone here have tackled that one? I tried all sorts of funky blendmodes, but I couldn’t seem to find any way of painting the colour and brightness of the lipsticked areas onto the non-lipsticked areas whilst preserving their texture and highlights (and not affecting the adjacent areas that did have lipstick on them).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Sampling the lipstick color and using a brush set to color mode. Careful brushing at 20 percent opacity or so should do the job. If not, converting a copy of the image to Lab, and using a bumped version of the a channel as a mask is a quick way to get a natural looking mask.


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KatWoman
Oct 7, 2005
"Captain Blammo" wrote in message
I took a picture of a pair of lips, only to later realise that the lipstick wasn’t evenly applied. I eventually just cloned some sticked-lip onto the areas that were lacking, but it seemed like an inelegant solution.
How would anyone here have tackled that one? I tried all sorts of funky blendmodes, but I couldn’t seem to find any way of painting the colour and brightness of the lipsticked areas onto the non-lipsticked areas whilst preserving their texture and highlights (and not affecting the adjacent areas that did have lipstick on them).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

CB
I often use the healing tool on the lip edges to fix any gaps or over draw make sure to set it to a soft circle first

I also use the clone tool but not at 100%
make sure to re-set the sample points frequently on both tools, where you clone/heal from is very important
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KatWoman
Oct 7, 2005
"Captain Blammo" wrote in message
I took a picture of a pair of lips, only to later realise that the lipstick wasn’t evenly applied. I eventually just cloned some sticked-lip onto the areas that were lacking, but it seemed like an inelegant solution.
How would anyone here have tackled that one? I tried all sorts of funky blendmodes, but I couldn’t seem to find any way of painting the colour and brightness of the lipsticked areas onto the non-lipsticked areas whilst preserving their texture and highlights (and not affecting the adjacent areas that did have lipstick on them).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

CB
Or get a better makeup artist

http://tinyurl.com/a5dd5 (unretouched lipstick)

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