-->NSL Superior Skin Enhancing<--

Nox
by Nox · 11 posts
13 years ago in Photoshop
Posted 13 years ago · Author
Neutral Soft Light [NSL] is a superior enhancing technique than using the dodge and burn tools for one simple reason; your skin does not come out orange toned and a color fix is not needed. Color fixing simply desaturates your skin creating this gray filmy look. The NSL technique is one that I use when I retouch professional photography photos (portraits). It can clear the skin down to the tiniest pore.

Enough chatting. Business time.

NOTE: This is a simple tutorial. It requires you to have some knowledge of photoshop and skill of your own.

1. Open your skin file of choice. I have Mayu's pulled up just as an example.
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2. Create a new layer above everything else.
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3.Go to Edit > Fill....
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4. Use these settings. You are filling with 50% gray.
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5. Change your blending mode to "Soft Light" (duh.)
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6. Choose a soft brush and set these settings. You can alter these to your preference. 10-20% on both opacity and flow is good.
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7. Set your background and foreground colors to #000000 and #FFFFFF so that you can flip back and forth between the two. Black is to darken an area and white is to lighten an area. If you make a mistake you can set your layer mode to Normal, eyedrop the grey and "erase" your mistakes with your brush by simply painting over them.
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That's all!
Posted 12 years ago
Genius.
Posted 12 years ago · Author
OnHerArms wrote:
Genius.


Thank you!
Posted 11 years ago · Author
4D0e5a8d5Lo4c8k5Inc2 wrote:
Amazing tutoiral ^^


Thank you so much. Let me know how it works out for you?

-- Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:41 am --

I would just like to take a moment and pat myself on the back as I have come back and noticed a METRIC SHIT TON of devs on IMVU using this method instead of straight black and white on multiply/overlay layers or dodge and burn. :tlaponder:
Posted 11 years ago · Author
Ð▪ℳ wrote:
Thanks for the tutorial! Hopefully the newsletter I sent out helps people see this.

Np. It's been up here for awhile. I just laughed so hard when I started to see skin enhancement files being sold in shades of grey with directions to put the layer on Soft Light mode. It means even though a lot of the dev community turns their nose up at this site, they have NO problem coming here and using techniques they find. I did not post this anywhere else but here.
Posted 11 years ago
Иø✖ wrote:
Ð▪ℳ wrote:
Thanks for the tutorial! Hopefully the newsletter I sent out helps people see this.

Np. It's been up here for awhile. I just laughed so hard when I started to see skin enhancement files being sold in shades of grey with directions to put the layer on Soft Light mode. It means even though a lot of the dev community turns their nose up at this site, they have NO problem coming here and using techniques they find. I did not post this anywhere else but here.


Lol, well most of them can't look past some of the content here. They don't realize that we do offer a lot to help everyone get credits, learn how to dev, protect their accounts and lots of other things.
Posted 8 years ago
Magic! Thanks a lot!

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