How to treat portrait photos with a "granular/gloss/metal" texture?

I believe the Lord wants to take pictures from this

Become like this

Pictures from the network, because it is relatively small and no raw format so can only be magnified to this.

Black skin looks more textured than because of the rough, but because of color, in fact, if you carefully observe, black skin to some extent than the white race to a little more delicate, of course, no yellow people delicate.

The surface texture we are talking about is generally expressed by two characteristics, one is color, but the other is smooth degree.

Generally speaking, the color darker surface gives the feeling more easy to produce the texture, the light in the object smoother area forms the high light, is also the PS Common Glossary, the high light is produces the so-called texture the key factor. On the surface of the same roughness, the darker texture is stronger because it is more visible than the light, and the light color is similar to that of the highlight, so there is no strong contrast.

This is the cover of Steve Jobs ' 2011 Times Magazine. Also very textured, but obviously less than the main pictures.

I'm going to explain how I did it on an Obama chart, and affirm that I am not a professional photographer, if there is any unreasonable place, please guide.

Tutorial Start

The following nonsense more, please read as appropriate.

Software Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (or open Photoshop Cameraraw, actually this and Lightroom is the same thing, all operations are the same, but Lightroom more intuitive and convenient. )

When we get this picture, look at the place where the white balance can be identified, to eliminate the effects of light, we found that Obama's coat and shirt is just black and white, you can easily correct the white balance in your style, if your image can not find a white-balanced area, it can only be used by eyes, at this time, You can play your artistic talent.

Using the white balance selector to select the area you think is black or white, you can choose a few more comparisons, and I chose this area.

First look at the color, in order to improve the texture, the high light down, black color gradient to the highest, white color gradient to 50, shadow adjustment to-53, clarity, pull up to 85, saturation reduction, for the overall color atmosphere, we also want to adjust the brightness to 50. The reference values are as follows.

Note that this step requires some comparative basics of photographic knowledge, you need to know what these numbers mean, I am more experienced, the operation of the mind already have the effect you want to achieve, by the accumulation of experience, the secret is to see more pictures of foreign photographers, if possible, their original film and pieces to take over the comparative study.

If you're about the same as me, you might find that the picture becomes like this

It's a little bit of a point, but it's not enough, so let's adjust the curve.

Curve I prefer to put some of the highlights and bright tones, dark light part of the light, the middle of the adjustment, so out of the picture more balanced, the equivalent of increased latitude, you can see more details.

It has been're far off here, but we also need to grasp the overall tone, the light source of this picture is very good to distinguish, probably is a lecture photography, the scene has many hard light, basically is the white light, simply said, the tonal separation part, adjusts the highlight hue to 105 or so, this is the yellow green, Saturation is pulled to 13 or else you can accept the value. Shadow parts do not handle.

Finally sharpen, depending on what you need to output the resolution of the image to sharpen, if you need a different size, it is recommended to use a different sharpening value.

There is also a more advanced technique for making the feeling of red light in the main map, if there is a similar problem, I am answering.

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