Photoshop neutral ash for the strong light of the character protection details grinding tutorial

To users of Photoshop software, the use of neutral ash to the strong light under the details of the grinding tutorial.

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First of all, the picture is two-dimensional, is a plane, then what makes people look like three-dimensional? and sketch is exactly the same, rely on the relationship between light and dark, that is, white, gray, black clever combination, usually the brighter part of the light is the highlight of the feeling is protruding from the screen, the closer The Observer. The darker part of the shadow is the impression that it is recessed, which is far more distant from the observer than the light portion.

To give you one of the simplest examples, a face portrait, we can see that the nose is the most prominent, in other words is the nose than other parts of the face closer to the observer, this is because the nose is a high light area, both sides of the nasal alar is shaded area, the contrast between the three-dimensional. Therefore, the light and shade relationship plays a vital role in the stereoscopic and level sense of the picture.

Neutral Gray Grinding is the use of the principle of the skin to deepen the reduction of light. For example, how can wrinkles be seen? Because the skin folds hinder the light into the formation of shadows, you just fade the shadow area, wrinkles disappear, because there is no light and shade contrast, the use of neutral ash method for acne, freckle and so on are a truth

1, the picture into PS, press ctrl+shift+n new layer, layer mode to soft light, in the bottom of the column "filled with soft light neutral color" tick, click "OK" to establish the layer.

2, the establishment of black and white adjustment layer, the purpose is to exclude other color interference, so that the picture only black, white, gray three shades, easy to deepen the dodge. Click on this icon in the bottom right corner of the PS interface and choose "Black and white".

3, the establishment of the curve, the purpose is to highlight the skin defects, some dark spots in the dark after the more easily found. Click on this icon in the bottom right corner of the PS interface and select "Curve".

Pull the curve to the right and darken the curve.

4, back to the neutral gray layer, the foreground color is set to black, on the left toolbar to select the brush, wrinkles, scars, bags and other exposure uneven area smear, if it is a high demand for commercial films, the image should be magnified to the pores of the smear, smear the time to adjust the brush according to the situation at any time size, opacity and flow.

This method can also eliminate the weight of the face, you can see that there is fat because the local skin bulge caused by uneven light, so as long as the shadow area with a white brush to reduce the light on it.

5, after the completion of the deepening of the Dodge, select the black and white adjustment layer, right-click, delete the black and white adjustment layer, and the curve to the normal value (can be adjusted according to the actual situation), so that the grinding skin is completed.

6, but neutral gray grinding skin has a very common problem, in the darker shaded area after the light, this area will be gray.

7, why hair ash? Because of the time, in fact, is to increase the brightness, lightness increased too much, saturation will drop, so hair ash.

How to solve this problem? Let's talk about it.

1. Establish the observation layer, or the first step with the neutral gray grinding skin, pattern soft light, fill 50 degrees of gray.

2. Use the optional Color tool, in the optional color in addition to black, white, gray color black to the left to pull the head, and then black, white, gray three colors in black to the right to pull the head, and at the bottom of the check "absolute".

Then the image becomes like this.

The darker it is, the lower the saturation, some ask why. Here's an explanation: just set up an optional color adjustment layer, which is actually an observation layer, we reduce the black, white, gray color (red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta) in the optional color, which increases the lightness of these colours, while the less saturated areas are red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, So the degree of reduction is less than the normal area of natural and saturation, so the darker the lower the saturation. Then add black, white, gray in the black value, which increases the contrast between color and hue, so that we can more intuitively see where the less saturated (equivalent to neutral gray grinding of the dark curve of the process)

8, in the observation layer just now, the establishment of a Hue saturation layer (click on the Hue Saturation tool), reduce the saturation by about 50%, and then create a new layer (shift+ctrl+n), in the new layer to create a hue saturation layer, the saturation increase of 50% or so, The two hue saturation layers are then reverse-masked (press ctrl+i).

Another would ask, why build two hue saturation adjustment layer, and one to reduce saturation of one increase saturation?

Take note of the details in step 3, we created a new layer in the middle, the first layer to reduce the saturation is created in the optional color observation layer, and the second layer to increase the saturation is created in the new adjustment layer, we will only be in the adjustment layer after the operation.

9. Use the Brush tool on the left side of the toolbar to change the background to white (press X) and smear it in the black area until the gray level is even.

10. After the smear is finished, the observation layer (optional color 1, Hue saturation 2) is closed or deleted.

Final effect:

Well, the above information is small compiled to you photoshop this software users of the detailed use of neutral ash to the strong light under the details of the grinding tutorial to share all the content, in general, the preliminary operation of neutral gray grinding is basically similar, but the finishing treatment is slightly different later. Small series of late Ash method is very good, also used to the observation layer, with the optional color, hue/saturation adjustment layer to the gray area to strengthen, and then in the neutral gray layer repair can, hope that small series of tutorials to help everyone.