This paper discusses the difference and relation between the method of the bovine image grinding and the software Umeito.

A few years ago wrote an article about Beep, I once said that beep noise can be used to grind the skin, and give the conclusion beep than can be cow and the effect of the picture is better, now it seems that the conclusion is too exaggerated and fixed. Different people's aesthetic difference, the same person at different times of the aesthetic will also have a difference, now it seems, I feel that can be cow image with skin retention effect of the grinding skin more natural, but also more in line with the actual situation.

In the previous days, and casual Baidu, the next PS of the grinding of the tutorial, see a lot of the examples have seen, but also saw some of the article at that time. This includes the process that http://www.missyuan.com/thread-468975-1-1.html is talking about here because it sees its second step as:

2. Use the insert to grind the skin

This step is important, directly affecting the final effect, polishing some, do not worry about textures.

Pinghu teacher may use the neatimage, I use here is the portraiture, the Red box slider is pulled to the maximum.

At that time, I did not have neatimage, and did not install portraiture, so this tutorial will not be dismissed.

When I browsed this tutorial again, finally withstand the heart of my own experiment, although I still do not install neatimage and portraiture, but can be directly with the PS to replace the surface blur, although the effect will be different, but does not affect the core effect of the algorithm. The fact proves once again that the truth is that others speak 1000 times better than they feel at once.

Then one of the most critical effects of this tutorial is to wear the skin while retaining the skin, very similar to the effect of the bull image, and many times the practice has proved that can be cow software 100% is also a similar process.

Let's take a list of the simple steps for that tutorial as follows:

1, copy a layer, we define the change layer name is Highpass

2, with the plug-in highpass layer grinding skin;

3, the application image, the mode selection minus, the scale value is 1, the deviation 128;

4, change the highpass layer blending mode to linear light, the opacity appropriate value.

5, the Highpass layer is Gaussian blur, fuzzy radius of 0.5-2 or so.

Basically it's done, and there seems to be nothing sophisticated.

As for the effect: we test it with a few actual images (the second step is replaced by a surface blur).

Texture map result Diagram (surface blur parameter radius =10, Threshold =16) required for original speckle

Texture map result Diagram (surface blur parameter radius =10, Threshold =50) required for original speckle

For the implementation of the program, we analyze each step in the corresponding analysis, for convenience, we assume that the original image layer is the SRC layer.

(1) Duplicate layer: This is nothing to say, just allocate a memory of the same size, and then memcpy function copy src to highpass layer.

highpass= Copy (SRC);

(2) Highpass: This algorithm can be selected: surface blur, guided filtering, bilateral filtering, anisotropic diffusion, BEEP, local mean variance, Domain transfer, Adaptive manifolds, local Laplacian Filters and so on any epf-filter with the edge effect, here is not much to say.

The expression is: Highpass = Epf-filter (highpass);

(3) Apply Image: Here the interface seems to be very complex, the code is not very complex, in fact, the code is simple scary, is the following calculation formula:

Hihgpass = highpass-src + 128;

It seems that this formula is not very familiar with, yes, this and high contrast retention algorithm is exactly the same, but Photoshop embedded High contrast reserved is Gaussian blur, here is the EPF filter.

(4) From a programming point of view, to the above process of the fourth and fifth steps to change the order, otherwise you will get the wrong result, so here Fourth step is:

Highpass = Guassblur (Highpass, Radius);

Where radius is the radius of the Gaussian blur.

(5) Layer blending: The calculation formula for linear light blending is simple:

Assuming that two adjacent layers X and y,x are above, y is below, and X is mixed with Y, X is a blend, Y is the base, and X and y are the result color Z, and for linear light blending mode, the formula is:

Z = X + 2 * Y-256; (originally thought is-255, after using PS CS6 verification is-256)

The formula for the opacity is simpler, and if opacity represents the opacity of Y, the composition is:

Z = (X * (100-opacity) + Y * Opacity)/100;

So the two combined formulas are:

Z = (x * (100-opacity) + (x + 2 * Y-256) * Opacity)/100;

In general, the algorithm is not particularly complicated, the key to restore the skin texture of the steps is the fourth step of the Gaussian blur, the radius is generally larger, the stronger the texture, but too large, the effect of grinding skin is not, therefore, here need to grasp the appropriate degree, the general radius between 0.5-2 is more appropriate.

This paper discusses the difference and relation between the method of the bovine image grinding and the software Umeito.