A Perfect Lie in Photoshop
Hi my name is Cameron Rad. I am 17 years old and am an aspiring graphic designer from Los Angeles, California. I have been using photoshop for almost 2 years now and thought i should take it upon myself to try something new. I have always been fascinated by how models and actresses appear to have that glowing, flawless look. So over a period of 3 months I worked night and day to take this photo:
And turn it into something amazing. I went through about 40 different makeover techniques, until i found what i thought was the best balance for this photo. By combining 2 very common techniques, i think i have found a good "flawless" skin method.
So without further adieu:
Final Image:
Video:
About author
Name: Cameron Rad
Age: 17
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Occupation: Freelance photographer/graphic designer.
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please please please
make a tutorial for this..
Wow, amazing job Cameron!
WOW
that's just fantastic!
AMAZING!
Cameron...amazing work. I can't wait to see what's next!
Muito bom o vídeo!!! Serve como inspiração!!!!
:D
U made it like a pro.
Can you give us specific, step-by-step tutorial?
could you write some tutorial about retouching?
That some beautiful work. Congrats.
Wow. This makes me feel beautiful! I always thought Ms. Lima was gorgeous, albeit spoiled and a brat. But now I realized that I am just as gorgeous as she is. And my husband needn't spend hours touching me up in photos. I will, however, ask him to shave off about 20 lbs in our next portrait! Just kidding. I like being chunky.
Excellent work!... You should post the tutorial for us to learn!!!!
Armando
Caracas, Venezuela
Hi everybody. I don't know why I cannot see the video? :'(
I wish i could see it .
A perfect lie (gabriel & dresden remix) - The engine room
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First off, really nice job with the retouch! Secondly, does anyone know the name of the song he used?
It's plastic, but in the good way, I've seen a lot of retouchs and.... no volume and this is very good, some brights and shadows... I like it :)
Hey...
Sometimes they will making the pupils larger to create a more inviting feel to the image... ;-)
@ sillla
You can use the clone stamp instead of spot heal brush, use gaussian blur, and unsharp mask instead of high pass. Try it out and let me know how it goes. I am not sure it's going to work, but it's worth a try.
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Concerning the Dove commercial question:
I know for a fact that they used photoshop. That "program" you saw was just a flash animation. I am not sure of the exact method they used. But my guess would be cut out the head from the neck and put on new layer, then stretch and distort the neck using the transform tools, liquify, or clone stamp. Once again i am not sure exactly what they used.
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i am sure you have seen the Dove advert, as your image is inline with some of the techniques they use i was wondering if you know how they stretched the neck?
Lol, I just reread my earlier comment and saw what I wrote: "too slow and fast"! I meant too small and fast :P
Thanks for telling us what you used - I was hoping I would be able to do the same thing in Pixelmator, but it doesn't have those tools. Oh well, I'm sure I can find another way ;)
To get rid of blemishes i used the spot healing brush and clone stamp. To get rid of the shine i used the patch tool and spot healing brush. And for the skin i used Gaussian blur and high pass(to keep the skin texture)
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Great! a new talent is born!!! you dont have to show exaclty how you did everything... but it would be cool to see a trail of the tutorials you have followed and any book titles you have used to learn all of this... a sneak peak at your bookmarks would be nice! ;)
Wow, 3 months! Good work! I like the removal of the light glare on her skin and what you did with her eyes and makeup. Unfortunately the video was too slow and fast to really see what you did - are you going to post the tutorial later? If not, can you post the links to the 2 techniques you said you combined to do this?
Cameron, really like that "plastic look" - could be straight from Nip/Tuck! lol
Though it might be a bit overdone it's an awesome outcome... don't take those negative feedbacks too serious. Most are just jealous of either your mac or your ps skills. Keep up the fantastic work!
That is very good photox... Does anyone have a good tutorial on this?
Thanks. I appreciate the negative comments as well as the positive ones. Without negativity you will never learn.
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Ignore all of the Negative comments. If everyone can be honest with them selves we can all agree that we were not producing amazing makeover videos when we were 17. Or using 40 techniques in photoshop
Great Vid and Wonderful transformation!
Kudos to you and keep up the good work
@k3v I agree i like Adriana Lima the way she is. It was just an experiment.
@Mr Kuzio Thanks. I am learning more everyday. This is my first post on Abduzeedo. Fabio is helping me a lot.
@Danny Dawson I actually worked and saved up for almost 2 years to pay for it.
@Every negative comment lol. I know the skin is a bit over done. This was my first try at this. I learned from my mistake. I am currently learning how to resize lip,eyes,nose, etc. And i agree she looked better before. I personally like the natural side. However, i have always been fascinated on how they look so "perfect".
Thank you,
CR
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Nice work.. but adriana doesn't need Photoshop imo ;)
A slower video with some detail as to the techniques used would have been nice.
well it's quite ok..
Thats quite a big screen and a tidy new mac for a 17 year old.
Posh kids don't know they're born!
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=5iwaQ2zi63c
i did this a year ago! it was fun!
impresive
Don't see any new techniques. What is special about it?
I can't watch the video? There is no link, no frame nothing? How can i watch it?
Now that is COOL. Good job. :)
Nice job!
But you have to learn much more before came back!
(everyone have to learn some stuff ;) )
I do not think is in any way perfect or flawless. You overdid the skin by far, turning her into plastic, and forgot about other vital aspects of retouching, such as resizing and moving eyes, lips, nose, etc.
It's a shame, the original photo is really beautiful. Try to appreciate it.
Nice job. Ty for the vid.
Excellent...
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