5 Replies Latest reply: Sep 23, 2013 9:20 PM by DonPS6 RSS

    Fixing major wrinkles

    DonPS6 Community Member

      Dear All or Anyone

       

      I shot a great portrait of my Great Aunt. The problem is that, at 93 she has some very deep wrinkles.  It is a in your face close up,, I want to tame it and reduce the dark shadow from the wrinkles.

       

      Healing brush tools, blur, content aware all seem to look fake. I can’t find any good places on her face to clone or sample.

       

      I've tried to search Adobe using different wording for wrinkles.

       

      Any help please

      Don

       

      Photoshop CS6

      Lightroom 4

       

      PS: this is my first posting using Adobe Forums.... such a incredible product and skilled people.

        • 1. Re: Fixing major wrinkles
          Curt Y Community Member

          Try "Adobe face makeover".

          • 2. Re: Fixing major wrinkles
            csuebele CommunityMVP

            There are many ways of doing this.  You mentioned blur.  Did you try duplicating the layer, blurring it, setting the blend mode to Lighten, adding a layer mask, then painting in the wrinkle areas?  You can also split the image into high and low frequentcies by makeing two duplicate layers.  Turn off the top layer and blur the bottom layer to eliminate the lines.  Turn on the top layer and select it.  Use Apply Image with Subtract Mode.  Use the blurred layer as the source layer, and set the scale to 2 and the offset to 128.  Then change the layer's blend mode to linear light.  By doing this you have a layer with all the detail and one with the colors and tones.  You can then edite each separately with makes it easier to make corrections.  To reduce the wrinkles using this method: on the detail layer, select a brush set to lighten blend mode with a color of netural gray (128, 128, 128)  With low opacity brush over the wrinkles to lighten them.  You can set the brush to darken to hit the highlights of the wrinkles.  To see what you're doing better, you can add an adjustment layer above the detail layer to increase the contrast, but change the detail layer back to normal while editing.  You can then adjust any dark areas in the blurred layer that shows the wrinkles.

            • 3. Re: Fixing major wrinkles
              DonPS6 Community Member

              Dear CSUEBELE

               

              Please know that I've been away from my computer and I was surprised and thankful for your reply.  I hope to have some play time by this weekend to try your recommendation.

               

              Your recommendation are new to me. I have not read or seen the subject of high/low frequencies. Is there a book I can buy to study this concept or further study this forum, blogs.............. This is my retired hobby and I will stick with your recommentation until I learn what your saying... fun

               

              I did not know if these forums were still active.  It seems that every question has been asked and every answer has been posted.  I'm a late newcomer and did not know if people were following the forums.

               

              Thanks!!!

               

              Don

              • 4. Re: Fixing major wrinkles
                csuebele CommunityMVP

                There is no book that I'm aware of, but there is a website retouchpro.com that would be a good resource.  Here also a web page where I learn about retouching using frequency separation:

                 

                http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=439098

                • 5. Re: Fixing major wrinkles
                  DonPS6 Community Member

                  Csuebele

                  Have viewed and searched the words :major skin wrinkled: again need a little time to process thin information

                   

                  Don PS6,