please xray
Please xray
Easton Hernandez
Thomas Rogers
Bumping so it doesn't disappear while I'm trying
Ethan Hernandez
This good enough?
Adam James
try doing less at once
Jack Butler
yeah, but nobody wants just nips (..right?)
Evan Brown
Unless you mean it's too saturated... I'm using GIMP; but how did you isolate like that?
Caleb Stewart
I've generally moved away from keeping the whole area since:
- the edges/shadows usually burn
- channel mixing the entire region tends to exacerbate jpeg artifacting
- ...which then leads to blurring everything to shit to try to soften the artifacts
- and doing a really clean selection on the whole shirt takes forever (perfectionist)
I literally do each part separately: focus on one side, extract the areola, extract the nipple, reassemble with layer blending, then repeat for the other side. If I'm going for the whole-shirt effect, it's done in "post." It's basically adding a step to specifically xray the lights and shadows since the settings that work best for accentuating the shape of the breasts are almost never the same as those that reveal the nipples.
Asher Cooper
Ah fuck, never thought of doing it that tediously before. (I always put all my money on the blurring to shit approach)
Cheers for the advice
Colton Ramirez
I took a stab at doing the whole shirt for this one just to see how it looked. I still haven't figured out how to balance the hues and saturation to get the full-color effect to feel right. I might look into recoloring techniques for b/w images to get better at that part.
Benjamin Rodriguez
Charles Garcia
that's actually a pretty good effect for the shirt in general, but the nipples look really bad... try keeping them on a separate layer and blending back down
Jaxson Reyes
Not as sharp as Still nice colour work and stuff, any tips? (also try combining it with what he did!)
Aaron Turner
Also, did you do this by using a mask on your monochrome layer and running a soft, low-opacity brush/eraser on it?
Kevin Ward
Probably a dumb question, but I'm very new to this; how exactly do you extract stuff so cleanly? I get that you pull it out into a higher layer, but what merging mode do you use, and how do you get around artefacts when you extract it?
Cheers
Nolan Cox
Camden Anderson
Thanks, man. I've always wondered if it was worth curving each channel separately. Any other tips?
Evan Ortiz
Use the point sample to compare an area of clothing and an area of skin to help tone match. Light to light, dark to dark, then play with the midtones if it doesn't look quite right.
I like to contour the breasts subtly with the dark curve layer.
For the fading, think about where the clothing is close to skin and how oblique the angle is (less straight on is going to be harder to see through).
I don't use cut and paste nipples, but some people seem to like the effect.
Chase Cruz
It's a really tedious process. You have to go through the usual bullshit of curving and mixing and curving again to identify the areola. Prioritize contrasting the areola contour over preserving the light/dark values of the area. Keep in mind that areola can be pale, of mismatching shapes, of varying sizes, and deform according to the way the breast is hanging or settling. Take the polygonal lasso and trace around what you found, then feather your selection by 1 or 2 pixels. Copy that to a new layer. Everything else is layer styles and blending modes. Modes depend a LOT on the situation, but styles that work well are color overly, bevel, outer glow, gradient, drop shadow, and pattern. Again, very situational, and you need to experiment to get a feel for it.
Note that this procedure could easily be used to "fake" an xray, but that takes all the fun out of it.
Carter Johnson
Awesome. I'm going to try it out later. I imitated your result by splitting my "shirt" layer into separate ones for saturation and luminosity and manually sponging but I did a pretty shit job at it. Not even worth posting.
Dylan Williams
Fantastic advice, cheers
Connor Davis
Also, if you're new, do some research to make sure you understand what the different blending mode groups do and difference between opacity and fill. And consider using masks.
Samuel Hall
Played around with the stuff you guys said; I think this is an improvement (would like to fix the colours a little, and get some more defining shadow)