Digital face powder - in Overlay Mode!

I shot pictures of my colleagues at work for a farewell book. One image came out with a real drunkards nose - much too red. Not so nice.

I just doubled the layer, inverted it (Color/Invert) and set it to overlay mode. Ghastly. Then I added a layer mask in black, (hiding everything) and painted with a soft brush in white (with low opacity) over the nose. Worked really well. Gradually the skin looked better. This worked too on some blotches on the skin.

Sorry, I can’t show the image here.

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8 Responses to “Digital face powder - in Overlay Mode!”

  1. Perhaps upload it somewhere and just post the link there? Or is that also prohibited?

  2. Rolf says:

    I just can’t put an image of a colleague I work with every day in the net. Especially with a not so nice red nose.

  3. Bernd says:

    You could make a screencast “how to make black bars over eyes” ;)

  4. Ron Hudson says:

    You could take a picture you have of yourself (Perhaps the one you used for the comic podcast) and give yourself a red nose to start with. Then teach us how to fix it?

  5. retro says:

    to get higher effect: paint withe on a transparent layer over the nose,
    than blur this layer strongly…. and set the mode to color….

    I’ll make a video, when I shoot the next Pic witch needs that way of post processing…..

    if someone has one, so I will do it also….

    greets

    retro

  6. retro says:

    wtf ??? sorry I’nt meant: “and set the mode to color….”
    set it to overlay ;)

    greets again

    retro

    P.S. an edit function will be nice :-D

  7. rich says:

    There is a fxfoundry script that does similar - ‘paint-with-light-1-layer’
    part of the excellent set of scripts found at
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimpfx-foundry/

    the description is
    ; One layer version:
    ; Creates a 50% gray layer set to overlay mode.
    ; Painting on the layer in white will lighten
    ; regions below, and painting on the layer in black
    ; will will darken the regions below.

    the individual script can be found at
    http://gimpfx-foundry.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gimpfx-foundry/gimp-2.4/stable/
    with the name ‘lowery-paint-with-light’

  8. Rolf says:

    This is really a good set of scripts. But I have my doubts with these really simple ones.
    Why use a script to make a new layer and set it to overlay mode? The fill with gray isn’t even necessary.

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