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Hi! and color range question


Acidstuff

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Hi I'm Acidstuff (Holland, Europe) and made some some photos of a model during a workshop last weekend and did some basic retouching. There is one little annoyance, there are small drops of paint on the models skin mainly on the fingers that I tried to remove, but didn't succeed in.

The Healing Brush did not work out well and my next option was to sample the skin with the color picker and use a soft brush at a low opacity, but unfortunately the spots were still visible. A higher opacity obfuscated the texture of the skin. My next hope was the Color Range option, but although I fiddled around with the setting and the blue channel I had no luck in getting the paint spots selected.

My hope is on this forum. Maybe someone can explain me what the best approach is for a situation like this.

Curly-Sue.jpg
 

RTContent

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How's this?

Curly-Sue.jpg

What I did was use the Color range tool like you were doing, but then I applied a layer mask using this selection to the channel mixer tool. Then I swapped out the green and blue channel: Green channel - green +20, blue +80. Blue channel - green +80, blue +20.
 

hawkeye

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Painted with a low opacity, low flow soft brush on a separate layer. Sample often and bulid up the color slowly, when you have the color right add a bit of noise to match. On another layer I added a finger nail transfomed it to fit. Added the shadow back in on another layer.
 

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Acidstuff

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That looks great! It's amazing that you managed to do that on such a small and pixelated image.
 

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