Comments on: An Exercise in Photoshop Forensics

By: Kevin Simms

Kevin Simms — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:02:33 +0000

I would guess use the paint brush tool to paint in the pattern. That’s the only way it could have been done.

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By: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:35:38 +0000

My guess is that you are really good with Photoshop? As well as washing out the images with your flash? Total guess though!

By: Jake Garn

Jake Garn — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:42:38 +0000

Ofir Abe is getting really close! Not quite exactly right, but very close! I will be posting the full answer within the next few days I hope!

By: Ofir Abe

Ofir Abe — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:57:34 +0000

i’ll just fill in the missing besides saturation plays of the skin –
what i think is that on the basic level you made use of two exposure levels in lightroom. or in other words one version with levels to the darken the skin and one with highlights, one on top of the other and with the pan tool selected off the patterns you created revealing the darker version of the shot.
besides that the bg is also a gradient that you filled after make a path selection of the model’s body until about the hair line.

peace

By: Jake Garn

Jake Garn — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:46:54 +0000

@Robert Purvins – that is a technique I’ve been perfecting for awhile, it’s a combination of the lighting, model selection and a handful of post-processing techniques in Lightroom.

By: zu audette

zu audette — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:13:49 +0000

For the painting, I would guess a solid color adjustment layer, set to overlay or soft/hard light, invert the mask and then paint into the mask with white for the pattern with various brush tools

By: Russ Robinson

Russ Robinson — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:05:31 +0000

As far as getting the design on the skin, I would guess that you used either a vector or a special brush to paint on the design (on a new layer), then use a displacement map to conform it to the contours of the models’ skin.

By: Robert Purvins

Robert Purvins — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:34:23 +0000

I’ll stay out of the guessing game as far as the body paint goes. I do however have a question I was hoping you would answer.

How do you achieve this desaturated to the point of white skin tone without getting it grey?

Regards