Glossy wet look lips

How to use PS to make the lips glossy wet look ???

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Jusko

tehre are some things which either cannot realistically be done effectively in photoshop, or are simply better off (more quickly and easily) achieved before taking the shot .

i believe this problem falls into this category... you need to get the person you are photographing to moisten their lips with vaseline or some sort of glossy lip balm/ lipstick prior to the photograph.

other cases where you can try, but really can't re-create the effect in PS after the shot is taken, include using a polariser, a graduated ND filter, and an IR filter. You can approximate each of these to a degree (and sometimes with a lot of time and effort) but they will never look as good as "the real thing".

just because we have digital cameras doesnt mean we should get lazy when taking the shot and assume we can add/subtract/change everything we want/need later on in photoshop!

Jusko said:

How to use PS to make the lips glossy wet look ???

Best Regards
Jusko

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Warren Prasek said:

tehre are some things which either cannot realistically be done
effectively in photoshop, or are simply better off (more quickly
and easily) achieved before taking the shot .

i believe this problem falls into this category... you need to get
the person you are photographing to moisten their lips with
vaseline or some sort of glossy lip balm/ lipstick prior to the
photograph.

other cases where you can try, but really can't re-create the
effect in PS after the shot is taken, include using a polariser, a
graduated ND filter, and an IR filter. You can approximate each of

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Why is an ND filter so hard to re-create. Can't this easily be done with the gradient tool and some shade of grade using an overlay fill or something. I'm pretty new to photoshop so am just trying to learn.

Rob

Glossy lips reflect the light from the light source. You could try adding some very white highlights on the lips.

hb

I just thought that PS is so powerful that it can imitate every thing like the real one.
Thanks.

You mean you were looking for the Lipgloss filter? Photoshop is powerful, but doesn't have many automatic features like that.

I can think of a couple of ways to go about your request, but would have to try things out first and it would probably be more complex than you want.

Jusko said:

I just thought that PS is so powerful that it can imitate every
thing like the real one.
Thanks.

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I don't want a filter to do that. Just want to know the steps to make the lips glossy or shiny look or wet look.
Thanks.

Jusko

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Jusko

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See my post above, I tried it, it works.

hb

Thank you very much hb, I know you are really helping me, but I don't know how to add "white highlight" to the lips. Could u tell me the steps please ??

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Jusko

Visit http://epaperpress.com/fireworks/index.html , click on 3-D effects, 3-D ball, and run the tutorial. While it's done in Fireworks, you can do something similar in Photoshop to achieve highlights.

Jusko said:

Thank you very much hb, I know you are really helping me, but I
don't know how to add "white highlight" to the lips. Could u tell
me the steps please ??

Best Regards
Jusko

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Jusko said:

Thank you very much hb, I know you are really helping me, but I
don't know how to add "white highlight" to the lips. Could u tell
me the steps please ??

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1. Open your image.

2. Zoom in on the lips until you can see each pixel.

3. Click on the two headed arrow next to the black and white square on the bottom of the tools box. Make sure the white box is on top.

4. Select paintbrush from the tool bar.

5. Use a brush size of 1.

6. Paint areas on the lips one pixel at a time with white. Zoom in and out to see the effect you are getting, you should start to see what looks like reflected light, or glossy lips.

Try it, let me know.

hb

Thank you very much, hb.
I had tried your method and achieved quite good result after several practice.
Meanwhile I am going to look at the website that Thomas recommended.
Thank you, Thomas.

Best Regards
Jusko

Here's another approach which I've used a few times.

1) Use the magnetic lassoo tool to select the lips (read up in PS Help if you aren't sure how to use it)
2) Go to Image> adjust> replace colour.

3) Use the eye dropper to select a highlight area of the lips and increase the lightness of the selection. Try different amounts of lightness and also have a fiddle with the fuzziness value.

4) Click the eyedropper on a darker area of the lips and increase the saturation and decrease the lightness.

5) Optional final step - go to filters> distort> spherize and apply a little (+10% to +30%) spherizing to make the lips look fuller.

There are lots of values you can change in that procedure so keep at it till you get what you want - Have fun.

Jusko said:

Thank you very much, hb.
I had tried your method and achieved quite good result after
several practice.
Meanwhile I am going to look at the website that Thomas recommended.
Thank you, Thomas.

Best Regards
Jusko

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RobertSojka said:

Why is an ND filter so hard to re-create. Can't this easily be done
with the gradient tool and some shade of grade using an overlay
fill or something. I'm pretty new to photoshop so am just trying to
learn.

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Actually the effect of the ND filter is easy to create in Photoshop, no one is arguing that point. What he was saying is you can't duplicate the filter in Photoshop. Now that sounds like the same thing, but what a gradual ND filter does is allow you to capture detail that would otherwise be in the blown out region of a digital shot. In other words, the detail you want to capture is not in the digital negative, so no matter how much PS postprocessing you do, you can't duplicate the actual filter. The effect is easy to duplicate with the gradient tool. You can also do it by shooting two digital negatives and combining them in Photoshop.

Can't resist posting here because i've been looking for better alternatives to a certain technique i've been experimenting on. I've been experimenting on honey or clear syrup over lipstick with a beauty dish to highlight it in detail and to give it that oomph factor. If you are only focusing on the lips alone, macro lenses work wonders on detail. So far I've been satisfied with the results...but that's just me.