how do you achieve that swelling effect? I feel like if I tried to do that the skin would look so blurry and it wouldn't match the original photo resolution at all. And what effects do you use to achieve it? It's mesmerizing!
The swelling effect is a combination of the Reshape Effect and Liquify. Keeping the detail is tricky because, as you said, it's easy to make it look blurry on accident. Reshape does a pretty good job of enlarging without destroying the details and Liquify used in extreme moderation (mainly to just make it bulge a bit, not enlarge) will do a good job keeping the skin texture. Also, it helps to use a really high resolution picture. One last thing about this particular image was that the area of the breast that's lit up by the sun is re-added in via photoshop so I could control how it revealed itself. This helps sell the effect a lot since the skin texture that's really bright doesn't just expand, it reveals more texture, helping the detail out.
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Didn't expect her to go as big as she did, nice! I could imagine this was a tough one though.
ReplyDeleteThe light was tricky - but it's why I picked this image so it wasn't too bad.
Deletehow do you achieve that swelling effect? I feel like if I tried to do that the skin would look so blurry and it wouldn't match the original photo resolution at all. And what effects do you use to achieve it? It's mesmerizing!
ReplyDeleteThe swelling effect is a combination of the Reshape Effect and Liquify. Keeping the detail is tricky because, as you said, it's easy to make it look blurry on accident. Reshape does a pretty good job of enlarging without destroying the details and Liquify used in extreme moderation (mainly to just make it bulge a bit, not enlarge) will do a good job keeping the skin texture. Also, it helps to use a really high resolution picture.
DeleteOne last thing about this particular image was that the area of the breast that's lit up by the sun is re-added in via photoshop so I could control how it revealed itself. This helps sell the effect a lot since the skin texture that's really bright doesn't just expand, it reveals more texture, helping the detail out.
Love your work, this is one of my most favorite ones.
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