Many times, before the wedding, the bride will get some sun and inevitably end up with tan lines. Or if you’re on vacation, you can find that your friends or family members get them as well. Here are a few quick techniques to help get rid of them or even them out a little with the skin around them.
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Always great tips from you. Greatly appreciated.
Thanks Mat. I use the second technic almost exclusively and change me opacity all the time.
Always great tips from you. Greatly appreciated.
If you have some texture in the lighter areas, I often will simply use a brush set to “darken” mode. This will darken the lighter areas but will not over do it. This, along with the healing brush seems take take care of any suntan lines I run across.
This is exactly what I was looking for I had to do this and used a differnt process I had tons of images .
I have since produced the Photo book but no matter .. still handy to have
Thanks for continuing to provide excellent advice! Two thoughts…
1) Some, much, or all of this might be possible in LR. Perhaps you can extend the tutorial to include what are probably largely similar techniques for there as well.
2) Another useful tip is to present before/after examples of tan line correction to clients with upcoming events and discuss their likely cost for those corrections along with a suggestion that they fix the problem during the shoot (either with makeup or prior visits to a tanning booth).
Promote naturist holidays!
Matt,
Amazing what you did with your 3 tips, there is however a 4th trick that I’ve used on occasion. I’ve used the clone stamp took, but I’ve changed the MODE in the upper left toolbar to DARKEN in this case and sometime the opposite, LIGHTEN. Set the opacity to about 40%. Good to know all the tricks, there is never only 1 solution. It depends on the image.
Many thanks for inspiring us.
Great Tips Matt!! For those, including me, who are using Affinity Photo Matt’s tips will work great as well. Keep them coming Matt!!
Great tips, Matt – only risk with wedding photos is that you could end up having to do this to a ton of pics!
Many thanks – again!
Ian
That’s why you wait for them to ask and charge the big bucks! 🙂