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              March 2, 2013
              Chris Lambeth

              How To Use Portraiture 2 In A Non-Texture Killing Way

              I have had quite a few people ask about my skin smoothing ways. Its really, really simple. I use Imaginomics Portraiture 2 and have figured out how to get it so it smooths the tones instead of all the texture. So if you use Portraiture, follow along and stop killing your textures!

              For a quick look at the settings, they go in this order:


              Screen Shot 2013 03 02 at 8.51.36 PM1 How To Use Portraiture 2 In A Non Texture Killing Way

              Also, make sure you check layer mask, and make sure it creates a new layer for each smoothing process!

              Thanks and feel free to check out more on my facebook page or website!

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              • http://tambnguyen.com/ Tam Nguyen Photography

                Your phone dinged.

              • jackholloway

                HRMMM KERMIT THE FROG HERE

              • Steven Heger

                Stupid comments aside, this is what I come to FS to see! Tips, Tricks, and insight. keep ‘em coming

              • http://profile.yahoo.com/4IUITH2JX6K6TQPCTPNFJGEVLA Agamemnon

                Te fuți pe el de film ca nu e HD

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001311427835 Milenko Djilas

                This is Sean Armenta technique

              • Thomas Shue

                What exactly do you do to retain texture? Your technique, so I full understand, is to make two skin softening layers via Portraiture 2. One for the highlights and one for the shadows?  You thanked Lindsay, did she show you this? I was hoping to see somthing that retains all texture like a frequency separation but with portraiture. 

              • Chris Lambeth

                Thomas, this does the same thing as frequency separation. Not quite as well though as its obviously not FS, but it does a pretty close job. No, Lindsay is the girl I shot in the image as I stated in the video. 

              • http://twitter.com/JSkorupa Jakub Skorupa

                Please rename to ” Sean Armenta technique” ;-)

              • Chris Lambeth

                Had not heard of him till you mentioned this. Seems as though they are quite the same. Great minds think alike. 

              • Chris Lambeth

                Thank you Steven! 

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001311427835 Milenko Djilas

                Beauty Retouch Part 3 – Detail Enhancement: An FS PPT by Sean Armenta

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDwExw1Fr_A

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=513830842 Chris Szulwach

                Quick Suggestion.  When you reference a product, get the name right Imagenomic

              • Domagoj Kunic

                 modest, much?

                :-)

              • http://twitter.com/stueyholden Stuart Holden

                Seriously you guys, grow up – he posted a great retouching video for everyone to enjoy and you rip him off about it ? Go troll elsewhere if youre going to be negative – I dont see any of you providing videos and features like he did. FFS this is where people need to grow up on the internet – this is a creative community yet you bag him out on the sound of his voice? Seriously what are we grade 4′s ? Great video dude keep them coming I sure learned something from it! 

              • Robert Huber

                Excellent tip.  Thank you for that!

              • Bastien Chong

                Thanks, but why post this on Vimeo and have us pay for the pro account to access HD ? :(

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001311427835 Milenko Djilas

                Firstly, I did not wrote anything negative. I was expecting to learn
                something new. Instead I saw a tutorial that already exists by Sean Armenta on FstoppersPPT’s channel

                “I dont see any of you providing videos and features like he did”

                link for you If you like illustrator (My humble tutorial)http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h9puWXWKeo0

              • http://profile.yahoo.com/H3N2AAX42CFI5VF26MKMDYYKOE Nicholas

                Thanks for the tip. This is actually a real time saver for me. My last portrait shoot had images I retouched using this technique for proofs, and then the images that were purchased got the polished Photoshop treatment. Wonderful tip Chris!

              • Chris Lambeth

                Glad I could help Nicholas! 

              • http://fstoppers.com/author/rebecca Rebecca Britt

                Don’t get me wrong. I love Sean and everything that he did for FS… but that was awhile ago. I think Chris is in his right to post his own version here. 

                And btw… you’re still a troll. 

              • http://www.bertmclendon.com Bert McLendon

                Good tip, that product is pretty damn cool.  I actually use Portraiture for my ‘Blur’ layer combined with the frequency separation technique, it works pretty well.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607409089 Isaac Mg

                “Had not heard of him till you mentioned this. Seems as though they are quite the same. Great minds think alike.”What? Not heard of him? He has collaborated with this website. Come on!

              • noct12

                Well done FS. Wish I’d known about those Imagineomics tutorials a while ago- would have saved a bit of software money there- been using a combo of various softwares to get what I want. Cheers. Mark  

              • http://twitter.com/troybal Tobias Roybal

                I am guessing you really can’t do this layering if you have the Lightroom version of Portraiture 2. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/blakesommers77 Blake Sommers

                Awesome tutorial Chris!

              • http://profile.yahoo.com/734SRF74TIQ76W4SJS4P5JAXXM Phillip

                This sucked. The guy not only ripped off Armenta’s tut, but he stumbled all over it. Either be an informative site for serious photographers, or cram in all the junk that you can for hacks. This is probably the worst vid that I’ve ever seen on your site. 

              • Chris Lambeth

                Thanks Phillip! :) I didn’t realize that learning a program on your own and then sharing it was ripping people off. I guess exposing pictures properly is ripping the first photographer off too, and using photoshop to edit pictures and using portraiture to edit pictures. I guess everyone rips everyone off. I’ll keep that in mind.

                Take care! 

              • DeathNTexas

                 You ripped off that sarcasm :)

                You are so right Chris. There are always going to be comments from the peanut gallery. Ignore them.

              • DeathNTexas

                Don’t worry about it.

                Google will still find it for anyone looking for it. And if someone can’t find it that way, they probably aren’t smart enough to work Photoshop either.

              • http://www.facebook.com/ashkanahmadi2 Ashkan Ahmadi

                I love Sean’s works. He is by far my favorite photographer (Karl Taylor is amazing too) His photos are super clean.

              • http://twitter.com/Oscarelliphoto Alberto Oscarelli

                Lindsay Adler uses the same exact technique but I never heard anyone saying she ripped off Armenta (whom I actually have never heard of)

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001311427835 Milenko Djilas

                I completely agree with you!
                I am a hobby photographer (amateur) but thanks to these two photographers I’ve managed to learn a lot of good things about photography and processing

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001311427835 Milenko Djilas

                Whatever Rebbeca…

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001311427835 Milenko Djilas

                My opinion, it’s not terrible if someone improve someone else’s technique (adding something new, fix something that is wrong original author, etc. ..) Ok is that people who have not seen a tutorial by Sean Armenta see this tutorial, but note that your tutorial inspired by his tutorial.

              • DeathNTexas

                I think there is some misunderstanding. This is a common technique that anyone who has extensive experience uses. After a while, it is just accepted as the way to do it. I think it is great that you linked to Sean Armenta’s video (his fstoppers videos covered a lot of basics about two years ago), but this technique cannot really be credited to him or anyone else. It just is the way things are done.

              • http://twitter.com/urboiphoto Lindsey Epps-Tucker

                Cool post, thanks for sharing…

              • Violeta Risueño

                thanks! this helps a lot :) 
                (why is everyone being an ass?)

              • http://twitter.com/Claudesadik Claude Lee Sadik

                I would like to thank Chris Lambeth for making this interesting video, and the commenters for mentioning Sean Armenta who I didn’t know. Let’s keep a positive attitude :)

              • http://www.facebook.com/bowb4me Steve Kam

                 Jakub,did this sean dude create the software ? if not its not his technique either.this was simply a tutorial on how one could use it..

              • http://www.facebook.com/bowb4me Steve Kam

                 thanks Chris.very informative video !

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1493760217 Doug Howell

                Hadn’t seen the layer output function before.. thanks.. BTW – on future tutorials try to keep your mouse movements less eratic.. as a viewer that’s where my eyes follow and your mouse just about made me ill ;) Good info though.

              • Chris Lambeth

                I had a bit to much coffee. ;) Glad you enjoyed it! 

              • CrustyJuggler66

                Amenta’s brief spell on Fstoppers produced some of the best videos around and still readily available on youtube under FstoppersPPT.  I think it was obvious he wouldn’t be sticking around here too long with that kind of talent.  Good luck to him, i also believe he is now on the TV panel of Next top model Philippines, as well as a very accomplished professional photographer working out of LA.

                One could do a lot worse than absorb his videos if fashion and portraiture is your thing. High end and well edited.

              • shakazulu2496

                The video is down!

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