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Freeware to touch up pimples & blemishes on feminine face shots
I have the classic amateur photographer's problem in that a female friend
asked me to snap shots of her for a personal advertisement but the pimples and blemishes embarrass me. I do lovely face shots - but I can't not photograph the pimples. I haven't sent her the photos for fear of what she'll say. Before I send her the photos, I'd like to see if there is freeware that can touch them up quickly and easily. I already use Irfanview and Paint.NET for viewing and adding text respectively as Irfanview is the best quick freeware viewer and Paint.Net freeware seems to do the best with quick texting overall. What freeware approach would you recommend for quick touching up of minor pimples & other blemishes on a dozen JPEG portraits? |
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Freeware to touch up pimples & blemishes on feminine face shots
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 11:44:12 -0800, John Michaels wrote:
I have the classic amateur photographer's problem in that a female friend asked me to snap shots of her for a personal advertisement but the pimples and blemishes embarrass me. I do lovely face shots - but I can't not photograph the pimples. I haven't sent her the photos for fear of what she'll say. Before I send her the photos, I'd like to see if there is freeware that can touch them up quickly and easily. I already use Irfanview and Paint.NET for viewing and adding text respectively as Irfanview is the best quick freeware viewer and Paint.Net freeware seems to do the best with quick texting overall. What freeware approach would you recommend for quick touching up of minor pimples & other blemishes on a dozen JPEG portraits? Any editor that has a cloning tool, sample an area with the right texture and tones and clone it over the blemish. You might also like a little freeware utility called ClearSkinFX from Mediachance that does a pretty good overall job when you don't want to spend time on details. http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/cleanskin.htm |
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Freeware to touch up pimples & blemishes on feminine face shots
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:26:20 GMT, Paul Blarmy wrote:
PhotoToolKit has a special 'makeup' feature for just this purpose. http://www.vicman.net/phototoolkit/phototoolkit_f.htm Interesting. The referenced vicman site required an email registration to get the path of http://files.vicman.net/phtkinst.exe So I went to snapfiles instead for the same version 1.7 Photo Toolkit for Winxp. http://freealternative.wordpress.com...image-editing/ I said no when WinXP StartupMonitor freeware warned me about photo toolkit "The program I&F Viewer toolbar has registered the executable C:\bin\pic\edit\Photo Toolkit\ivbar\phototoolkitmem.exe -start to run at system startup. Do you wish to allow this change?" Then an error occurred in the winxp photo toolkit installation saying Setup: Unable to execute file: http://www.vicman.net/installed.php?Title=Photo Toolkit&Version=1.7 ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified. I generally have few problems installing winxp software. If this vicman software either requires a startup item or if it must be intalled into the hideously overbloated and under-organized idiotic "Program Files" hierarchy, then it's probably not well-written software. Or it could be that the snapfiles Photo Toolkit version 1.7 has an installation bug in it. Or, I could have a problem with my system. However, after OK'ing the error above, the lovely red-eye-reduction "sample.jpg" of the mother, baby, and half-eaten peach ovary showed up and the red-eye reduction button worked and the installation gave no other errors. Wierd huh? |
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Freeware to touch up pimples & blemishes on feminine face shots
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:56:54 -0600, Halversen Crowel wrote:
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/cleanskin.htm Interesting software. Thanks for the hint. This is a great start! The clean skin installer says it only works on indo-europeans, while the gal I'm touching up is black - but cleanskin seemed to work fine if I unchecked the pink button. Still, the blemishes exist so I'm going to try osme of the other suggested programs to remove pimples and blemishes from a portrait. |
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Freeware to touch up pimples & blemishes on feminine face shots
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:24:03 GMT, John Michaels wrote:
Path: newssvr12.news.prodigy.net!newsdbm05.news.prodigy. net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmas ter.news.prodigy.com!newssvr12.news.prodigy.net.PO STED!689056ff!not-for-mail From: John Michaels Subject: Freeware to touch up pimples & blemishes on feminine face shots Newsgroups: rec.photo.digital,alt.comp.freeware,rec.photo.tech nique.people MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Lines: 40 Message-ID: t NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.110.15.200 The referenced vicman site required an email registration simply to obtain a path of http://files.vicman.net/phtkinst.exe Then an error occurred in the winxp photo toolkit installation saying Setup: Unable to execute file: http://www.vicman.net/installed.php?Title=Photo Toolkit&Version=1.7 ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified. I reinstalled without errors using the freeware version from http://www.photo-toolkit.com which didn't require an email registration. Photo Toolkit freeware seems to work nicely on black faces manually while the suggested Clear Skin FX works fast automatically but not as well with ebony skin. Both seem like excellent choices. I noticed Photo Toolkit can also touch up - spot healing for skin blemishes & pimples - flash correction for shining skin - healing scars - whitening teeth - smoothing wrinkles PhotoToolkit freeware can even do manual caricatures and lighting effects. I think we have a freeware digital photograph editing review winner! |
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Freeware to touch up pimples & blemishes on feminine face shots
John Michaels wrote:
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:26:20 GMT, Paul Blarmy wrote: PhotoToolKit has a special 'makeup' feature for just this purpose. http://www.vicman.net/phototoolkit/phototoolkit_f.htm The referenced vicman site required an email registration to get the path of http://files.vicman.net/phtkinst.exe Registration is optional. The DL page is he http://www.vicman.net/download.php?T...hoto%20Toolkit q Download this program free: Please, fill the form to download Photo Toolkit. Click here if you don't want to enter your personal information /q The entire last line (Click here etc.) is the download link: http://files.vicman.net/phtkinst.exe The "Your Name (required)" etc. "requirements" apply only *if* you choose to fill in the form. I wish the author would rework that page. It's confusing. Susan -- Posted to alt.comp.freeware Search alt.comp.freeware (or read it online): http://www.google.com/advanced_group....comp.freeware Pricelessware & ACF: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org Pricelesswa http://www.pricelessware.org (not maintained) |
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