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BIGTYMER · 04-26-2010, 07:45 PM

What brush, style or something are designers using to get the girls to look like candy on the gf paysite tours?

Example:

Mutt · 04-26-2010, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

What brush, style or something are designers using to get the girls to look like candy on the gf paysite tours?

google 'Photoshop plugin Portraiture' - that will do it. the best at it have other tricks they manually do.

essentially, you're smoothing/blurring skin, boosting saturation, adding skin highlights, dodge tool to whiten the eyes, same to the eyes

Portraiture is the way to go if you're not a Photoshop wizard.

M0nk · 04-26-2010, 07:59 PM

I add some blur manually.. but those look a bit exagerated for my taste.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 04-26-2010, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Mutt

google 'Photoshop plugin Portraiture' - that will do it. the best at it have other tricks they manually do.

essentially, you're smoothing/blurring skin, boosting saturation, adding skin highlights, dodge tool to whiten the eyes, same to the eyes

Portraiture is the way to go if you're not a Photoshop wizard.

Basically what I used to do for that airbrushed bright airbrushed looks. sharpened the edges a little, blurred the flesh tones with the blur tool, tweaked the saturation. doesn't look like they did much more than just do a blur over the whole thing, and raise the saturation a little on that image to me. I'm no pro though...

fatfoo · 04-26-2010, 08:04 PM

These photographs do not even capture a second in time. They are absolutely still photographs with no movement. Is that impossible? No, not at all. Good luck, BIGTYMER.

Amputate Your Head · 04-26-2010, 08:09 PM

Duplicate the content layer
Smart blur the duplicate
Lower opacity of the blurred duplicate to somewhere around 40%
Add an adjustment layer and tweak the curves on both with clipping masks.

Should take all of 4 seconds to accomplish.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 04-26-2010, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Duplicate the content layer
Smart blur the duplicate
Lower opacity of the blurred duplicate to somewhere around 40%
Add an adjustment layer and tweak the curves on both with clipping masks.

Should take all of 4 seconds to accomplish.

There ya go...

BIGTYMER · 04-26-2010, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Duplicate the content layer
Smart blur the duplicate
Lower opacity of the blurred duplicate to somewhere around 40%
Add an adjustment layer and tweak the curves on both with clipping masks.

Should take all of 4 seconds to accomplish.

You are the man!! Worked perfectly! Thanks man!

And thanks everyone else too!

Chosen · 04-26-2010, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

What brush, style or something are designers using to get the girls to look like candy on the gf paysite tours?

Example:

Nice pic

sortie · 04-26-2010, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

What brush, style or something are designers using to get the girls to look like candy on the gf paysite tours?

Example:

Wow, this post just shows how much I don't know about porn content.
I would have never asked the question you just did.

Spankys Teens · 04-26-2010, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Duplicate the content layer
Smart blur the duplicate
Lower opacity of the blurred duplicate to somewhere around 40%
Add an adjustment layer and tweak the curves on both with clipping masks.

Should take all of 4 seconds to accomplish.

WOW

mynameisjim · 04-26-2010, 09:55 PM

Cool effect.

But why are designers glamming up GF sites? Doesn't make any sense.

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

You are the man!! Worked perfectly! Thanks man!

And thanks everyone else too!

Glad it worked out for you. It's a whole image effect, (obviously) but doing it that way you can adjust it to your liking using the opacity slider, and / or a layer mask and a soft brush.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 04-27-2010, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by mynameisjim

Cool effect.

But why are designers glamming up GF sites? Doesn't make any sense.

you must be old and not have any little emo hoes on your facebook/myspace, lol. that's THEIR style, they just love to blur the fuck out of their pictures and shit...

Deej · 04-27-2010, 12:31 PM

Cake walk... cept its not curves Amp, its saturation and highlites...

SCORE Ralph · 04-27-2010, 12:33 PM

I have a 2 step process for this effect... my own lil recipe, haha

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Deej

Cake walk... cept its not curves Amp, its saturation and highlites...

Well, the final effect is up to the individual designer. I do some things with even more layers, desat and vibrance that makes things really interesting... but without going into full blown tutorial mode, he seemed happy with the quick & free (pluginless) effect.

Depends on how good the content is to begin with too. Some need extra adjustment, some don't.

Deej · 04-27-2010, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Well, the final effect is up to the individual designer. I do some things with even more layers, desat and vibrance that makes things really interesting... but without going into full blown tutorial mode, he seemed happy with the quick & free (pluginless) effect.

Depends on how good the content is to begin with too. Some need extra adjustment, some don't.

You sir.... are absolutely correct

alan-l · 04-27-2010, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

What brush, style or something are designers using to get the girls to look like candy on the gf paysite tours?

Example:

this is stupid. the idea of amateur sites is to look..... amateur. That's why all these GF sites convert like crap

Deej · 04-27-2010, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by alan-l

this is stupid. the idea of amateur sites is to look..... amateur. That's why all these GF sites convert like crap

youre joking right?

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by alan-l

this is stupid. the idea of amateur sites is to look..... amateur. That's why all these GF sites convert like crap

I agree. It's the wrong effect for that type of site.
I wasn't advising, just telling him how to do it.

alias · 04-27-2010, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Duplicate the content layer
Smart blur the duplicate
Lower opacity of the blurred duplicate to somewhere around 40%
Add an adjustment layer and tweak the curves on both with clipping masks.

Should take all of 4 seconds to accomplish.

We have a winner, nice AMP.

fris · 04-27-2010, 12:54 PM

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 04-27-2010, 01:25 PM

i dunno what the hell you guys are talking about...

the whole overblurred, high saturation, ducklipped pose is ENTIRELY true to the teenage myspace attention whore look. this new exgf niche ISN'T just your old amateur niche with a new name...

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

i dunno what the hell you guys are talking about...

the whole overblurred, high saturation, ducklipped pose is ENTIRELY true to the teenage myspace attention whore look. this new exgf niche ISN'T just your old amateur niche with a new name...

Guess I'm looking at it from a different angle. I think "ex-gf" I think of candid shots snapped at home with a pocket camera. Not Myspace. Not semi-produced wannabe pornstar PShop jobs.

I could be wrong.

Elli · 04-27-2010, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by fris

that's hot

mynameisjim · 04-27-2010, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

you must be old and not have any little emo hoes on your facebook/myspace, lol. that's THEIR style, they just love to blur the fuck out of their pictures and shit...

You're right, I don't have any underage girls as friends on myspace or facebook.

But I think glamming up gf sites is more about webmasters not understanding the point of self shot sites as opposed to them tapping into the fact that emo is working it's way more mainstream.

M0nk · 04-27-2010, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by alan-l

this is stupid. the idea of amateur sites is to look..... amateur. That's why all these GF sites convert like crap

what? they convert really well for me..

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 04-27-2010, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Guess I'm looking at it from a different angle. I think "ex-gf" I think of candid shots snapped at home with a pocket camera. Not Myspace. Not semi-produced wannabe pornstar PShop jobs.

I could be wrong.

If you were to ask me, I'd say that the roots of the "EXGF" niche are undeniable, they grew themselves from the popularity of the "jailbait" boards, where what is shared is generally myspace/photobucket/facebook attention whores posing in their panties,s/bikini, doing little ducklip poses/myspace angles yadda yadda, not your general oh hey look at me naked on my digital cam thing.

Where do you see a lot of the exgf traffic flow, surprise again, jailbait type boards. The EXGF niche is just an innovative way to convert what i like to think of as "creepy old bastard" traffic. There's a reason why you see the bright colorful myspace-ish pics in all the banners and tours. Because that's the traffic flow they are targeting.

If that's what they're going for they're nailing it. I got quite a few younger chicks on my facebook. Buddies little sisters, cousin and whatnot. And the pics they post, bang on with this shit. overblurred, weird color effects and filters. stupid poetry typed over them. That's just what they do.

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

If you were to ask me, I'd say that the roots of the "EXGF" niche are undeniable, they grew themselves from the popularity of the "jailbait" boards, where what is shared is generally myspace/photobucket/facebook attention whores posing in their panties,s/bikini, doing little ducklip poses/myspace angles yadda yadda, not your general oh hey look at me naked on my digital cam thing.

Where do you see a lot of the exgf traffic flow, surprise again, jailbait type boards. The EXGF niche is just an innovative way to convert what i like to think of as "creepy old bastard" traffic. There's a reason why you see the bright colorful myspace-ish pics in all the banners and tours. Because that's the traffic flow they are targeting.

Haven't had the pleasure of researching for that niche yet. Good info dude. Is that fairly accurate you think for the majority of the niche, versus the other angle I suggested?

BestXXXPorn · 04-27-2010, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

If you were to ask me, I'd say that the roots of the "EXGF" niche are undeniable, they grew themselves from the popularity of the "jailbait" boards, where what is shared is generally myspace/photobucket/facebook attention whores posing in their panties,s/bikini, doing little ducklip poses/myspace angles yadda yadda, not your general oh hey look at me naked on my digital cam thing.

Where do you see a lot of the exgf traffic flow, surprise again, jailbait type boards. The EXGF niche is just an innovative way to convert what i like to think of as "creepy old bastard" traffic. There's a reason why you see the bright colorful myspace-ish pics in all the banners and tours. Because that's the traffic flow they are targeting.

If that's what they're going for they're nailing it. I got quite a few younger chicks on my facebook. Buddies little sisters, cousin and whatnot. And the pics they post, bang on with this shit. overblurred, weird color effects and filters. stupid poetry typed over them. That's just what they do.

qft, nailed it...

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 04-27-2010, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Haven't had the pleasure of researching for that niche yet. Good info dude. Is that fairly accurate you think for the majority of the niche, versus the other angle I suggested?

I guess you could look at it going down both lines. I think you could go a step further and break it into the nude and non-nude sort of content. There's a lot of both. You got the nude mirror shot sort of boobie flashing content, and then you got the non-nude myspace attention whore type of content. I guess it depends which route you want to follow down. That's not to say you can't combine the two either, but I think there's a lot of people out there who obviously enjoy the non-nude teenage attention whore content where poor attempts at "glamming" up their own photos for their profiles is nothing out of the ordinary. For the latter, I think this type of tour page is perfect.

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

I guess you could look at it going down both lines. I think you could go a step further and break it into the nude and non-nude sort of content. There's a lot of both. You got the nude mirror shot sort of boobie flashing content, and then you got the non-nude myspace attention whore type of content. I guess it depends which route you want to follow down. That's not to say you can't combine the two either, but I think there's a lot of people out there who obviously enjoy the non-nude teenage attention whore content where poor attempts at "glamming" up their own photos for their profiles is nothing out of the ordinary. For the latter, I think this type of tour page is perfect.

Thanks dude, I learned something here today.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 04-27-2010, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Thanks dude, I learned something here today.

Don't take anything I say as fact, it's all opinion...

Elli · 04-27-2010, 03:15 PM

Wow. I feel old.

[ Nate ] · 04-27-2010, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by M0nk

I add some blur manually.. but those look a bit exagerated for my taste.

WAY to exagerated...

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by [ Nate ]

WAY to exagerated...

The key to a proper "candy" blur is sharpness. The eyes and the teeth are the meters. If either the eyes or teeth (and to some extent, the hair) are not sharp & crystal clear, it's over blurred. Lots of other factors come into play such as saturation, skin tone, shadows & light source.... but without sharpness, nothing else matters.

alias · 04-27-2010, 03:27 PM

AJC is on point. "creepy old bastard" sums it up well.

BillyHoe · 04-27-2010, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Duplicate the content layer
Smart blur the duplicate
Lower opacity of the blurred duplicate to somewhere around 40%
Add an adjustment layer and tweak the curves on both with clipping masks.

Should take all of 4 seconds to accomplish.

quick and easy ;)

hypedough · 04-27-2010, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by fatfoo

These photographs do not even capture a second in time. They are absolutely still photographs with no movement. Is that impossible? No, not at all. Good luck, BIGTYMER.

That's all we need to know about a topic on Photoshop, not photographs. Fixurbotzzzzz

Konkan · 04-27-2010, 03:49 PM

PortraitProfessionalStudio - it is stand-alno program and works perfect for portrait shots
Portraiture plug-In for Photoshop is kinda best for quick skin retouching and gives good results same like on your example

seeandsee · 04-27-2010, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

What brush, style or something are designers using to get the girls to look like candy on the gf paysite tours?

Example:

nice bunny

TheDoc · 04-27-2010, 04:15 PM

The two girls on the right have a sharpen on the pictures and the skin softened back after the sharpen. Sharpening makes the hair pixelate like it is.

abyss_al · 04-27-2010, 04:18 PM

open file in PS
duplicate layer
filter --> blur --> gaussian blur --> 3.0-5.0
overlay that layer, then lower the opacity to where you like it

simple basic way

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDoc

The two girls on the right have a sharpen on the pictures and the skin softened back after the sharpen. Sharpening makes the hair pixelate like it is.

Sharpen the original layer only, not the blur layer. After setting the opacity, use a layer mask and brush out (or brush back) any areas that need more sharpness.

I've held back from judging the OP pic because I don't know if it's a screencap or a hotlink or what's been done to it.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 04-27-2010, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Sharpen the original layer only, not the blur layer. After setting the opacity, use a layer mask and brush out (or brush back) any areas that need more sharpness.

I've held back from judging the OP pic because I don't know if it's a screencap or a hotlink or what's been done to it.

and i learn a little something today too

BIGTYMER · 04-27-2010, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDoc

The two girls on the right have a sharpen on the pictures and the skin softened back after the sharpen. Sharpening makes the hair pixelate like it is.

That sample I reduced to 50% quality so that might of added some of the pixelation.

Amputate Your Head · 04-27-2010, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

That sample I reduced to 50% quality so that might of added some of the pixelation.

I figured you probably did. The 2nd girl from the right, the blonde, her lipstick outline is fuzzy. When there's no teeth to judge sharpness, the lip line works. (the girl on the far right has blurry teeth). And there are visible artifacts throughout.

But that's beside the point. You did get the effect you were looking for, yes?

TheDoc · 04-27-2010, 05:06 PM

If the image reduction did it, it would have done it equally to the entire photo...

The girls with the sharpen have more depth, that's how you achieve that look. It's not done to the girls to the left because her hair is black.

DWB · 04-27-2010, 05:16 PM

That looks like total shit.

It reminds me of when someone first figures out HTML and finds a free resource for cheesy animated gifs. Or all those stupid "Thanks for the ad" images on MySpace. Oh snap, you mean I can blur skin with photoshop? Look out!

If you need to clean up an image, the idea is not to make it look like it's fake. This plastic shit is over the top and kills my wood. Your surfers will not care much for this either as it defeats the entire purpose of the word "amateur." However, this also explains why there are so many threads about people's sales sucking. No clue about the market they are selling in.

04-26-2010, 07:45 PM	#1
BIGTYMER Junior Achiever Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Walled Garden Posts: 17,066	Photoshop Candy Look What brush, style or something are designers using to get the girls to look like candy on the gf paysite tours? Example: Last edited by BIGTYMER; 04-26-2010 at 07:50 PM..

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DWB Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Encrypted. Access denied. Posts: 31,779	That looks like total shit. It reminds me of when someone first figures out HTML and finds a free resource for cheesy animated gifs. Or all those stupid "Thanks for the ad" images on MySpace. Oh snap, you mean I can blur skin with photoshop? Look out! If you need to clean up an image, the idea is not to make it look like it's fake. This plastic shit is over the top and kills my wood. Your surfers will not care much for this either as it defeats the entire purpose of the word "amateur." However, this also explains why there are so many threads about people's sales sucking. No clue about the market they are selling in.