CS3 and Lightroom 2 help, Please.

Hi, I shot some photo's of a friend of mine and I am trying to smooth skin. I always use the method in Scott kelby's cs3 book. Well for some reason its not working. When you get the brusha and start to paint on face, it does not do anything, stays the same. Any suggestions?

Also, I just got Lightroom 2. Problem, when sending the photo back to cs3 and I went to save it, it will not let me save it as a jpeg. Only as a tiff or psd etc. Only thing when I save them like that, they will not open up off my disk that I put them on. Is there a way to get it back to jpeg.

I am going to post 1 picture, that I am trying to do the smoothing too. I have about 100 pictures. I am hoping that when she shows them to her belly dancing troop they will want pictures too! They just got new costumes.

Thanks,

Teani

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Anybody else? I don't know why my brush is not working on ps so I can smooth out the skin.

Teeny

teeny wrote in post #6352150
Hi, I shot some photo's of a friend of mine and I am trying to smooth skin. I always use the method in Scott kelby's cs3 book. Well for some reason its not working. When you get the brusha and start to paint on face, it does not do anything, stays the same. Any suggestions?

What brush?
What blending mode is it in?
Screenshot of the layers palette might help...

teeny wrote in post #6352150
Also, I just got Lightroom 2. Problem, when sending the photo back to cs3 and I went to save it, it will not let me save it as a jpeg. Only as a tiff or psd etc. Only thing when I save them like that, they will not open up off my disk that I put them on. Is there a way to get it back to jpeg.

LR exports as a 16bpc ProPhotoRGB file by default.
To save a jpg for web, you need to convert it to sRGB and 8bpc. (In that order).

Hi Rene', the blend mode is on normal and I am using a soft round brush. I don't know how to show the layers palette. Sorry, I really need to get this working.

Thanks,
Teeny

On Mac, press shift+Cmd+3.
On PC, press the "printscreen" button.

Find the screenshot, open it in PS, resize, and post it here...

What brush? Airbrush, clone tool, healing brush?
Are you using layers? Is the option "sample all layers" checked (depending on what tool you are using)?

Give some more info.

Thanks Rene' but it started working for some strange reason. I am not complaning tho.

Thanks,
Teeny