Name: Photoshop Tutorial: How to Quickly Smooth Skin and Remove Blemishes & Scars
Uploaded: 2017-11-12T19:40:29.000Z
Duration: 4 min 34 s
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Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.

I'm going to show you how to create
smooth, blemish-free skin from a photo.

This isn't update of a tutorial I did on an earlier version of Photoshop.

I downloaded this one from Shutterstock.com.

The first step is to make a selection of
your subject's skin.

There are many ways to do this, so choose the method that works best for you.

For example, you could use your Quick Selection tool

To remove areas at the selection, press
and hold Alt or Option as you drag over it.

I did an in-depth tutorial on Refine Edge, so I won't be going over all the details here.

Check Smart Radius and increase the Radius a little bit.

Brush over the areas where the hair overlaps the skin

and output it as a "New Layer with Layer Mask".

Click the box next to your original photo to make it visible

you may want to adjust these amounts
depending on the size and resolution

of your photo. Choose a combination
that smooths out the skin

just enough to hide most blemishes and imperfections.

Don't be concerned about its texture yet.
We'll take care that in a minute.

Next, we'll restore back the areas of
the face that we don't want smoothed out,

To do this, click the Layer Mask to make it active

We'll take care of the size in a moment.
Make the Hardness: 0%

and the Opacity and Flow: 100%. Than, press Enter or Return.

To make your brush larger or smaller, press the right or left bracket key on your keyboard.

Brush over any areas you want to reveal back the original unretouched photo

I'll brush inside the eyebrows, eyes and eye lids

If you have areas of the face where the
skin pores didn't smooth over,

let's blur them a bit, so they'll blend into the face.

and adjust its size accordingly. Brush over those areas to blend them in.

Next, we'll remove any spots left on the face.

Make sure the Content Aware button is active.

Adjust the size of your tool a bit larger than the blemish and brush over it.

Continue until all the blemishes, scars and other imperfections are removed.

When you're done, go to Filter, Noise and "Add Noise".

Tick "Gaussian" and check "Monochromatic".

Drag the sider to an amount that results with the grain that matches the rest if your image.

I'm using an amount of approximately one
and a half percent, however,

your image may require a different
amount depending on its size and resolution.

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