![]() Pick a slightly darker shade than subject’s natural skin tone.The object here is to modify structure and shape to a face. The layer (created by the channel selection) help us to keep the “true” texture of the face since we are only painting this color on the lighter parts of the skin.Be sure to keep re-sampling the color often as the color tone changes around the face.Then using pressure sensitive pen (if you have one) and very soft brush (make sure to set your brush options to “pen pressure”, paint away at the face in the new layer (paint on the layer not the layer mask). Make a sample color of the skin with the eyedropper.Now back in layers palette, create a blank layer mask using the selection from the channel.Load that channel as active selection (cntrl click thumbnail).Look for the channel with the best skin texture.For light blemished you would change your mode to “darken”.For dark spots you can set mode to “lighten”, this help to save detail which surrounds the dark spot.Use spot healing brush with “content aware” feature checked.I find that the best way to learn is dive in head first above your skill set. If your not already familiar with the major tools you might get a bit lost. Note: the tips below assume a working knowledge of Photoshop on your part. Be sure to continue to research and develop an arsenal of techniques in your repertoire since different techniques work best in varying circumstance. Please note that these tutorial techniques shown below are far from a complete list of options for tackling these issues. As with anything in Photoshop, there are a hundred variations on these techniques, but to get the basic concept down, just grab a portrait of yourself and follow along with the advice below. ![]() The following article gives you some basic touch up techniques for skin, eyes, lips and teeth that result in very realistic natural looking images. However, all too often the touch up artist takes things too far, either by choice or more often becuase they simply don’t know the techniques for doing natural touch up work in Photoshop. I’ve first learned about this technique from photographer Jake Hicks, and I’ve seen a version of the technique used by multiple other photographers since.Photoshop of course is an amazing way to do touch up work on portrait photography. Once you’re done retouching the skin, just get rid of those 2 extra adjustments layers, they were just utilities to make your retouching life easier. Those two extra layers are especially great to help you see where color tones need to be evened out, or where local dodging and burning should be applied. Now, under those 2 adjustments layers, you can proceed with your favorite skin retouching techniques (e.g.: frequency separation). The curves adjustment really brings out the details Do Your Normal Skin Retouching / Tonal Adjustments / Dodging & Burning This will at the same time help bring out all the details in the image that would otherwise be to bright to notice or where the colors would create a visual diversion. Next, add a Curves adjustment layer and either set it to a blend mode of Multiply or bring the curve down to darken the image. Our image with a black and white adjustment layer Curves Adjustment Layer This will get rid of all the colors from the image and keep only the tonal values in the form of shades of gray. ![]() First, add a Black and White adjustment layer and stick with the default settings.
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