Photoshop Tutorial: How to Quickly Smooth Skin and Remove Blemishes & Scars

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I'm going to show you how to create

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smooth blemish free skin from a photo

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this is an update of a tutorial I did on

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an earlier version of Photoshop open a

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photo you'd like to retouch I downloaded

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this one from shutterstock.com the first

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step is to make a selection of your

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subject skin there are many ways to do

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this so choose the method that works

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best for you for example you could use

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your quick selection tool and drag over

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the skin to select it to remove areas of

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the selection press and hold alt or

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option as you drag over it

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you

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go to select and refine edge

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I did an in-depth tutorial on refine

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edge so I won't be going over all the

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details here check smart radius and

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increase the radius a little bit brush

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over the areas where the hair overlaps

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the skin

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and output it as a new layer with layer

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masks

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click the box next to your original

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photo to make it visible and go to

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filter blur and surface blur

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for this image I'll make the radius 16

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and the threshold 12 levels however you

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may want to adjust these amounts

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depending on the size and resolution of

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your photo choose a combination that

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smooths out the skin just enough to hide

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most blemishes and imperfections don't

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be concerned about its texture yet we'll

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take care of that in a minute

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next we'll restore back the areas of the

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face that we don't want smoothed out

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such as the eyes eyebrows and lips to do

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this click the layer mask to make it

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active and open your brush tool and your

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brush picker will take care of the size

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in a moment make the hardness 0% and the

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opacity and flow a hundred percent then

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press Enter or return

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to make your brush larger or smaller

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press the right or left bracket key on

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your keyboard

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brush over any areas you want to reveal

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back the original unretouched photo and

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adjust the brush size accordingly I'll

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brush inside the eyebrows eyes and

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eyelids

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lips

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and fine hair overlapping the foreign

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if you have areas of the face where the

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skin pores didn't smooth over let's blur

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them a bit so they'll blend into the

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face make the face layer active

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and open your blur tool make it strength

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100% and adjust its size accordingly

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brush over those areas to blend them in

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next we'll remove any spots left on the

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face open your Spot Healing Brush make

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sure the content-aware button is active

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adjust the size of your tool a bit

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larger than the blemish and brush over

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it continue until all the blemishes

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scars and other imperfections are

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removed

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when you're done go to filter noise and

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add noise

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tick Gaussian and check monochromatic

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drag the slider to an amount that

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results with the grain that matches the

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rest of your image I'm using an amount

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of approximately one and a half percent

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however your image may require a

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different amount depending on its size

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and resolution

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this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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thanks for watching