Comments on: Photoshop Tutorial: Advanced Skin Softening

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:25:00 +0000

Nice technique but as one guy said. I didnt like the fact that although the skin looked blurry, it really didnt do much for wrinkles or freckles or spots on the face. However, if you make a duplicate layer, then use the overlay mode and then use the high pass filter. Next you select the brush tool and use it to bring back the details in the eyes, lips and hair highlights, not to mention any jewelry or fingernails you wiill get a much better end result. Also, you can add a vector mask when using the brush tool and dial back the opacity to lessen the softning effect for a more natural look. Last of all add a slight amount of smart sharpening to sharpen up the overall photo. One more thing is to add around 10 or less contrast to make it pop.

By: Yogesh.KR

Yogesh.KR — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:33:31 +0000

Pretty complex one but very useful.. thanx a lot.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:40:13 +0000

Excellent tutorial! Very useful.

By: Kaya

Kaya — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:40:28 +0000

Extremely complicated compared to other tutorials out there. I don’t care for this version–the Gaussian Blur (in my opinion) shouldn’t be used to soften skin.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:05:44 +0000

Thanks a lot. Brilliant and simple but incredibly effective solution to an issue I’ve struggled with for a long time.

By: blaa

blaa — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:58:09 +0000

Too bad it makes it look like the picture is not as sharp as it used to be

By: elilil

elilil — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:23:51 +0000

Hi.great

By: lewis

lewis — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:29:21 +0000

Nice. Used in combination with the patch tool this works pretty well. I also found that copying the original image to a new layer, put in a 10 – 15 pixel gausian blur on it, setting it as an “overlay layer” at about 40% opacity and putting this over the top helped to restore some of the colour and tone lost during this technique

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:52:24 +0000

gee, can you explain how to use patch tool+ctrl+f to get better results?

thanks

By: Lauczi

Lauczi — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:40:21 +0000

thanx! It helped my mum to be younger