Simple Skin Smoothing in Photoshop

Photoshop

Written by Bueaka

Some instructional images were resized to fit the browser, click them for full view. The original image As you can see, the girls skin is not that smooth and it also has some imperfections. We'll get rid of them in a few steps: 1. Using the healing brush to remove imperfections Select the Healing brush (J) and while holding down the Alt key, select an area that you want to use as a pattern: Then click on the imperfections to remove them. You may select a different pattern as you wish in order to fit your work area. Using a smaller brush size gives you a more accurate correction. This is my result: 2. Smoothing the skin using the Median Filter We need to make a selection of the skin (we don’t want to smooth the eyes or the hair too). Press Q to enter the Quick Mask Mode, and using the Brush Tool (B) with the appropriate size, define the needed area: Press Q again to get the selection, press Ctrl+Shift+I, right-click inside it and select Layer via Copy: Apply the median filter (Filter-Noise-Median): Reduce the layer opacity to 80%: 3. Adding a bump as a final touch Create a new layer. Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E to merge the layers. Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer. Apply a Gaussian blur (Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur): Set the blending mode to Soft Light and reduce the opacity to 45%: This is my final result: Click the image for full size Google AdSense with Allowed Sites Every AdSense Publisher had nightmares when hearing of all the horror stories where people get banned from AdSense because someone else used their AdSense code on malicious sites, breaking the Google AdSense TOS. This all ended when Google decided to listen to the community and build the Allowed Sites feature. PHP Forms In this tutorial you will learn the basics of working with forms using only one php file. Install Photoshop on Ubuntu Linux Believe it or not Photoshop CS2 is now fully supported on Ubuntu Linux using Wine. For a long period of time I was eager in switching to Ubuntu but the incompatibility of my most used Windows based applications always made me switch back to Linux. No more Windows based Photoshop skills, now you can powerup Photoshop on Ubuntu. Search engine friendly post slug URLs In this PHP tutorial you are going to learn how the famous post slugs are created and how you can create your own post-slug function for your web applications. Input form text switch using JavaScript In this tutorial we are presenting a very simple and efficient method of providing extra information in form text fields using simple JavaScript. Subscribe now via RSS feed and get all the new tutorials written by rani , April 21, 2008 good content in simpale words written by Sarko , May 01, 2008 I can't get this tutorial to work properly since the menus aren't coming up or whatever, What edition of Photoshop can I ask that you use? I use Photoshop 7, could that be the problem maybe? written by sava? oyunu , December 29, 2008 ? have followed your writing for a long time.really you have given very successful information. In spite of my english trouale,I am trying to read and understand your writing. And ? am following frequently.I hope that you will be with us together with much more scharings. I hope that your success will go on. written by desingurajan , February 20, 2009 hi!sarko i cloud not understand for your question yeah! written by romeo , October 13, 2009 This page is very helpfull for the biginner of photoshop Do you need more help? Ask now! Comment Name Email Website   Add Comment Trackback(0) Comments (5)

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