#SCOTT KELBY PERFECT LAYERS SKIN#
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#SCOTT KELBY PERFECT LAYERS FULL#

It can give a slightly blotchy result, but again if the images are not watched in full resolution, it will not be very noticeable.Ī last note for those of you that shoot in studio, this technique can also do wonder to clean up a dirty seamless background. The advantage of this technique over surface blur, Gaussian blur, or median filters is that you keep more details if the threshold is adjusted correctly. It will allow you to only have the radius and threshold to adjust and then refine the mask. You can go even further and create an action or script that does all of it for you. For weddings, I would only lower the opacity and reveal the stamp layer only where needed and not on the whole face like shown here. However, for proofing in a small resolution, this does the trick perfectly. It is by no mean an image ready to be delivered. Do not think for a minute I would ever use this image in my portfolio or social media like this.

Here's the final result with a little bit of tweaking done on the mask:Īs you can see, this is very quick and efficient. In my example, the eyes are affected by the cleaning layer but I do not want them to be altered. I can then further refine my mask with a brush and even play with the opacity of my stamp layer.

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The mask will hide the adjustment on the image except on the skin tones. Once my selection is created, I reactivate my cleaning layer and click the Add Layer Mask to create a mask. In the window that popped up, I select Skin Tones and adjust the fuzziness if needed. Now to go as fast as possible, I hide the cleaning layer, select the background layer and go to Select > Color Range. I focused on the cheek area as this is the part I wanted to clean up the most. For my sample image, a radius of 61 with the threshold levels set at 5 seems right. Once the problem area is blurred with the surrounding areas, you can change the threshold to bring back details. Turn the threshold to 0 and adjust the radius to blur problem area of the skin. If you are familiar with surface blur, this works pretty much the same way. The first one being the radius and the second one the threshold levels. The window that just opened up offers you two options. Then go to Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches. The first thing we have to do is a copy merge of all the layers (or the background layer if you opened it with no previous retouching). The image below will be my sample image for the rest of this article: We are going to start with our developed raw file opened in Photoshop. So I tried the different techniques I used for my beauty and fashion retouching until I found one that would take as little time as possible, but still give pretty decent results on most pictures. To me, it was a shame to create sublime memories of her big day knowing the only thing she would see on her pictures were these spots. She was so stressed out the week before her wedding her face was covered with red spots. The idea to use it for proofing and weddings pictures came to me when I encountered a bride with very bad skin. When taking the time to adjust all the settings of this technique, this method can give quite good results for small portions of an image.

So unless my clients needed perfect retouching on the images when zoomed at 100 percent or more, I would use the technique I am about to show you. Removing small bumps, red dots, and tiny hair can be very painful. I used to use this technique for fashion retouching when a model would come in with poorly shaved legs.

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