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Photoshop Tutorial "Skin Smoothing"

This is a tutorial that you can use to smooth the skin on portraits, aside from smoothing it also adds a slight blur. I use this technique a lot and thought that it would be nice to share it with everyone and also I would like to see different results that people get with some of their own photos. If you do this tutorial please post your results Tabblo in the Photoshop Group.

Thanks, HunterProductions

 
Choose your image.
 
Duplicate the background layer

Try different settings in the following step, you can get some pretty amazing results with this setting.

Just remember that you should be able to make out the outline of the image so dont add too much median noise.

I most usually use between 10-20 and I generally get pretty good results but try your own settings and make it yours and see what you get.

 
Add median noise
 
Adjust the radius to 20, or use your own setting.
 
Add a Layer Mask and pick Reveal all.
 
Right after you add the mask apply the image to the mask
 
In the apply image dialog box pick the background layer and blending to normal and hit ok, The image you see after this step is the final result.
 
Before
 
After with median noise at 20.

Also you can adjust the Hue and Saturation of the duplicate layer if you want to enhance the color, Just make sure you select the image and not the mask.

Goodluck and Enjoy.
COMMENTS
Nina1960 said at 6:39 a.m. on Apr 9, 2007:
Thank you for this tutorial~
Pkeener said at 9:31 a.m. on Apr 9, 2007:
This is so great!!!
Jigs said at 9:53 a.m. on Apr 9, 2007:
Wow, thanks for sharing your expertise! You make it look so easy, though I know it's not. But I will give this a try one of these days. :)
Zippywinds said at 10:41 a.m. on Apr 9, 2007:
cool info and beautiful model, thanks :)
Pkeener said at 11:31 a.m. on Apr 9, 2007:
Just read this slowly and I get it. Cool!
DEE-Trow said at 3:26 p.m. on Apr 9, 2007:
Thanks! I will take all the help I can get!
Floridamolle said at 7:30 a.m. on Apr 11, 2007:
I love this kind of tabblos, there is so much to learn. Thank you for sharing your great knowledge
HunterProductions said at 12:55 a.m. on Apr 12, 2007:
Glad I could be some help....and thanks for the comments!!
DVP said at 11:04 a.m. on Apr 12, 2007:
Nicely done! It's great that you used such big screenshots so we could see what was happening during your tutorial. I look forward to another installment!
MichelleMc said at 7:57 p.m. on Aug 30, 2008:
very nice and thanks for the instructions, i have the worst time trying to figure out the layers in photoshop..I would love to learn all that I can for that program, I have it and barely use it! Seems like such a waste to me when I know there is so much to do with it...thanks again
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