Skin tutorial: photoshop touch-up

 Skin tutorial: Photoshop touch-up

In class today, we learnt how to make an image look better in photoshop. We took an image of a girl from an online source, downloaded it and opened it on photoshop.

The first thing I had to do was use the spot healing brush tool. I used this to clear her blemishes and pimples off her face. From this, the women's face on the image started to look much clearer. When using the spot healing brush I was able to increase or decrease the brush size by using shift, squiggly square bracket, using either the left to decrease and the right to increase the size.

My next step was to duplicate the layer. I did this by going to the menu bar, clicking layer then duplicate layer. I needed to make a duplicate layer to add the smart blur filter. I processed this by clicking filter, blur then smart blur. The outcome of this looked very fuzzy, however, I hadn't completed the whole process.


I then needed to add a layer mask so I could erase the areas that didn't need smoothing out such as the hair, nostrils, eyebrows, eyes, mouth and teeth. This method was done by using the paintbrush tool and making sure the colour was black.

The outcome looked very similar to what I have seen in beauty and fashion magazines, such as Vogue.