Retouching the skin in a photograph is a rather laborious task, and is somewhat reminiscent of the work of a plastic surgeon, but the result is worth the time spent.
Necessary
AdobePhotoshop program
Instructions
Step 1
Open the photo you want to process in Photoshop. Make a copy of the layer using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + J, continue working on this layer. Use the Clone Stamp tool to remove bumps and minor imperfections in the skin. Select a nice area of skin next to the place you want to edit, hold alt="Image" and click on that area - you've taken a sample of good skin. After that, click on the place you want to fix. The tool will duplicate good skin there. Make the radius of the tool not very large, also set the hardness to 50 px or less.
Step 2
After minor imperfections have been eliminated, we will even out the complexion. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to select the area of the face. After that, right-click on the selected path and select Feather from the drop-down menu. Set the Feather Radius to 3-5 px. Two duplicate the selection with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + J. Lighten the bottom of the duplicated areas using the Ctrl + M keyboard shortcut while moving the diagonal down a little. Darken the upper area the same way, while moving the diagonal up.
Step 3
Add a layer mask at the bottom of the Layers palette, fill it with black. Make a new layer in between these two layers. Fill it with # ba8471, add a layer mask and fill it with black. Activate the layer with mask and highlight. Take a brush with a small opacity and hardness parameter, set the main color to white, start lightening the photo in the places where it is needed.
Step 4
Set the Blending Mode to Soft Light for the skin color layer in the Layers palette. By clicking on the mask of this layer, take a brush with maximum opacity and pressure, hardness about 80, set the complexion by opening it with a brush. You can reduce the opacity of the layer. Use black as the main color and brush away the color from the eyes, hair and lips.
Step 5
On the top darkened layer, brighten the nostrils, eyebrows and eyelashes.
Here is a photo with lined skin.
