Freckle Reduction

[amy-rose]

I posted a tip for today on lightening freckles so I thought I'd post it here with examples...

This was from a recent bridal shoot (obviously). Her shoulders were so freckled it distracted from her face quite a bit because they appeared much darker.
A quick way to lighten Freckles:
Compress and copy background layer.
Select your brush --> change the mode to lighten --> change opacity to ~15-20%.
Hover your mouse over a light area of skin (lighter than the freckle areas) press alt (or option for mac) and click that area.
Now you can paint over those freckles and it will only affect the pixels that are darker than the area you selected.

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(this isn't a finished printable version- but the one she'll be viewing before ordering)

[kelticsol]

Very nice and thanks for the workflow on this.

[lputman]

That's a technique I will have to try...thanks for sharing.