Skin Fix

[McMum]

I love this process, easy to do and and one can be very conservative in ones approach.


Copy your layer
Filter/ blur/ Gaussian blur

Move the slider till all uneven bits are gone, write down the number.
Let say it is 9.
Cancel, do not execute

Filter/ Other/Highpass… set the radius to 9

Filter/blur/Gaussian blur, set the radius 1/3rd of the radius of the highpass number… in this case 3

Invert

Set opacity to 50% and the blend to linear light

Layer/ Layer mask/ Hide all

Use the white, soft brush, 50% opacity and carefully go over the bits you want to smoothen out.

[Taraven]

I really wish I knew how to do this and which program you are using to do it McMum. I took some photographs of my son and he has a nasty red blotch on his forehead just above his nose (he was cooking and hot oil splashed up. Ouch!!) I'm a complete and utter dork when it comes to doing things like this though, LOL

As for those eyes...how lucky is he? My son has blue eyes but not as blue as those. I'm envious!

Taraven

[McMum]

i am using photoshop. I do not mind to fix your photo you can email it to me
evelyn@emailme.com.au

[nybeachcpl]

Nice Job. I've used that technique for some compositions when I was learning elements. You've done a nice job with the sliders.

I've overdone the gaussian blur a couple of times and when I printed them it reminded me of a high school year book photo.

I recently switched form elements 6 to CS4. I love it. So much to learn.

[njedrn]

I am very envious of your post-editing ability. Very nice.

[TheDarkReaver]

Nice work, that guy's eyes are very scary though.