Skin Smoothing Tutorial

[HunterProductions]

Here is a short and simple tutorial about skin smoothing that I published on my blog.

[HunterProductions]

I would like to see other peoples results posted back here, so if you give this a try please post your result.

[Cheryl McCain]

This was a very nice, quick and effective tutorial. However, I didn't see a "median" blur in my options. I'm using PSCS3.
Did I just miss it somewhere? I ended up using the "surface blur" which made a nice soft effect and blurred out the diaper marks in my newborn photo but I'm wondering if I got it too blurry.

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[HunterProductions]

I am sorry I did forget to mention that was using CS2, I see that CS3 does not have median blur, Gaussian blur works too. Looks like you got some pretty good results with the surface blur also.
Thanks for posting your results.

[HunterProductions]

I know that more people than this have tried this technique, come on people post your results for all to see.

[zona5101]

some people may have a problem following it because of the screen resolution in the tutorial. For example one step instructs: "Use the same settings that are in the dialog box below". But you can't make out any of the words or settings in the image of the dialogue box.

Folks may also want to check out this link for some more skin post processing ideas: Christy Schuler I Retouching

[HunterProductions]

Originally Posted by zona5101

some people may have a problem following it because of the screen resolution in the tutorial. For example one step instructs: "Use the same settings that are in the dialog box below". But you can't make out any of the words or settings in the image of the dialogue box.

Folks may also want to check out this link for some more skin post processing ideas: Christy Schuler I Retouching

All you have to do is click on the image to see the actual size of the image if you cannot read it, sorry about that but the blog only shows the image at that size.

[Vallie]

Thanks for the tut, I tried it out on my photo of my daughter in CS3 using Surface Blur at 70%. Thank you for posting this, it was fun playing around with it.

[HunterProductions]

Originally Posted by Vallie

Thanks for the tut, I tried it out on my photo of my daughter in CS3 using Surface Blur at 70%. Thank you for posting this, it was fun playing around with it.

Looks like it worked pretty well, thanks for posting your results.

[HunterProductions]

All of these submissions seem to produce great results even using the different types of blur, I would like to say thanks to all who submitted your results I really appreciate being able to help in some way, I am currently working on a new tutorial to post here soon and hope to be able to inspire and help some more people along the way.
Thanks