Photoshop’s Super Skin Softening Technology

This tutorial is compiled from the experience of foreign experts. There are many omissions in the content ~ please bear with me. The first step:

First, use the Healing Brush Tool to buff away large, stubborn pimples. Then Ctrl+J to copy the original image and Ctrl+G to join the group. Here, name the group Airbrush, and name the layer in the group Blur. You can refer to my layer structure~

Step two:

Select the Blur layer and execute Filter-Blur-Surface Blur. Why use "Surface Blur"? Why?? Surface Blur can retain more edge details than Gaussian Blur~! The degree of blur here is based on the eyes. Accurate, make sure the eyes of your picture are clear, you can refer to me for the data~

Step three:

After polishing, the skin becomes a plastic person~ Don't worry, next create a new layer on the Blur layer, named here Texture. Change the layer mode to Strong Light, this layer will restore the skin texture more naturally.

After selecting the layer, execute Shift+F5 and fill it with 50% gray.

Step 4:

Next, perform Filter-Add Noise, as shown in the data. After adding it, the photo seems to be even scarier~~ Don’t be afraid, let’s use the Gaussian blur method below.

Step 5:

Execute Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur, touch one pixel

Step 6:

Next we need to change the Texture to make it closer to the color of the skin. Select the eyedropper tool and sample the average color of the skin. Then open the color panel, click the menu button on the right, and select the Hsb slider.

Step 7:

Ctrl+U opens the Hue and Saturation panel, select "Coloring", and pull left and right to make the layer brighter~

Step 8:

Let me tell you a good news and a bad news at this point. The bad news is that the tutorial is halfway through. The good news is that the next steps are very simple. Ok, use the mouse to slam the neglected Airbrush layer and create a black mask (if If you don’t know how to build it, please face the wall for 2 minutes)

Step 9:

Use a white brush to erase the skin except for the background of the eyes and mouth. Be more careful. The shortcut keys for brush adjustment are [ and ]. After erasing, the mask will be a black and white little man who looks like a child's drawing.

Step 10:

Do you know why the Texture was made so bright just now? It’s just for easy wiping~ Now return to the Texture layer, pull left and right to change the color to normal.

-Increasing hue reduces yellow

-Saturation is greatly reduced, making skin tones look more natural

Step 11:

Now comes the exciting moment - restoring skin details~! Click on the Airbrush layer and select the menu item: Image - Apply Image. Change the channel to "red". Why use red? If you try green and blue, you will know why I use red =. =.Well, because red contains the smallest skin blemishes

Conclusion

Let’s compare it~ The effect is still very obvious~ If you enlarge the original picture to 100%, you will see that the skin is milky and soft while retaining the details to the maximum extent~

Finally, just change the white balance so that the image is not clear.