Skin smoothing in Photoshop - a few video tutorials

[rushnp774]

I just wrote a blog post about how to smooth skin in Photoshop, and thought I'd share it. It covers some of the basics of:

* The different blur techniques (gaussian, surface, and smart blur) used to actually make the skin smoother.
* Different layer blending modes used to help make the effect look more natural and believable.
* Masking/erasing parts of the effect to control which parts of the image are blurred.

It might be a bit basic for the Photoshop pros out there, but for anyone else who wants to get his/her hands wet with the basics of how to achieve smooth, glamourous skin, it should do the trick.

The post is called: Skin Smoothing in Photoshop

Also, if you have any questions, or especially suggestions about what you'd like me to write about in future blog posts, I'd be very appreciative for the feedback. I love writing about what my audience wants to learn about.

Hope it helps!

 

[big pimp]

thanks very much for doing this work - i'll certainly be looking over it!

 

[JasonRS]

It looks like you've just linked to a 5 different youtube video's and put a bit of text to fill the jumps.

This seems to be the case for all of your retouching posts. Personally I'd want to see information and video's you've created yourself, not just linked from elsewhere.

 

[rushnp774]

thanks very much for doing this work - i'll certainly be looking over it!

No problem! Is there anything else you'd like to learn about? I'm always looking for new ideas for blog posts.

 

[James Pardon]

I'm a big fan of Portraiture, might be of interest :

http://www.imagenomic.com/pt.aspx

 

[rushnp774]

I'm a big fan of Portraiture, might be of interest :

http://www.imagenomic.com/pt.aspx

Heh, I primarily use Portraiture to do my skin smoothing. Shhhh.... I used to do it manually, but Portraiture just makes things so much easier since I tend to edit batches of files at once.