GIMP 2.10 for Photographers: Remove Blemishes and Fix Skin Complexion

[Music] hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by Davies media design my name is Michael Davies and today I'm going to be showing you guys how to get rid of acne or imperfections in the skin as well as just touch up the overall complexion in a professional manner but also a pretty quick manner so you guys will see here this is the final image that I've produced and if I grab my zoom tool and go ahead and zoom in here you'll see her skin looks great very smooth complexion very even and it doesn't look too artificial sometimes when you're fixing up a complexion you can paint over too much of the realistic elements you know parts of the skin the little subtle wrinkles and just some of the pores that are found in the skin so if i zoom in here you can still see the pores here I mean they're minimized but they're still there so it looks very realistic not too photoshopped not too artificial so this is a great technique and it's pretty easy to do but of course before I get into that I just want to show you guys my website Davy's media designed.com slash tutorials we've got tons of game video and text tutorials on here as well as some merch that actually you guys voted on and so this design is based on your votes you can also check out our you dummy core skin photo editing from beginning of the pro photo retoucher and of course I'll include a link to this in the description as well as links to our social media accounts and any other pertinent links for this tutorial I'll be using a combination of the mouse and the Wacom tablet now if you don't have a Wacom tablet you're not necessarily going to need it for this tutorial you can very easily do all of this with your mouse and I'll go over the techniques for doing it with both the mouse and the welcome but if you do have a Wacom tablet and you're not sure how to install it go ahead and watch the tutorial on our YouTube channel if you haven't already on how to install and feel free of course to follow along using your welcomed tablet if you do have one all right so I'm gonna go ahead and get started here and I'm just starting with my mouse and the first thing I want to do is go ahead and open up this image so I'll go to file open and once I've located the file location for this image I'll go ahead and find that image click on it and click open so I'm going to come over here to our layers panel and go ahead and hit this duplicate icon and this step is kind of optional but this just allows you to basically compare your results directly to the base image or just in case you mess something up can always revert back to that base image once we've done that you can go ahead and hide that base image there and make sure you're on that new layer I just named this the skin complexion image layer by double clicking on it and typing it just deleting that jpg part so now what I'll do is I'll grab my zoom tool and I'm gonna go ahead and zoom in close on one of the areas here of the complexion that has blemishes and what I'm gonna do is go ahead and grab my heal tool and the heal tool basically uses an algorithm to take colors from a source area and then apply those colors to your destination area using the surrounding colors of your destination area so in other words I'll hit ctrl on my keyboard and click in that area where you can see my brush is the source and then I'll come over here to the blemish I want to cover that's the destination and when I click it's pulling colors from the source area but also using an algorithm to take colors from the destination area surrounding that and making that blend in so it creates a really cool effect you don't want to do too large of an area with this tool because you're gonna get something called dobbing which is sort of a fancy name for smearing and that's definitely not something you want so the heal tool is more of like a spot fix where you can go around and fix different blemishes throughout the image like we're doing here you can also use this to fix wrinkles but for today's tutorial I'm just going to use this for fixing blemishes so I can increase or decrease the size of my brush which is going to increase or decrease the source area by using the left and right brackets on my keyboard or you can also come over here and just drag the size slider and what I like to do is hover this over the blemish and just make sure that this is going to be big enough to cover up that blemish and I'm just going to go throughout the image here and click on a source and then click on the destination so click ctrl click on the source and then click on the destination and I'm just going to do this until a majority of the blemishes are covered up here and this doesn't have to be perfect at first because we are going to fix the evenness of the complexion and the next step so just generally try to cover up some of the major blemishes here and then we'll go back and fix the overall skin complexion or the evenness of the skin complexion and I'm using the mouse wheel to just move throughout this image here and find the various blemishes on our subjects face I'll decrease the brush for this one here because this is a pretty small blemish and this one's a larger blemish so I'll go ahead and increase this again and hold control you may need to test out the source location depending on how the final destination looks so if it doesn't quite fit in then you just go ahead and try to find another source location nearby and then try it again and then we've also got an eyelash here and we can use this heel tool to also get rid of that so I'll just click and so I clicked on the control clicked on the source and then clicked on that destination which was the eyelash and now that eyelash has disappeared so go ahead and zoom out here and see how this looks see if we skipped anything major and so I'll just take care of this one here on the neck real quick so go ahead and grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and click to zoom out and now our complexion already looks a lot better and I can go ahead and show that original and then hide the layer we've been working on and you can see here's the before and here is the after it might take a second depending on how fast your computer is and how it large the image is but now you can see that there's already an improvement in her complexion so the next thing I want to do is go ahead and even out the complexion and I don't want to overdo this because like I said before if you use the airbrush tool sometimes you can erase too much of what you know makes a face realistic the pores or just general shadows things like that and they can come off looking to porcelain or to artificial so what I'm gonna do is go ahead and use a different technique here other than the airbrush we are gonna incorporate some airbrush into this technique but not in the way you guys are probably used to and so I'm gonna start by I'll go ahead and hide that original base layer that we had and I will come over here to our skin complexion image and duplicate that layer and you can double click on this and I'll just name this High Pass hit enter alright so once you've done that go over to colors and choose invert and that is going to invert our colors on our image here and this obviously looks completely weird but we're gonna fix this so we're gonna go over to mode and change this to vivid light and this is kind of step two in our process obviously still not quite there but the last thing we're gonna do is go to filters enhance high-pass and you've got some settings here including the standard deviation and the contrast I have my standard deviation set to about 24 and then the contrast I found was better around 1 the lower you have it sort of the less effect it's gonna have on the overall complexion and you'll see as it's rendering here this is a fairly large image that's why it's taking a little while Plus this is the development version of games so it's a little slower than the final stable release version is going to be but you'll see the skin tone is definitely a lot softer the complexion is a lot softer and this is exactly the look we're going for but once you've got the look that you want you can go ahead and click OK and that's going to apply that high-pass filter and so now the skin complexion looks a lot better but the issue is that that high pass filter is creating kind of that glow look throughout the entire image not just the complexion and so it's going over the hair here as well as the eyes and the eyebrows and the lips and all we want this effect to do is beyond the complexion so what we're gonna do to mitigate this is go ahead and click on that high pass layer right click on it and go to add layer mask and under initialize layer mask to select black and that's going to add a entirely hidden layer mask here and this is where my Wacom tablet is going to come in and again you guys can still use the mouse for this but I'm gonna come over to my airbrush tool and make sure my color is set to white and I'm gonna set my opacity to 100 because I want the entire high pass effect to come through on the parts that I'm painting over and then I've got my flow down here set to about 30 and flow is the amount of color that's applied with the airbrush tool and so the higher you set this flow amount the more color is going to be added through the airbrush and I do want a softer overall finished product with the airbrush so that's why I'm keeping the flow a little bit on the low side I'm increasing the size of the brush head and you can either do this on your tablet or using the left or right brackets on your keyboard or you can also use the size slider here and I don't want this to be too large but what I'm doing is I'm painting white directly on this black layer mask so make sure your color here your foreground color is set to white before you begin and I'm just going to go ahead and only paint over the parts of the skin and I'm leaving off the eyes and the eyebrows and the hair and anything that I don't want basically having that high pass filter that we created and I'm just decreasing the brush depending on what area I'm in so this parts a little more narrow as well as above the eyes here so I can just decrease this brush as I work and I can increase it again and you'll see that as I paint over parts of the complexion it really starts to even out here and it looks really good I'll just go ahead and increase that brush again and because I have the opacity of the airbrush tool set to a hundred you can paint over the same parts twice and it's not going to compound the effects or anything if you have a lower opacity set and you paint over the same areas then you might get some areas that come through a little more than you might intend and I'll go ahead and increase and then come down here to the neck as well you all right so our subjects complexion is already looking a lot and if I hit Z on my keyboard or grab the zoom tool from the toolbox and just go ahead and zoom in on the complexion here you'll see the really cool thing about this effect is that you still see the pores and some of the hairs you know the finer hairs and just some other realistic parts of her complexion so the overall result looks a lot better than you know any kind of effect like a hard paint brush where you're gonna accidentally erase all of those features so I'll go ahead and unhide that original image and then hide those two layers we've been working on with the effects and you can see here is the image before we apply to anything you've got a lot of blemishes and an eye last year and then here's after we applied so all those blemishes are gone the skin tone looks a lot more even so it's a great final result and it's a technique that really doesn't take that much time to accomplish so that's it for this tutorial if you liked it please subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash Davies media design you can also visit our website at Davies media design.com slash tutorials and you can enroll in our udemy course skin photo editing from beginner to pro photo retoucher and of course I'll include a link to that and all links from this tutorial in the description so thanks for watching and we'll see you next time you

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Length: 12min 28sec (748 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 27 2018