High-End Skin Softening in 1 Minute or Less in Photoshop

in this video we can learn how to make your skin smooth with the skin texture still intact ready for this in 1 minute or less also at the end of the video I'm going to show you how to do the same thing in 30 seconds or less see guys this video is really really special if you have not watched any other videos of mine that's okay but make sure you watch this one so stay tuned [Music] alright straight up so let's jump straight into it so the first thing that you need to do make a duplicate of the background layer to do that ctrl J a Comanche if you using a Mac and then invert it ctrl I command I if you are using a Mac and then now I know this looks like a scene from a horror movie but wait it gets better change the blend mode from normal to vivid like vivid light now this makes things much more worse I know but let's look at better okay go to filter other high pass and set the value to 24 24 is set that's fine click OK now go to filter blur Gaussian blur now this is gonna create a magic let's zoom in quite a bit and keep the value around 3 & 4 keep the value around such a number which accentuates the pores in the skin and the skin texture as general so too much of it is not good that also introduces a lot of wrinkles we don't want too much of this I think in this case 4 will work just fine keep it for click ok now this is prepared the skin is smooth but the problem is the skin smoothing is being applied to all over the image also applies on the hair applies on the clothes supplies on the eyes it doesn't look right does it so now all you need to do press and hold alt or option and create a mask click on this one this creates a negative mask for it now select the brush make sure the foreground color is white if it's not press D and then just start painting over it you can keep the floor art at around 40 50 whatever I would keep hundred to make the work a little faster and there you go start painting over the skin and there you have it don't paint over the areas that are supposed to be sharp like the eyes like the beneath of the nostrils okay don't paint over those areas just paint over the areas that are supposed to be soft okay don't paint over the highlights suppose there's a highlight here don't paint over it that takes away the natural effect from there but you can paint over it just a little bit stay away from the lips stay away from these highlights don't paint over them okay just I'm doing a very slow job you can do it fast there you go now if you have accidentally painted some extra areas you can always press X this switch is the foreground of the background color makes it black and then you can paint in the areas that you would like the sharpness back so we don't want sharpness in this area and these areas okay beneath the eyebrows so we would paint these areas with white there you go this that's ping tool here now how much time did it take you tell me if you do this I just explained it to you but if you do this this will take just a minute and a half or a minute okay so let's look at the before and after so this is the before this is the after makes loads of difference so you can always go ahead and decrease the opacity if you want I think for this in this case 75 is good you don't want to make her look young again okay so this is the before this is the after of course it shows a little bit of eyebags so you can go ahead and remove the eye bags before doing this anything that you want to do blemish removal or eye bags remover or mole removal anything that you want to do do it before doing the skin smoothing because you don't want to apply any kind of skin smoothing above the blemishes because this kind of start looking now let's learn how to do the same thing in 30 seconds or less and for that we have to create an action let's delete this and now go to Windows and actions now this opens up the actions dialog box and what the actions dialog box does is that it records your actions and when you play it later it just repeats those actions so now all you need to do you need to do all the steps again but record it so click on this new action and name it skin smooth the name quick okay set default action is fine you can set the groups you can set the function key for it if you want to set a function key for example f1 f2 f3 you can set that key for it when you press that key automatically the skin will be smooth int okay click record now this is recording now what we did created a duplicate okay control I change the blend mode to what ribbet light and then filter other high pass the value is 24 okay and filter blur Gaussian blur the value is 4 now it depends it usually stays in or around 3 or 4 so you can make two actions 1 for 4 or 1 for 3 depending upon the size of the portrait ok so in this case I would set foreign this works for most of my images and click OK and then we have to create a negative mask press and hold alt or option + click on it and select a brush and make sure that the foreground color is white now stop the recording click on this this stops the recording okay now this is saved now all you need to do let's delete it let's zoom out and this time all you need to do make sure the background layer is selected it's already selected by default and click on this skin smoothing quick which we just created ok and play it and it will do that automatically up until the point where we just have to paint now it has selected the brush for you it has selected the foreground color for you you just have to paint now ok and there you have it if you can paint in 15 seconds you can do that in 15 seconds I can paint in 15 really quickly okay there you go it's pretty much done not so pretty nicely our accurately but that's done how much time does it did it take 15 seconds 20 seconds I don't know how much time does it take but it gives you a really fantastic result in in no time so that's pretty much it for this video I hope you liked it and if you did make sure to give us a like and also don't forget to subscribe and not just subscribe click on that Bell button so that you don't miss anything I'll see you guys my next one till then stay tuned and make sure that you keep creating [Music]

Channel: PiXimperfect

Views: 4,410,175

Keywords: piximperfect, smooth skin photoshop, skin retouching, retouch skin, airbrush skin, skin texture, skin smoothing, frequency separation, photoshop tutorial, retouch, photoshop, portrait retouching, wrinkle, blemishes, makeup, fashion photography, portrait photograhy, airbrushing, head shot, blend mode, tutorial, glamor, skin

Id: 89AowdLeZUA

Length: 7min 38sec (458 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 04 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/retoucherizer]

Don't do this

[u/WickedlNl]

High end skin in 1 minute 🤣. Theres a reason this takes several hours per photo and no filter to date could speed this up. Avoid!

This unibrow guy is a joke, its tutorials for girls who want the power of instagram but on their computer. Also, any tutorial that tells you for whatever reason that you need to put exact values/numbers...its a joke. You cant apply the same setting to all photos as they are shot different lighting, different angles, different skin color, different skin quality etc.