From the course: Photoshop Retouching: Beauty Portraits

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Cleaning up blemishes with the Clone Stamp tool

Cleaning up blemishes with the Clone Stamp tool - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop Retouching: Beauty Portraits

Cleaning up blemishes with the Clone Stamp tool

Now we are going to start on removing blemishes and inconsistencies throughout the skin. Using the same idea as removing the hairs, we will be adjusting our clone stamp to fit with the texture and softness, or the more in focused areas of the skin. So I am going to get a nice small little clone stamp, let's turn of Transfer, and let's bring the hardness up, and if you look at the edge of the brush right here as I crank it up and down, you can kind of visually figure out how hard you need it to be. This is going to be even smaller, and let's just really zoom in, even more than we did for the hair, and let's get in there and let's really go to town on the skin. You could see how using the harder edge brush right here makes sense, as opposed to a softer, because it's distributing the pixels in a way that makes it feel a bit more natural. And that's why it's always important to understand your tools and how they work and to understand when to use certain tools, when not to use certain…

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