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Working on skin texture

Working on skin texture - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working on skin texture

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Earlier in this course I photographed Sam. He and I talked about his concerns with his skin and also his weight. When I photographed him I adjusted the lights and his poses to take care of his weight, and then I also had him apply makeup to smooth out the color of his skin. Now I'm going to show you the next step in that process. I do as much work as possible in Lightroom and then I will export to Photoshop to finish up. I go into Develop, because Develop has many more adjustments that I can use, in particular is the Spot Healing tool. I will put it on Heal and adjust Sam so I can see what I'm doing. I'm going to tackle some of the dark areas here. I start at the bottom, because I want to create an area of clean skin. I'm going to reduce my brush size down by doing a left bracket, and I'm going to just go in and hit some of those dark spots. Now Lightroom automatically samples for you, but often I don't like where it chooses. So I just make sure that it's choosing the right area for…

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