Softening Freckles

Lily

B.R
Staff member




Step 1:
Press Command + J (PC: Ctrl + J) to duplicate the background
layer. The wisdom of this shall be revealed at the end of the tutorial.


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Step 2: Choose Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur. Adjust the Radius slider until
you get a pretty good blur going on. Don't worry if you start to lose
detail; we'll fix that in a minute.


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TIP: If you click and hold within the preview window in the Guassian Blur
dialog box, you can see a before and after shot. You can also move the
image around within the preview window.
Apply a little digital masking tape

Now the entire image is blurry, and that's not what you want. To fix this,
use a layer mask to allow only certain bits of the blurry layer to be visible.

Step 3: Add a layer mask by clicking the circle within a square button at
the bottom of your layers palette.



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Step 4: Fill the layer mask with black. Press D to ensure that your color
chips are set to default (black and white), and press X to swap them out
until black rests haughtily on top. Press Option + Delete to fill the mask
with black (PC: Alt + Delete). (You can also choose Edit > Fill with black if
keyboard shortcuts aren't your cup-o-tea.)


You should notice now that the blurry layer is hidden completely.
Remember, anytime you use a mask, black hides and white reveals. Burn
this into your brain, dear grasshoppers! This is what my layers palette
looks like now:


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Step 5: With a fairly large, soft-edged brush, paint with white those areas
of skin you want to soften, such as the freckly bits. Just press B to select
the Brush tool, and press X to swap out your color chips so that white sits
on top.


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Don't worry if you accidentally blur something by mistake, like an eyebrow.
Just press X to swap color chips again -- so that black is on top -- and
paint the eyebrow blurriness away.


TIP: Press the left bracket key, [, to cycle down in brush size, and the
right bracket key, ], to cycle up.

Step 6: When the mask is complete, lower the opacity of the blurry layer,
until the effect looks real. TIP: If you hover over the word "opacity" in the
layers palette, your cursor turns into a scrub brush, as shown below.
Some folks find that easier to use than the boring old slider bar.



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Do you see the beauty of duplicating the background layer first now? We
protected the original photo from ourselves, *and* built in the ability to
use layer opacity to get just the right effect.


Here's our before and after:


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MAVERICK

Member
well if you find that the image is lot crispier than what you want...toy around with "Blur"
Filters>Blur
 
yalllllllllllllllllla :p

lol me te....pange lain lei......photoimpact use krda c..

lol but photoshop ch kuch samj ni anda......
 
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