Photoshop Tutorial: Softening Skin

[reinoheya]

wow people are really rude arnt they. :l

[TheJhonny24]

thank you so much...

[nina951]

DUDE!! OMG!! like this HELPED so much! thanks man! :)

[PrincessTianna95]

Thank you soo much! :)

[joshme17]

Hey haters I know this isn't a great tutorial, it was one of my first, and the picture is honestly a horrible picture of me, which is why I chose it. Haha. Check out some of my newer tuts though, they're much better. Even though this video always receives more views for some reason.

[Mikencz]

is it you becouse you are ugly xD

[Liiimes]

Buy a mac, lol ;)

[jmodel11]

There is another way to to this wit a mask! this 1 is good also

[felixcock]

hey man,wheres the guy liner?

[cardcaptorsakura2007]

O.o How come you didnt use blur tool??? ...erase tool will only erase the background =/

[CamillaSlot]

blow your nose.

[ungriANO]

pathetic.

[zanyte]

OMG thank you soooooo much :D I've been looking for a simple way to do this for ages

[nadleznasam]

my clone stamp tool is just not working :-(

[Sarunikss]

lol at photo

[joshme17]

@Sarunikss Hahaha! Yeah. Its not everyday you see a picture of a guy in a skin softening video. But hey, guys can use that too!

[Sarunikss]

@joshme17 real men don't give a damn :D

[StarishaStewart]

i TRiED THiS AND B0TH LAYERS ENDED UP BLURRiNG iNSTEAD 0F JUST 0NE...WHAT DiD i D0 WR0NG?

[hamzhein]

thanx so much,,,,,,

[nightliferevolution]

try using a smaller healing brush and zoom =)

[lilyoshidude]

<__< Don't listen to the damned idiots who say you have no idea what you're talking about. I for one, learned a lot from this video and will keep that in mind next time I use Photoshop! =D

[kelly394]

i like it your really good =3 what photoshop is this?

[joshme17]

Photoshop Elements 5. It has mostly the same features as CS3 but lacks some advanced layer settings and other features. But I haven't come across anything I really need to do that I can't do with photoshop elements. It is MUCH cheaper, you get a lot more for your money.

[kelly394]

oh thanks! :D

[TheTruth8906]

If you wanted to do something really professional with a picture, you would find some troubles without having the full version of Photoshop. But i agree, Elements would work fine for something like this.

[joshme17]

I agree with you on that now. I have CS now. I made this video at least a year ago. But for something basic like demonstrated in the video, and the average user, its a good version of photoshop.

[SuperStarsNStripes]

@joshme17 Agreed. PSE is the way to go unless someone needs really top level professional abilities in a program. I still have not used anything in Photoshop that wasn't in PSE.

[Cubiche15]

Photoshop SC -7. 1947.

[bebe03]

wow! This seems so easy to do and it makes such a subtle yet very important difference in pictures.. no one will be like "looks shopped" everyone will be like.."great skin" haha thanks!! <3

[kiwidrummer]

Thats awesome dude. Thanks for that. The blur technique works brilliantly.

Cheers

[zoonybabe]

ohhh wow!! this is wayyy helpful!! thanks!! this is the only video that i felt i learned the best!!

[Poopoos124]

cough.

[knoose]

Most everything your doing is a

poor workflow unfortunately and non professional.

I only complain because if your going to

"highly recommend" techniques that are of

such poor quality when there are so many

videos on youtube that you think you would

educating yourself on before educating others,

its a question of why bother.

[joshme17]

Hey, I'm no pro, but apparently I'm helping some people out, judging from the 4 1/2 star rating and the many positive comments...

"this is like 1 of the best tutoirals i have seen "

"wow the first video i could actually follow thx u :D"

"i'll use his for my school picture! :) thanks"

"amazing tutorial man. 5/5 "

"Thank you very much! :D

Your Tutorial has helped ALOT!"

Out of the 20 comments, amazingly yours are the only that are negative..hmmm

[knoose]

Im not being negative, but just respect photoshop and photo editing too much to think its ok to train people in in proper technique. I respect your videos, tho i dont respect why you dont train yourself further before teaching others. Dragging the heal brush across the skin to patch a large area at once is an unthinkable technique. PS> Out of 20 comments, im the only professional...

[joshme17]

After I use the healing brush over that huge area i undo it because i say it doesn't look good, to show what NOT to do.

I'm not trying to teach professionals, I'm trying to teach newbies.

[LYSS4x26]

when i try to do the spot healing brush tool, it doesn't work.

like where the brush ends, it ends up rainbow?

and then i can't get rid of it, at least i don't know how to get rid of it.

PLEEEEEASE help /:

[joshme17]

Hi, you can have trouble with the spot healing brush depending on your background, and the surroundings of the area you are correcting. If this happens you can undo it by pressing ctrl+z, or ctrl+alt+z depending on your version on photoshop. When you have trouble with the spot healing brush, its best to use the clone brush as described in the video.

[TimeStartToPass]

i dont get it the last part (eraser).

mine like nothing change

[joshme17]

Double check and make sure you have the right layer selected.

[ehlaipuccini]

why don't you just use the BLUR tool instead of duplicating the original layer to soften the skin?

[joshme17]

I prefer this way, is gives you more control.

[knoose]

Control of what?

Every heard of masks?

[joshme17]

There are many ways to do this. This is just one of many ways, if you prefer to do it a different way thats alright with me.

[yodeler111]

i'll use his for my school picture! :) thanks

[kara00700]

Thank you very much! :D

Your Tutorial has helped ALOT!

Now if only we could make it that easy in real life! XD

[joshme17]

haha, yeah, I wish.

[Eslingca]

Honestly. I wish you people read off a script or something because it is so annoying to here "so what we're going to do... so what we're going to do...." it just makes it so aggrivating.

[joshme17]

Sorry bout that, I didn't even notice I kept saying that when I was making the video. I'll work on using better speech on my next video.

[FreakiBabiieh13]

that is soo guuud -.-

i will !

but the boy is not beautiful.

Yes i come from german i can not speac

of englisch ^^

[joshme17]

haha, I am the boy in the picture. I am more of a Photographer and Photoshopper than a model.

[loofa17]

Don't worry about it Josh, this was a video on skin softening, not cover pictures of magazines.

And I didn't find your speech very distracting honestly. I didn't even notice that you said , "so here's what we're gonna do" until after I read the comments.

Good video, 5/5

[joshme17]

Thank you.

[510682]

ware do you get photoshop without paying 1000 dollars?

[frankie519]

amazing tutorial man. 5/5

[knoose]

lol, are you serious?

[LevarThomas]

Awesome tutorial. For a do-it-yourself music artist, this comes in handy! Thanks

[11031992pty]

great!

[FluffyProductions101]

this is like 1 of the best tutoirals i have seen

[joshme17]

Thanks, glad I could help. :D

[bingbangtube]

COOOOOOL

[Wehoo92]

omg this is cool :)