Skin Retouching Part 3 - Dodge and Burn HD

How I use 2 curves layers to clean and correct the skin, eliminating the need for cloning and giving a much cleaner and more realistic result than using blur techniques. Whilst this does take longer, the result is far better than that achieved with blur.

I also introduce a temporary black and white layer to make identifying the flaws easier.

Apologies for the poor sound, I need to find a tool to redub these video's, and get a better mic!!

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Tags:

• photoshop
• colour
• correction
• color
• CS4
• skin
• retouching
• beauty
• fashion
• dodge
• burn
• curves

[weirdo033]

also, you said you dont use clone/healing, how do you take out bits that need to be erased? like a bit of clothing for example?

[JasonShootsPeople]

@weirdo033 For both questions, I use the clone stamp tool. it gives me much more control compared to the healing brush. Have a look at the video on safe cloning.

I don't use healing / cloning to address the tonal variations in the flesh, only when absolutely necessary. This video's a follow on from parts 1&2, which cover cloning.

[kenyee88]

In pro retouching, you don't ever soften the skin, even if the lens is too sharp?

Cool technique...I noticed that problem w/ using the healing brush too..

[JasonShootsPeople]

@kenyee88 I'll only soften the skin if it's asked for, and to be honest, that's pretty rare. Most people want to see natural skin structure and texture, but have it blemish free.

[EatY0urTV]

i think using the clone tool is a lot simpler and the result is much more convincing

[k1eee]

a few questions... im aware of the whole dodge and burn things but when you come into like blemishs colored spots do you desaturated or match it with colored curved? and when your dodging and burning theres two circles is that the opacity shortcut?

[MrDonack]

this works better if you use a sola layer rather than black and white. drawing a wiggle line on a curves using the pen tool, it will give you a larger range of gradients, displaying the tonal levels of the skin for you to make a better judgement when it comes to dodge and burn.

[weirdo033]

@JasonShootsPeople cheers!

[weirdo033]

thanks for the tut, I was wondering, what do you do when you have blemishes that have a different colour from the skin? like a red pimple, you can't dodge and burn that out can you

[joesimmons90]

i love your channel name