Improving Skin in Photoshop

This is a skin improvement tutorial but I do not by any means try to make the person prettier. It's just a plain request that I got from a person who wanted to learn how to make skin like people in magazines.
If you have any other requests or questions, feel free to comment or give me a message.

The credits of the photo goes to:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1000504

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Improving
• tutorial
• skin
• in
• photoshop
• photo
• celeberty

[TaroCoco]

is it PTS cs3?

[xLukinx]

@TaroCoco Yes it is. Photoshop CS3 Extended Edition.

[spagget]

do you think BLUR tool will gonna help?

than 3:54 ?

[xLukinx]

@spagget It will probably work to a certain level. One thing that will be bad with the blur tool is that you can't edit where you want it to be afterward, since it wont be using a layer mask. Also you can't lower the opacity later either.

[spagget]

@xLukinx Thanks!!! gonna replay your video and i'll try it in photoshop! :D

[xLukinx]

@spagget No problem! :)

[y07y]

Trust me, magazines don't do it like that, professional magazines that is.

[xLukinx]

@annemarit21 You should really read the description.. "This is a skin improvement tutorial but I do not by any means try to make the person prettier. It's just a plain request that I got from a person who wanted to learn how to make skin like people in magazines.", What I am doing is making her like the people in the magazines. The reason why I took this picture is because it was the only decent picture I could get without breaking the copyright laws.

[annemarit21]

so you think this is "improving" her skin? she has such pretty freckles, you ruine the picture by making her look like a barbiedoll..

[xosaksasluv4evaxo]

haha thanks! :)

[xLukinx]

@xosaksasluv4evaxo Oh, sorry, forgot about that, first you do the mask, press the mask "layer", then you press "Ctrl+I", it will invert the image, in this case, white to black. Or you can just fill it in with a Brush or the Paint Bucket Tool.