 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to soften the look of skin or even make it look almost like it's glowish. That angelic, cherubic, soft, glowy look that you see, especially in a lot of magazine covers and stuff like that. Well, there is some voodoo going on, but it's not too hard to do once you get the hang of it. So let's dig in and get going. I've got an attractive girl here in the previous video. Pardon me, I showed you how to remove some of the acne and blemishes if that was something that you'd want to do. But in this one, I'm going to make her skin really soft. Come on, Curtis, use your words. All right, rock and roll. Let's go load up an image. Any image will do if it has a higher contrast value. Great, but this is an image that I'm using. And then the first step, you want to take the image. You want to right-click on it and you want to convert it to a smart object. Now, once it becomes a smart object, and you'll know it's a smart object because you'll see the little icon in the bottom right of the image there. You want to head up to the top. We're going to go to Filter. And now, and here's the part where not a lot of people know, is you want to go into Camera Raw Filter. So I'm going to left-click on Camera Raw Filter. And Presto, it opens up. Now, I recommend that you zoom in pretty tight just because you want to see what you're doing. So what do we have? 154 here. So let's go to 200%. Okay, that should do the trick. Even, yeah, you know what? Let's go in. Yeah, maybe that's too much. What do you think? 200? Okay, yeah, 200%. And basically what we want to do is we want to adjust the clarity. This is the magic for soft skin versus the whole high-fi, sharp contrast look. So take the clarity and drop it way down. And I'll show you. Let's go all the way to minus 100. So that is ultra soft. Like, she doesn't even look like a real person, right? And it's also affecting everything, including your eyes and her lips, which is maybe something we don't want. But, and you can go all the way to the top right here to plus 100, and it's, you know, it's way in focus. So let's drop it down to we want to make it soft. So let's, let's, let's go a little over the top. Let's go to like minus 75 in this one. Sure. This is extremely soft. And then you're going to hit OK. And you'll notice that it's created a smart filter. And if we turn it on and off, this is the original image. This is the new image. Now, this is not obviously the final product. And this is where I got stuck a lot of the time is I didn't, you know, I'm like, hey, this is what I want. But the eyes don't look right. And maybe I don't like the mouth that way. So what you want to do is you want to click on the smart filter here and we want to fill it with black. And I'm going to show you why. So there are a couple of ways to do it. The way I recommend is command or control delete. That fills it with black command delete. If you're on a Mac control delete, if you're on a PC. So there we filled it with black. OK, we're on our way. The next step is we want to paint on top of this. So we're basically going to paint a mask on her. But we're going to avoid the areas that we don't want it to apply to. So like the hair and the eyes and the mouth, perhaps. So let's go ahead now and we're going to hit B for brush. And this selects our brush tool. Now, I've got it set to a large brush and a high opacity. That is generally not what you want because this is kind of like, you know, we're doing some, you know, in depth, pretty, you know, detailed touch up work. So I'm going to reduce the size of my brush to about this size because I'm going to work on the forehead at the beginning. And I'm also going to reduce the opacity in this case to normally I go down to 20% just and do it multiple times. But because that'll take a little while and I just want to demonstrate the technique. I'm going to drop it down to 50%. And now watch, I'm going to paint over like her forehead and between her eyes. And we're going to see how this works. So slowly, but surely you'll see as I go over top of it, we're sort of starting adding. We're adding in a little bit more and more of that soft look. And you know, you can you can tell that it's working because you'll see over here in the in the smart filters. You're going to see that the white we are painting on this mask right here. So I am slowly went a little too far there. I'm going over top of the parts that I want to to soften up. And again, this is not something that I would release necessarily. This is just to demonstrate the technique. If I was doing this really, really for like a magazine cover or like a high end blog post, I would go way in deep like this. I would have a small brush and you would see me do, you know, nice and slow bit by bit. But again, guys, I will just keep doing this a little bit more so you can see what we got here. We are adding in the soft look that we're going for around the chin. And you'll see it over here again in the mask. So if we were to turn the mask off, this is the original. This is where we are right now. Now, obviously, we still got a little more work to do. There's a little bit of spots in here or on this left cheek. But this technique is how you soften skin inside Adobe Photoshop. And you can do it very, very easily. It's a very, very cool technique. And it also gets rid of a lot of the blemishes as you can see here too. Now, while I got you here, I guess I'll just go quickly here and do one more thing. I'm going to use the spot healing brush. I'm going to get rid of like that little blemish there. And maybe, you know what, that's about it. You know, maybe this one here, I'll just kind of heal it up a bit. But again, that's all there is to it, guys, to softening skin inside Photoshop. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. I got a lot more stuff coming up. Thanks for watching.