 Hey everybody it's Greg back to here and in this video I'm going to show you how to get the high end skin retouching look in less than a minute. All right let's get started. All right so here we are in Adobe Photoshop and we're on the background layer so we want to duplicate this layer so there's a couple ways to do that you can right click on this layer and you could say duplicate layer if you're on a Mac we'll just just leave it like that but if you're on a Mac you could say Command J not sure what it is on the PC. All right let's get started so we're on the background copy we made a duplicate we're going to go up to filter in a second so the first thing we want to do is hit command i and you can see it looks a little weird we're going to go up to filter we're going to go to other we're going to go to high pass and you can use a couple different ratios here you can use a radius of anywhere from 23 to 25 I'm going to pick a radius of 24 and again you can see that that looks a little bit weird so what we're going to do is we're going to come up here and we're going to choose vivid light and then you can see it changes a little bit there now one more thing we want to do go up to filter blur Gaussian blur and again you can play with this radius a bit between three to five I'm just going to go with a radius of four so it's not looking the greatest right now so what we're going to do is we're going to put a mask over this layer so you can hit the option or the alt key in the PC come down here at the bottom where you see this little square with a circle in it to a rectangle click there now we've created a mask so we've masked that whole layer and if you just want to change this again you can click command i and you can see what it looks like so one thing I want you to pay attention to when I zoom in is around the areas of the lips and the nose you can see there's a really unflattering highlights so try to avoid these areas when I show you what we're going to do next so command i again on that mask to get rid of it so what we want to do is we just want to paint on areas of the skin to give it a bit of a softer look so we're going to use the brush B is the shortcut for the brush make sure you're on white in your foreground and your left you can hit the D key to get white and black and X to toggle back and forth so we're on white and for your brush settings opacity 100 flow above 50 should be good and then you want to make sure you have a soft brush so one way is control option you can drag left and right you could see your brush goes from smaller to bigger also if you go up or down you can see that changes so we want a soft brush and we can also use our bracket keys to to do that all right so now we just want to paint the areas of the skin to give it a bit of a smoother look so I'm going to zoom in so you can see this a little bit better and we'll do a before and after in a second here so all they have to do is just lightly brush over these areas avoiding those areas we talked about around the nose and around the lips and I'll just make my brush a little smaller for some of these areas and like I said we'll just do this really quick and then I'll show you a little bit before and after so I'm just trying to avoid those areas now there's lots of different ways to retouch skin and if you have more time you can get into frequency separation I have a video about that on my channel as well but right now we're just doing a quick little skin retouch here in this video just one technique of of many different techniques that you can use and we're just going to paint around the face you can do this on the whole body if you wish I just want to give you an idea of what this looks like really quickly and so you want to avoid the lips the nostrils that area on the nose the eyes you want to avoid those areas you want certain areas to remain sharp so I'm just going to zoom in so I can do a little bit of a better job here also we can look at our mask and see what that looks like in a second so I'll show you how to do that as well and this doesn't work perfect in all areas so you may want to look at the before and after and if you see an area that doesn't look as good you can always just back that off by painting black back on that mask so let's just have a look at the mask here see what we see so you can see there's certain areas here that I missed so you can go over this on the mask and just make sure that it's all even so that's all you have to do there so again option on that mask and it comes back now let's do the before and after and see if there's any areas that got worse so I could see at the bottom of her chin there we probably don't need that there so I'm going to click on the mask and hit the x key and on the black and I'm just going to take that off the bottom of her chin there but overall if we just zoom in and we look at the skin and we click on and off here you could see that it's smoothed out the skin now we might have gone a little too far so this is on its own layer so we could take the opacity slider just click over the opacity and slide that down to say let's go to 50 percent we'll compare that so toggling that on and off toggling it on and off and so that's one way to do this so let me just recap how we do that so get rid of that layer we want to create a new layer so I'm just going to zoom out here so command j to create a duplicate layer also you can right click and create duplicate layer so we have another way of doing that so once you have that layer command i to invert that layer then come up to filter go other high pass in anywhere I'd say about 22 to 25 I just picked a 24 radius there you can experiment with that not looking the greatest right there so you take the blend mode and go to vivid I hit the wrong one vivid light so now we've put the high pass on we've changed it to vivid light one last step we're going to go filter blur Gaussian blur and you can do about a three to five radius I'm going to go with a four and then we're going to create a mask so option click and we have a mask right there and then all we have to do is hit the B key for our brush we could even pick a flow of 100 if we want it to so opacity 100 flow 100 make sure you're on white so X make sure white is on the foreground and then like I said just brush areas of the skin and then keep in mind that you can adjust the opacity of this layer so you could see how quickly this is once you know how to create this duplicate it's pretty easy and then we could just paint over and like I said this is just one way of doing some skin retouching if you have more time you can do frequency separation and again like I said avoid certain areas like the nostrils the edge of the nose the lips the eyes you just want it in certain parts of the skin but it see it doesn't look good there so X and we could take it away right there so it's not going to work in every area but for the most part it does give you a smoother look and then we could take that down let's say to 60 percent and we could toggle that on and off so that's before I'll let you zoom I'll zoom in here so you can see that so this is before and this is after at 60 percent if you find that's too much just play with the opacity you could take it down to 40 you can take it down to 30 as much as you feel as necessary so that it looks natural but that you've just done a little skin retouching so that's less than a minute without any kind of plugins and it's that 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