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Ridding Your Photos of Wrinkles and Blemishes
The tools you use most when performing plastic surgery include the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools. Both of these tools copy areas using cloning, but the Healing Brush tool is the Clone Stamp tool’s smarter cousin. While the Clone Stamp tool copies the hue and brightness of an area, the Healing Brush tool also copies the texture of an area, which is particularly important when dealing with skin. Copying skin texture helps the cloned areas blend in more seamlessly.Another handy Photoshop feature is the Dust & Scratches filter. Use this filter when you want to even out skin texture. If the subjects in your photograph have some irregularities or pitting on their cheeks or chin, this filter can quickly smooth things out.My likely candidate for wrinkle and blemish removal is the woman shown in Figure 31-1. As you can see, she has a few wrinkles around the eyes, some slight blemishes on her nose, and some skin texture problems that look like old pitting scars from acne. With Photoshop, the Clone Stamp tool, Healing Brush, and the Dust & Scratches filter, I can erase a few years in a few minutes.
Figure 31-1: Even though she doesn’t know it, this woman is going to have her wrinkles and blemishes removed and her skin texture smoothed out.
The real trick when retouching a photograph is to use a different layer for each type of retouching activity, such as removing blemishes, removing wrinkles, and defining eyes. That way, you never touch the original photograph and if you go a little too far with the retouching or don’t like something you do, you can always start over.Instead of creating one long list of steps covering blemish and wrinkle removal, and skin smoothing, I’ve divided the directions into the three sets so that you can find what you need more easily.To remove blemishes, follow these steps:
Open the photograph you want to retouch.If you need to scan the photograph and import it into Photoshop, take a look at Technique 10. The photograph I’m using in this example is shown in Figure 31-1.
Select the layer containing the photograph if it isn’t already active.
Click the Create New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette.A new, empty layer appears above the photograph. This is the layer you are going to use to remove blemishes, so rename the layer something appropriate such as Blemish Removal.
Select the Clone Stamp tool from the Toolbox.
Use the Options bar to select the Clone Stamp tool settings.Select Normal blending mode using the Mode drop-down list, set Opacity to 75%, uncheck Aligned, and check Use All Layers.
Select a small, soft brush using the Brush Preset picker.For this example, I used a 5 pixel diameter brush with a 0% Hardness setting.
Hold down the Alt/Option key and select a clone source near the blemish.
Stroke over the blemish to remove it.As shown in Figure 31-2, the Clone Stamp tool removed the dark spots and blemishes from her cheek, chin, and nose.
Figure 31-2: The Clone Stamp tool works really well for removing spots and blemishes.
Follow these steps to remove wrinkles:
Open the photograph you want to retouch.If you need to scan the photograph and import it into Photoshop, take a look at Technique 10. The photograph I’m using in this example is shown in Figure 31-2.
Select the layer containing the photograph if it isn’t already active.
Click the Create New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette.A new, empty layer appears above the photograph. This is the layer that you use to remove blemishes, so rename the layer something appropriate such as Wrinkle Removal.
Select the Healing Brush tool from the Toolbox.
Use the Options bar to select the Healing Brush settings.Select the Replace blending mode using the Mode drop-down list, set Source to Sampled, uncheck Aligned, and check Use All Layers.If you don’t want some layers in the image included in the wrinkle removal, click the eye icon to the left of each layer in the Layers palette to hide them.
Select a small, soft brush using the Brush Preset picker.For this example, I used a 9 pixel diameter brush with a 10% Hardness setting.
Hold down the Alt/Option key and select a clone source near the wrinkles.
Use small strokes to remove the wrinkles.Be careful not to overdo it. You want to remove some wrinkles but not all the character in the person’s face. Also, because you want to match skin tone and texture as much as possible, resample the clone source frequently (see Step 7).Figure 31-3 shows the example photograph minus a few of the wrinkles originally shown in Figure 31-2.
Figure 31-3: The Healing Brush makes wrinkle removal pretty easy.
To smooth out skin texture, follow these steps:
Open the photograph you want to retouch.If you need to scan the photograph and import it into Photoshop, take a look at Technique 10. The photograph I’m using in this example is shown in Figure 31-3.
Select the layer containing the photograph if it isn’t already active.
Choose Filter>Noise>Dust & Scratches.This filter is very powerful, so small changes in the Radius setting can make for big results. For my example, I slightly smoothed the woman’s skin by using a Radius setting of 2 and a Threshold setting of 1. That’s all it took to smooth the skin areas along her cheeks and chin, as shown in Figure 31-4.
Figure 31-4: The Dust & Scratches filter is great for smoothing skin texture.
