This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Cleaning Up Skin
Faces with several blemishes are some of the more difficult images to edit. In this image of my niece, I was able to get rid of the blemishes under her chin and make it blend well with the rest of her face by using Perfect Portrait.
Step 1
I started off with my image inside of Perfect Portrait. The software immediately found the girl’s face, so I clicked once inside the green square to start my edits and Perfect Portrait immediately located the eyes and mouth.
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Step 2
The controls over the eyes and mouth needed some adjustment, so I fixed them by clicking on the points and dragging them to the correct spots. I also used the brush to make certain that the skin on the face was fully showing, especially the areas where the blemishes were most severe.
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Step 3
Then I went over to the Effects tab on the left and applied the Heavy Retouch effect from inside the Children category. This did a good job of smoothing away most of the blemishes on the chin.
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Step 4
To continue the retouch process, I selected the Retouch brush from the tool-well. Then I set the Size to 125, the Feather to 25, and the Opacity to 50%, and clicked several times in the image over the areas where the blemishes were most severe. I did this until I removed the majority of the blemishes while keeping the skin tone and texture intact.
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Step 5
Next I directed my attention to the Mouth & Eyes pane on the right side of the screen. Since her eyes are squinting and not very visible, I decided to move both sliders to 0. Then I increased the Whitening slider for the Mouth to 85.
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Step 6
The last step was to apply the effect. When I preview the before and after images, I can tell that the blemishes have faded away nicely without a loss of detail in the skin.
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