For this you need Photoshop CS to CS4. (Im used CS4 for this)

I will show you how you can archiev the look you find on magazines on celebs, smooth even skins with no blemish. This tutorial is Intermediate users. Some images can be harder to do than other. If you're new to photoshop or not used to photoshop, get michaels photoshop crash course!

You will need lots of free time and lots of experience with different tools (can be learned from michaels video)

(I didn't add sharpening technique but it was done on final image)

What's inside

- Blemish removal
- Skin evening (Same smoothness as you find on magazines)
- Color correction
- Color improvements
- Sharpening


1. Begin with finding a large resolution images or from your CF, it's best to use CR2 (raw files) to contain images color informations.
Here I choose image from internet


Make copy of the background, to have two copies of the image. Begin to remove larger of blemish of the person using Healing Brush Tool (J) use a decent size brush that almost fit to the blemish and grab a sample and then heal it. Compare to the first image everything while you do this, hold ALT key and press the eye in layer palett on the background and you will see before and after to make sure it doesn't leave healing trace. I put the retouched image into a map, it makes me easier to know what is what)


2. Make copy of the image you have just retouched (make 2 copies) Go to curves and do following. You will get overexposed image and underexposed images. Now add vector mask to both of your images and fill with black color (This will hide the effect)



3. Make two new layers and fill it with black. Change first image blending mode to soft light and second layer to color


4. Zoom it at 400% or more to see much closer and find area that is not even, It's black areas (look at the image) and grab Brush Tool (B) set opacity to 8%-10% and flow 20% and start brushing easy on black areas. This takes every long time. This take very long time to master and takes long time (can take hours). You can turn black and white off to see result. This make you to see more of the black areas sometimes it's better to turn off or on.


5. After you're done you should have very even and smooth skin. Now flatten image, change to lab color and go to curves. Go to A and B channels to add more colors using the slider upper corner and down corner. Change back to RGB.

Now duplicate background and go to curves, do something similar.


Duplicated that layer you've just changed curves. Go to Image>Adjustment>Channel Mixer and change to red filter. Change blending mode to soft light and lower opacity.

6. Final result!




See more result at my website http://photo.piyada.net/