How To Remove Skin Blemishes In Photoshop

Remove Acne And Skin Blemishes In Photoshop - Portrait Retouching

In portraits, acne, scars and pimples etc. are too common. Chances are minimal that you may need to retain them. In case you want to remove it, there are many professional companies offering portrait retouching services that will help you in getting the job done.

It is advised to avoid blemishes using some of the amazing camera techniques with smart adjustments in lighting, however there might be discrepancies creeping. Advanced image editing tools help in creating perfect pictures.

Two popular blemish removal techniques in Photoshop – healing and cloning are used for removal of blemishes. Sometimes, a blend of both is used.

Healing

Professionals engaged in the photo post processing usually use this tool which is found in all the image editing software programs. Flaws can be easily fixed using this amazing tool. The tool blends a blemish with any texture which you select from somewhere else in your snap. The brightness and color values of the concerned texture is picked up and blended with the actual blemish that needs to be removed. The texture chosen is not simply pasted directly on the area with issue; it’s merged with the neighboring pixels. Thus, an unnoticeable and seamless outcome is obtained. Always remember that diverse areas of a human face differ significantly. The skin of the forehead and that of areas around the eyes vary considerably in regard of texture and color. So, replacement textures should be chosen from the nearest possible area to the blemishes. The tool is considered as perfect owing to its subtlety, not just for scares and pimples but even for prevalent features such as wrinkles.

Cloning

Cloning is a technique by which you can clone specific parts of a photo. Cloning tool is a common inclusion in photo editing software these days. Contrary to the healing tool, cloning tool just copies and pastes the selected area of concerned portrait on the problem area. This tool is highly effective and used by companies availing professional photo retouching services for minor fixes like pimples; it also works well on larger areas where details are minimum. However, healing tool performs better in case if more intricacies are involved. When the cloned area merge with underlying image, lines will be seen at the edges. This issue can be minimized to certain extent with the help of a soft brush; it will produce some clouding between the areas.

Cloning and healing together

Every skin is different; every model is different. Hence, the process involved in removing of blemishes and acne from an image must be customized. There’s no one-size-fits-all treatment when making such precise edits. Hope this blog has been able to convey the same in this quick tutorial.

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How to Remove Acne in Photoshop

Remove Acne in Photoshop

Anyone who has gone through puberty knows that acne can ruin a photo. Don’t let those spots get you down, in this episode we show you how to remove acne in Photoshop.

The key to removing acne in Photoshop is to divide the process into two steps. The first step is to get rid of redness and the second step is to remove the blemishes.

How to Remove Redness in Photoshop

Half of the battle is removing the redness around acne and it can be difficult if you don’t use the right Tools. In this episode we show you how to use Hue/Saturation to target specific areas of red and alter them so they look like normal skin tone.

Removing Acne Blemishes

After removing the color it is time to remove the blemishes. Adobe has done a great job with the Spot Healing Brush in recent versions of Photoshop (CS6, CC, CC2014). It makes removing blemishes very easy as long as you check a few settings. Be sure to select “Content Aware” and “Sample All Layers” so you can use this tool on a new layer and not destroy your original layer.

Simply paint over the blemishes to remove them. We suggest removing small spots first and then moving to the larger areas. To finish off the job, zoom out and paint larger areas. This will help to even out uneven Skin tones.

Adding Red Back to Skin

In the first step we removed all the red from the skin. This is a necessary step when getting rid of acne but you will want to add a bit of red back to the skin to make it look more realistic. The difference is that the original red was blotchy and very saturated. This red will be softer and more subtle.

Choose the red color from the lips and paint over the subject’s face, then change the layer blend mode to Soft Light and reduce the opacity to 20%-50% or until the skin looks natural.

Using Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CC

Ctrl-Alt-drag/Cmd-Option-drag outward from the center of a blemish to create and scale a target circle A ; or click a blemish; or if you want to control which area Camera Raw uses as the source, Cmd-drag/Ctrl-drag from the target area to the desired source area. When you release the mouse, a red dashed circle surrounds the target region and a green dashed circle surrounds a source area. B

A With the Spot Removal tool, we held down Ctrl-Alt/Cmd-Option and dragged to create a target circle around a blemish.

B The tool created a linked source circle in a similar area and repaired the blemish.

Drag across a blemish to create a target region. When you release the mouse, a red pin and dashed border surrounds the target region and a green pin and dashed border surrounds a source region. C–D

C Here we’re dragging to create a target region.

D The tool created a source region and two pins.