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Challenge: Improving skin

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Challenge: Improving skin

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- [Narrator] Welcome to the challenge for this chapter. For this challenge we'll be working with a portrait that captured of my buddy Bruce. Bruce just has this great sense of humor. We're going to start off with this portrait on the left of Bruce. Here's the before, and then the image on the right is the after. So what do you need to do? Well there are essentially four things. First, clean up all of the little skin variations or blemishes. Second, I want you to work on removing the shine on his forehead. Third, reduce the red, his ear over here looks really bright red, so I want you to reduce that. And then the last adjustment is just to desaturate the image, overall, to craft a unique look with the file. For this particular challenge you should give yourself approximately five to seven minutes. After you finish the challenge, you can come back to the next movie, and there I'll go through my steps for how I would approach this challenge. Alright, well good luck on the challenge, and…

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