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Remove acne and scars in Lightroom

Remove acne and scars in Lightroom

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Remove acne and scars in Lightroom

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- [Instructor] The healing brush is great for getting rid of acne. Activate the tool and make sure it's on heal mode. For most pimples, we want the source and the target area to blend. Set opacity to 100. We want to totally erase pimples. No one likes acne in a portrait. Zoom in, size the brush about the size of the pimple with medium feathering. Resize the brush often. This prevents soft looking spots and helps keep the skin's texture intact. Click on a blemish. Lightroom picks a source area, and it's often wrong. Click on the forward slash key to get another option. And often that's wrong, too, so I normally just pull the pin to a better area. Removing acne is something that takes time. So just get in the zone. I speeded up the video so you can see the final result. So here's the before, and here's the after. There's still some color variation in the skin, but I'll show you how to fix that in an upcoming…

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