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Smooth out wrinkles

Smooth out wrinkles - Photoshop Tutorial

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Smooth out wrinkles

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- [Instructor] I try to get my photographs as perfect as possible in camera, but I often use Lightroom in Photoshop to retouch wrinkles. I tell my clients that I'm not going to make them look 17, but I will make them look refreshed and ready for the day. I do as much retouching as possible in Lightroom. One of my favorite tools is the Healing Brush. Each one of these pins is an area I've already worked on. To use the brush, make sure it's on Healing mode. This blends the target and the source areas. Set the opacity to around 30. You can always adjust it later. Zoom in, make the brush a little larger than the wrinkle. For this eye area, I'll use a couple of short, small passes, because there's not a lot of clean skin to use as a source. Sometimes Lightroom selects an area it thinks is good and it's not. Pull the pin to a better place and adjust the opacity if needed. Resize the image and turn off the overlay to see…

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