Air Brushing is one of the more common retouching techniques Photoshop is famous for. You see examples of Photoshop Air Brushing in magazines, advertisements, flyers and billboards all the time. Today’s tutorial from my Youtube Channel demonstrates how Photoshop Air Brushing is done.
In my Photoshop Air Brushing Tutorial I am using Photoshop CC and a Wacom Intuos 3 Drawing Tablet. However neither of these tools are necessary to accomplish the work in this tutorial. You can do this with a mouse and with any version of “Modern Photoshop” (meaning Photoshop CS3-Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop CC)
Photoshop CC Airbrushing Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th1vg2aKmZQ
What you were learn in this Photoshop tutorial:
- Creating a custom brush preset for skin retouching.
- Creating a non destructive layer mask for retouching skin.
- Utilizing the Surface Blur Filter o create smooth skin effect.
Start by duplicating your layer (I prefer to label mine blur).
Under Filter select Surface Blur and change your setting until you see the smooth skin you want.
Using alt, click the layer mask on your blur layer so you can no longer see the blurred skin.
With select your layer mask and a soft white brush.
In your brush presets, manipulate your brush shape until you have a thin angled soft brush instead of a circular brush.
Paint in your smooth skin with your brush avoiding areas where you want to retain detail, such as the lips, eyes, eye brows, contours of the nose etc.
Once you have completed retouching your skin as desired, you can reduce the opacity of your blur layer until you have the result you want.
Don’t forget to subscribe and watch these other Photoshop Retouching Videos in my series:
Photoshop CC Tutorial | Whiten Teeth in Photoshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck8M7…
Photoshop CC Tutorial | Change Eye Color in Photoshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Z5p…
Photoshop CC Tutorial | Masking in Photoshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBkaR…
Photoshop CS6 Tutorial | Changing Hair Color in Photoshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7d1Y…
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