Skin smoothing Tricks

There’s no need for skin smoothing with our rosy-cheeked youngster here, but for more mature subjects a little smoothing can be very flattering. Here’s a method that produces natural results. Begin by duplicating your background layer then go to the Blend Mode settings in the Layers panel and choose overlay. next go to Filter>other High pass. set radius to about 4 and hit ok. press cmd/ ctrl+i. Finally, hold alt and click the add Mask icon in the Layers panel to add a full black mask, then paint with white to reveal the softening effect over the skin.