Originally posted by alspe How on earth is her skin so smooth? Have you done smoothening or what?
Blemishes on the skin is dealt with by using the "spot healing brush" in PS.
Then "new layer via copy", then heavy noise reduction on the whole layer,-then a mask is created and the NR effect is removed
from the hair, eyes and lips.. Another layer and then sharpening by quite a large amount,- mask,-and the sharpening is
removed from everything but the eyes, lips and hair.
In the film-era, the same was done by studio lighting, make-up and retouching the paper copies. Thank God for Photoshop.