What is good for the technical picture for the portrait will be a very specific tutorial. Here's just post-production in order to make the same pictures as on certain advertisements or skin texture lighting etc are perfect.

Good already taking a picture of someone and we go there.

Before anything else remove the lock that protects the layer. To do this double click on the layer "background" and then click OK. Then duplicate the layer (ctrl + j) to keep the base

Well at first it will remove the defects of the skin. If I zoomed to 100% of the points we quickly see the ugly face (moles little light button hole etc ...).

For that two tools will be useful. The clone stamp tool and equalizer.

The clone stamp

Take the Clone tool to make a little try. The operation of the buffer is simple, just select a source area (alt + click) and get rid of what you want by replacing the source area.

Here is a small defect removed. Bring your "source" closest to the area come for reasons of color. Need it you can lower the opacity of your brush to 50% so that it sees the least

By taking the source point in the middle of the face and then wiping the mole, here is the result.

Not top you tell me. To remedy this, I use the tool correction. One could almost say that this tool is magic because it works the same as the clone stamp but it keeps the same color / brightness as the point of arrival:

To use these 2 tools, promote and blur brush tool duplication thought of using an opacity of 50%.

Here I continue with this step the whole picture (think of arms to the coup and all the visible part)

From there we will blur the skin. So for that I'll split the face by brightness area to allow the end to have a control on the skin's texture. If you blur your face all of a sudden the lights go mainly to the mix and level of hair color that will make very weird.

So why take the lasso tool and make a selection on the layer "base copy"

Once the selection is made, duplicate the selection (ctrl + j). For ease of reading, create a folder where you go to the party blur

And perform this operation on all visible parts of the body (I mean not the clothes). No need to be super accurate here is to finish with me what happens:

So now you have a file with all layers of the skin, they are going to blur one by one (do not worry if these steps longer than that).

Atténuation> flou Gaussien.">Take the first layer in the file is made filter> Blur> Gaussian blur.

For the value it depends on the size of the photo. For a 2048x3072 image I put a value of 13. The image will be little more the longer it will reduce blur.

Now to do this on all layers quickly simply select the next layer and press Ctrl + f and Photoshop will apply the last filter used

Ultimately this is what you get

So the main reason why I told you to cut the face into several parts is that it lowers the opacity of each layer independently to display more or ess than skin texture
If I put a value between 60 and 100% opacity, I keep the cleanliness of the blur but I get the natural skin texture.

I also cut down the opacity a little group

To avoid areas such as eyes mouth hair etc ... filled with the blur, you can put a layer mask to erase areas too

Now for even more realism we will give the skin texture but once they own it.

For this we will use the High Pass filter. Divers > Passe Haut.">Filter> Other> High Pass.

So get used to the layer or you improved skin and duplicate it. On the duplicate layer apply the high pass filter at 1

Duplicate a new layer "copy database" but this time it put the value 2 and the last time in setting the value to 3

Think pass the 3 layer high pass over the file with layers to blur

To better put these three storage layers in a folder and change to overlay the file and then magic

Note that the high pass filter has earned the sharpness (noted for other photo editor)

To add a bit of sharpness, it will sharpen the image. For this we will duplicate our work. Click on the icon "create a document from current state" that you therefore creates a duplicate of your work.

aplatir l’image.">Done Layer> Flatten Image.

So you have a document with all the work we do and just a doc with just one layer. Renforcement > accentué.">We will therefore increase this layer: Filter> Sharpen> Sharpen.

For the size of my image I have is setting:

Then take the picture so pronounced and bring it in your first workspace

You voyer although the image is not realistic but it is super cons net so we are going down like a 20% opacity to just get some detail

And voila end of Part 1

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