One technique I use for removing small wrinkles and blemishes if to use the clone stamp in PS. with modest opacity and moderate flow, displacing the stamp slightly and frequently selecting new source. Unfortunately, it won't un-squint her eyes.
AuntiPode wrote:
For some reason on my monitor you version seems to have acquired some sort of texture rather than smoothing.
Yes, perhaps I over did it a little with the texture. But that was the idea of adding texture on the skin, to look like real pores. By adding this texture it makes the skin look more natural, clean and smooth. Too much smoothing doens't look real.
Her wrinkles were just removed a little, so will still look like her, and her eyes brightened a little bit.
AuntiPode wrote:
Any portrait photographer can tell you, "real" is over-rated. Most women prefer a kinder vision.
I agree, most women prefer the Photoshop look, however my wife sometimes ask me in the morning if she had put too much make up. I guess that she prefers to have a more realistic skin. Just enought to show the smooth pores, and even skin.
Years ago, when I made my living doing portrait work, the single question most often asked by adult women was:
"Can you remove those lines?"
Somehow I doubt human nature has changed.
Oh how I wish I'd had the power of Photoshop back in the day. Color re-touching was expensive and the lab turn-around times, glacial. (I never learned the brush skills.)
