The makeup cracks make look much older than she really is and it causes some unnatural lines on her nose. This woman is in her early 20’s and has wonderful skin, but even the best skin has blemishes – that’s reality. Original image from camera with only minor blemish touchups However, with today’s high resolution lenses and cameras, studio lights, and makeup that started to fail during a shoot even this models skin can look pretty rough: Now this model has the best skin I’ve seen on an adult human being in all of my life.

Now even that might be too much for some people, so in my tutorial video in this article I show you how to use Portraiture to get the right amount of skin softening to suit your own personal needs. My normal skin softening workflow as shown in the video plus a couple additional healing edits Here’s an example of how I typically do skin softening for my own taste: That level of skin softening might be appropriate for certain target audiences, but skin softening doesn’t have to be that harsh. Skin softening is a touchy subject because some people look at the shot above and screech “oh her skin looks like plastic” or something along those lines.

Imagenomic Portraiture 2.3 (Build 2308-01) using the Smoothing: High PresetĬanon 1D X 1/200 sec at f/10, ISO 100 at 160mm ( 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM) CLICK HERE for my October 2016 new and improved video with more obvious before and after!