Final Image Preview
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching How to do Professional Facial Retouching](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/final.jpg)
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Step 1
Open photo and resize it by using Image > Image Size to 1500 px width and 1000px height.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 1 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 1](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/1.jpg)
Step 2
Let’s start by correcting color on photo. Copy layer by using Ctrl+J. Blur photo a bit using Fliter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with following parameters:
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 2 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 2](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/2.jpg)
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 3 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 3](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/3.jpg)
Step 3
Change layer blending mode to Color for this layer.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 4 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 4](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/4.jpg)
Step 4
Go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options and on Advanced Blending remove check marks from R and G channels.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 5 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 5](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/5.jpg)
Now adjust color slightly to your taste on this layer using Image > Adjustments > Curves.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 6 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 6](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/6.jpg)
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 7 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 7](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/7.jpg)
Step 5
Now we are going to remove skin defects. Create a new layer. Choose the Healing Brush Tool, then select Sampled in Source parameter and select All Layers for Sample parameter. Choose the part of the face, that we’ll be using as a sample.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 8 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 8](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/8.jpg)
Step 6
Using the Healing Brush Tool (choose soft edges of the brush) and holding the Alt button we choose the most clear skin area, then overlay the sample image on the problem skin area to remove the defect.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 9 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 9](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/9.jpg)
Step 7
Then go to forehead area and remove defects by using the same method.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 10 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 10](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/10.jpg)
Step 8
We also remove small wrinkles that possibly annoys the eye (still working with the Healing Brush Tool).
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 11 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 11](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/11.jpg)
Step 9
In the end we should have the following result:
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 12 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 12](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/12.jpg)
You can see on photo below where i applied Healing Brush Tool:
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 12a How to do Professional Facial Retouching 12a](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/12a.jpg)
Step 10
Up to this moment we should have three layers – bottom layer (original photo), layer with color correction and the upper layer, on which we have carried out skin cleaning. Copy all the three layers twice by using Ctrl+J for each layer, then move the copies of the three layers grouping them like on image below. Finally merge both new layer groups together, using Ctrl+E and you will have five layers. Temporarily turn off visibility of the upper layer and work on the other layer (Layer 1 copy).
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 12b How to do Professional Facial Retouching 12b](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/12b.jpg)
Step 11
We are going to work on creating the perfect skin texture. Choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool and select the face (it’s not necessary to select regularly).
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 13 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 13](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/13.jpg)
Step 12
Invert the selection using Select > Inverse and delete everything that is situated in the selected area by pressing Delete button. On the layer you should only have the face now. Select eyebrow area using the Polygonal Lasso Tool and delete it using Delete button.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 14 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 14](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/14.jpg)
Step 13
Press Ctrl+D to deselect selected area. Remove the second eyebrow and start deleting eyes on the same way.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 15 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 15](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/15.jpg)
Step 14
Now do the same thing to the lips area.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 16 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 16](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/16.jpg)
If you turn off visibility on all other layers you can see we should have something like a mask on layer. Turn back on visibility on all layers except upper layer.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 17 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 17](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/17.jpg)
Step 15
Apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to this layer with following settings:
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 18 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 18](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/18.jpg)
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 19 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 19](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/19.jpg)
Step 16
Change layer opacity to 65%.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 20 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 20](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/20.jpg)
Step 17
Turn on visibility of the upper layer.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 21 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 21](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/21.jpg)
Create Clipping Mask for this layer using Layer > Create Clipping Mask. Apply Filter > Other > High Pass with following settings:
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 22 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 22](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/22.jpg)
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 23 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 23](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/23.jpg)
Step 18
Change blending mode on this layer to Linear Light.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 24 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 24](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/24.jpg)
Step 19
Change layer opacity to 50% for this layer.
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 25 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 25](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/25.jpg)
Step 20
You can stop here if you’re satisfied with the result. But there are too many red and yellow color tones on the portrait, sometimes it can be noticeable on the last steps, as in this case. It can be easily corrected, for this purpose merge all the layers into one using Ctrl+Shift+E and apply Image > Adjustments > Color Balance with the following parameters to newly created layer:
![How to do Professional Facial Retouching 26 How to do Professional Facial Retouching 26](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/26.jpg)
Final Image
![Creating Cardiac Rate Effect How to do Professional Facial Retouching](http://cdn.photoshopstar.com/8217/final.jpg)
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