Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

REDUCE WRINKLES for a more youthful appearance
You can remove wrinkles with Photoshop in a variety
of ways, and with a variety of Photoshop tools.
However, if you remove all the wrinkles and give
a person perfectly smooth skin, the effect is not
believable. By using the Spot Healing Brush in
content-aware mode and working on separate layers,
you can maintain more control over the corrections
and give your subject a rejuvenated yet natural
appearance.
You can modify the Spot Healing Brush to a medium
softness and change its shape and angle so that your
brush strokes are not as visible when you literally
paint to reduce the wrinkles. A pressure-sensitive pen
tablet is particularly useful for this task because you
can set the Spot Healing Brush to respond to pressure
and then gently paint over the lines, using multiple
light strokes.
You can create multiple layers and remove the
wrinkles on one area of the face on each layer.
After you brush away the years, you can change
the opacity of the altered layers individually to
reintroduce just enough wrinkles to appear natural.
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1 Click the Zoom tool and zoom in
to enlarge the areas with
wrinkles.
2 Click the New Layer button to
add a new empty layer.
3 Click the Spot Healing Brush.
4 Click Sample All Layers
( changes to ).
5 Click Content-Aware
( changes to ).
6 Click the Brush Preset drop-down
menu to open the Brush picker.
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7 Click and drag the Size slider to
change the brush width to cover
the deepest wrinkles.
8 Click and drag the Hardness
slider to the midpoint to build a
brush with slightly soft edges.
9 Click here and drag toward the
center to change the roundness
of the brush.
0 Click and drag the arrowhead to
change the angle of the stroke in
the direction of the deepest
wrinkles.
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