Clearing Skin with Adobe Photoshop 6.0

[SamRoc]

Well I have been reading and trying to do this, but I'm complety lost! Does anyone use Photoshop 6.0? thanks!

 

[ziggystardust]

Depending on what you need to do you can do it 2 ways. Use the clone tool (stamp looking button), this will work for smaller blemishes. Or you can use the healing brush tool (looks like a bandaid in your toolbar) - this will work wonders. I took sooooo many wrinkles out of a Katherine Hepburn picture she looked 10 years younger instantly. It was pic taken right before she died and she wasn't looking her best.

Always save your original piece before making changes, just incase you go too far with either one of those tools.

Good Luck!

 

[SamRoc]

Thanks so much for all your help ziggystardust!

 

[SamRoc]

I just realized i have the 6.0 version and it doesn't have the healing brush. Still working on it though!

 

[safetymom]

Work on a layer so you can change it if you don't like it.

 

[SamRoc]

Thanks safetymom, I guess since i have the 6.0 version, i have to use the clone (stamp) tool. Really wish I had the 7.0 version though, that healing brush sounds alot easier. Will go do some experimenting now with it!

 

[Serena]

This could come in handy.

 

[SamRoc]

Hi Serena, not sure what you meant!

 

[Serena]

As in fixing my pictures.

 

[helenabear]

In 6.0 you can always just do a sample of near by color of the skin that is close in shade (with the little eyedropper looking icon) and not blemished and then do a difussed small circle of that area so it blends in.

It works best if you zoom in a lot so you can pick the best color possible as well as diffuse the color in (paint brush with the fuzzy edged circle is what I mean by difussed)

That's some of what I used to do before I got 7.0

 

[SamRoc]

henelabear, When you got the 7.0 version of photoshop, how do you use the healing brush and is it alot easier than 6.0? thanks!

 

[helenabear]

The healing brush is kind of similar to what I used to use when I needed to touch up. I click on it, then put my mouse over the area I want to "copy" then while holding the Alt key, I click. That picks up the colors from that area. Part of a "problem" I have with the healing brush is that it is more work to flip back and forth with sizes if I am doing smaller areas. You can adjust the size of the area you take from and brush over just as you do with the paint brush. Sometimes it is easier to paint over instead of using the healing tool... especially around the eyes.

But if you are doing a pretty noticable single blemish, it would be far easier to use.

I'm sure that didn't totally make sense, but the healing brush will just take small areas of what you are trying to correct and it will take all the colors around and just "copy" it to the new location when you click. Sometimes the variance in colors makes it too hard to use in smaller or different shaded areas.

I use both equally though.