<: Smooth Skin? What's the best way to smooth skin on photos? Is it bluring AB channels?
Hector Davila>
The Gaussian Blur Filter. Don't make selections to target skin areas(doing that is like chasing rainbows amd setting traps for unicorns). Do it to the whole image. Then take a snapshot of this state. Next undo gaussian blur. Use the history brush in lighten and darken modes(5-15% opac.) to paint back the areas you want to smooth. Make sure you click on the snapshot(history state) to paint back from.
