- [Glyn] Hi, everybody I'm Glyn Dewis
and in this video I've got a really cool
and super realistic technique to share with you,
showing how to use the healing brush in Photoshop
to reduce skin shine,
but also keep the exact same skin texture.
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Okay, so here on the screen
you can see a very shallow depth of field portrait.
It was shot around F2,
and this is of a guy called Femi
who attended a recent seminar I gave
in Petersfield in the UK.
Now, if you want to see the full behind-the-scenes,
showing the lighting I used in the picture
and the complete set up,
make sure you visit my website at glyndewis.com
I'll also put a link in the description part of this video.
As for the retouching side of things though,
here's the picture, pretty much out of camera,
where I've just added a little bit of colour correction,
sharpening, and just brightened the eyes a little bit.
Now at this stage though,
I want to reduce the shine on Femi's skin,
especially over his nose, forehead,
and the cheek area here.
And this was just caused
by the room we were working in being quite warm.
Now, let's tackle the nose first.
Over in the Layers panel
I'm gonna add a new blank layer,
and I'll rename that layer to Nose.
Now, I'm gonna use the healing brush to actually do this.
When we're using the healing brush,
just like with any other tool,
when we choose it at the top of the screen
we've got the options bar,
where we have a number of specific options available to us
for that particular tool.
One of the things I need to change,
first of all where it says Mode
we've got a number of different blend modes we can use.
For this technique, we're gonna change it to Darken.
Now, because we're going to be doing this technique
on a blank layer,
we need to change where it says Sample
to Current and Below or even just All Layers,
but definitely not leave it at Current Layer.
The reason for this is because
as we're using a blank layer,
Photoshop kind of needs to be led by the hand
and told that there are pixels elsewhere in the layer stack.
Otherwise, it will only look in this layer,
and it'll say there's nothing to work on.
So just change the actual sample to Current and Below.
Now when we use the healing brush tool
all we need to do is hold down the Alt or Option key
and click on an area of skin
that is good, clean, and unaffected.
So I'm gonna choose an area
just above the shine on Femi's nose,
hold down the Alt key,
we get this little target,
and I then click down.
And now you can see when I move my cursor around,
I've sampled that area of skin.
To use the healing brush then,
all we do is simply brush over the area we want to affect.
Now, because we changed the blend mode
of the actual healing brush to Darken,
what it's actually doing here
is it's only going to darken areas of the skin
that are brighter than the area that I used as the sample.
And this is just a great way
of making sure the healing brush
only affects area of skin that need to be affected
and doesn't work on areas
that are actually already pretty good.
Now, you can see at the moment
we've reduced the shine completely on Femi's nose.
That looks a little bit unrealistic,
we definitely need to see some kind of shine.
So what I'm going to do then is get my move tool
and then just change the actual opacity
of the Nose layer down to maybe around about 50%,
or even 40%.
So now when I turn that layer on and off,
you can see that we can still see
a little bit of that shine,
but it has reduced it quite a bit.
So I'm pretty good,
yeah, I think we'll leave it around about 40%.
So now let's tackle the actual forehead and the cheek.
So just like before, I'm gonna add a new blank layer.
I'll rename this to something like Shine, like so,
and again I'm gonna use the healing brush.
Now again, we'll hold down the Alt key or Option key on Mac,
and just sample a nice area of clean skin
to the side of the shine, like so,
and then I'm just literally just lifting up
and pressing down, and painting over the areas
that have actually got this shine on it.
I just want to reduce this quite a bit.
So we'll go to something like that.
And I'll also do it down his cheeks, I'll affect,
so I'll just sample an area of the cheek
that hasn't got the shine on it,
and just place a few dabs, like so.
When I turn that layer on and off,
you can see that we've definitely reduced the shine,
however you'll probably notice now when I zoom in
that not only have we reduced the shine,
but we've also lost a lot of the skin texture
and it's starting to look quite smudgy.
So just like before
when we used the actual healing brush on the nose,
we could now reduce the opacity
of this healing brush layer here
down to around to maybe 50%
and you can see even that is looking pretty good.
But again, it doesn't look realistic when I zoom in,
because we have definitely lost some of the sharpness
in the skin texture.
So here's how we can actually get that back.
I'm gonna click on the Background layer,
the original layer that we brought into Photoshop,
hold down my Control on PC, or Command key on Mac,
and press J to create a duplicate.
Let's just rename that layer there to Texture.
Okay, now I'll then move that layer
to the top of the layer stack,
and I can do that by simply dragging it, like so,
clicking and dragging and then dropping.
Or, a very quick way of doing it as well,
hold down the Control key, or Command key,
and then use the right square brackets
to move that layer up through the layer stack.
You can also use the left bracket key
to bring it down a little bit as well,
but we'll just quickly take it right to the top, like so.
Now I'm gonna go to the Filter menu
and choose Convert for Smart Filters,
cuz I'm gonna use a filter now
to bring back the texture.
Then we're gonna go to Filter, Other, and High Pass.
And in here, when we zoom in,
if I just zoom in to the picture,
you can see that we get this kind of grey covering
on our image,
but you'll start to see, just very slightly,
some of the very sharp and contrasty areas of the picture
starting to show through.
Now, at the moment I've got a pixel radius here
of around about 4.
If I set it to 1,
you'll see that we can just about see
some of that texture shining through,
but not a horrendous amount,
so I'll just try 4, and then click Okay.
Let's just close that down.
Alright, let's just zoom out a little bit.
And then what we need to do now to get ride of the grey,
but to be able to see this texture here,
the sharp, contrasty areas,
is change the blend mode from Normal to, maybe, Overlay.
You could also try Soft Light and Hard Light,
just try those to see what you prefer,
but I think for this one, I'm liking to use Overlay.
When we zoom in then,
let's have a look at the forehead and the cheek,
we turn that on and off,
we can see that we really have now added in some texture.
However, that texture has also been applied
to other areas of the skin.
We need to restrict this texture only to be on the areas
that we actually applied the original healing brush to.
There's a number of ways we could do that.
The first way is,
we could actually add a black layer mask first of all,
by holding down the Alt key on PC,
or Option key on Mac,
clicking on the layer mask icon
at the bottom of the layers panel,
to now hide the results
of actually getting that texture back,
and then just using a white brush
to paint the texture back in.
And that works pretty good.
However, you could accidentally,
just on the outsides of the brush,
end up brushing over other parts of the skin
that we didn't need to affect.
So another way you could do it is by using a clipping mask.
Let me just get rid of this layer mask here,
to take us back to where the texture
is now being affecting the whole picture.
All I'm going to do is hold down the Alt key on PC,
or Option key on Mac,
and put my cursor between the top texture layer
and the healing brush,
the Shine layer directly below.
And when I do that, you'll notice over in the Layers panel,
we get a square box with a down-facing arrow.
So when I click now on this little line
between these two layers, we click on it,
and we'll notice the texture layer moves across,
and we do now have this down arrow
pointing to the layer directly below.
Basically, what the clipping mask means
is that what's on the top layer
will only be visible
on the visible parts of the layer directly below it.
And when we look at that layer below,
all we have are the healing brush layers.
So this texture now is only going to be showing on the areas
where we applied the healing brush.
So now look when we actually turn this top layer on and off,
we can see, hopefully you can see this on your screen,
let me just zoom in maybe a touch more.
If I turn that layer on and off,
you can see now that we do have the shine reduced,
but we have actually got some of that texture back.
The reason we used a smart filter,
was so that you could have the flexibility,
if you wanted to,
of increasing or decreasing
the amount of texture showing through.
So let's just open up that layer here
and what we can see, the high pass filter,
if we double click on that now
it brings up our original settings in high pass,
so you could, if you wanted to, increase the amount,
or even decrease it,
just so you can actually get the settings
to be exactly how you want.
So that smart filter
gives you a heck of a lot of flexibility.
But let's close that down,
let's double click on the hand tool
to zoom back out.
To show you the before and after,
let's just come down to the background layer,
turn that, before, after,
before and after.
We've reduced the shine,
not got rid of it completely,
because that wouldn't look realistic,
but we've definitely reduced it now
so that the eye doesn't get drawn to it too much.
Of course Photoshop being Photoshop,
there are seemingly limitless ways
that you can do the same thing.
But this is just another way,
another little technique rather,
you can add to your Photoshop bag of tricks.
But I think you'll agree,
it's incredibly simple, quick, and effective.
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