How to remove acne and smooth skin in Photoshop CS6

How to smooth skin and remove pimples in Photoshop. You have a nice face photo. Unfortunately, some acnes or pimples on the face and you want to remove them. Ance common appear to be among young people. So that, ance is a cause of terrible photos. How to remove them ? Keep calm. In this tutorial, I will show how to remove acne and smooth skin in Photoshop CS6. This tutorial have been tested in Photoshop CS5, CS4, CS3 and Photoshop CC. Dividing by two step:

– First step : Remove acne or pimples in Photoshop CS6
– Second step : make smooth skin in Photoshop CS6

Some functions of Photoshop CS6 are used in this tutorial : Patch tool, Duplicate layer, Filter -> Noise -> Median , Eraser tool, zoom in, zoom out.
Before removing acne and no smooth skin

After removing pimples and smooth skin in Photoshop CS6

I/ First step : Remove acne or pimples in Photoshop CS6
1/ Launch and open this photo in Photoshop CS6, You should zoom in to do easily.
2/ Layer 1 is copied Background layer by using Duplicate layer :
– Right click on Background layer then seclect Duplicate layer

A new dialog box open, rename Background Layer copy to Layer 1

Click Ok and locked Background layer.

To remove acne, you should use patch tool ( How to use patch tool in photoshop cs6 ). Choose a area acne skin then drag to good area skin and drop mouse.

Repeat this action, we will have a good skin face on layer 1. But this skin is really not smooth. In second step, I will show how to smooth skin.

II/ Second step : Smooth skin in Photoshop CS6

1 / Create Layer 1 copy name by using duplicate layer tool.

2/ On “layer 1 Copy” : Go to Filter -> Noise -> Median… A new dialog box open, enter 3 in Radius option.

Click OK

3/ We see that eye, eyebrow and lip are grew dim. We will delete them on “Layer 1 copy”
Using Erase tool to delete them.

3/ Unclocked layer 1 copy. Produce

Download file PSD for this tutorial :

Thanks for your reading !