Superb Skin Airbrush Technique

Dan (Israel)
#1. February 24th, 2008, at 5:27 PM.

Thank you for taking the time making Photoshop tutorials
Nicely done!
(You might put again the missing pictures though).

Dan (Israel)
#2. February 24th, 2008, at 5:31 PM.

Sorry. After refreshing the page, nothing is missing…
Thanks again.

Janice
#3. February 25th, 2008, at 12:17 AM.

I think, as a tutorial, you should have made the skin darker instead of brightening it like those makeup ads. Because the purpose for this tutorial is to airbrush skin right? Not to make it brighter. Perhaps offer it as an additional step but don’t actually use it so that we can see the difference without the brightening in the final results.

Rupali Patil
#4. February 25th, 2008, at 6:27 AM.

It’s fine….!i got the best results….

TuanAnh
#5. February 25th, 2008, at 9:04 AM.

Thats really a great tutorial.Very useful , thank you!

carlmaxx
#6. February 26th, 2008, at 2:49 PM.

thank you so much!!! now i learn something new….God bless you

Jim
#7. February 26th, 2008, at 5:57 PM.

Nice start but the flesh is too “rangy”. She has a big red splotch in her forehead. Examine the alpha channels. Many high end clients don’t want china dolls. Some wrinkles need to be there, but just subdue them. Flesh is very hard to do and takes a great deal of time. There really is no blanket move. I felt the noise layer turned to 50% helped the flesh look better. Dont forget the hair edge as well.

-Jim

Billy
#8. February 27th, 2008, at 8:20 PM.

This may be useful for people who don’t want it to look that perfect and want it more natural:
I find that in step 13, if you use the green channel instead of the red, it looks more natural and less airbrushed. But you start seeing pimples and some wrinkles.

Heather
#9. February 28th, 2008, at 8:42 AM.

Thank you so much for this tutorial, I’ve tried airbrushing so many times and failed, this is by far the best tutorial I have found online! THANKS!

Suruchi Jain
#10. February 29th, 2008, at 1:14 AM.

Hey!
I don’t have the SMART BLUR OPTION in ma photoshop

wt shall i do?/
ur tutorial really seems interesting
is dere ne other alternative for SMART BLUR???

i use photoshop7.0…is dere ne other alternative?/ plz tell

khaled
#11. February 29th, 2008, at 4:32 AM.

thanks it’s great and cool tutorial
thank you so much

Syd
#12. March 6th, 2008, at 8:53 AM.

I didnt really like it. The skin still looks very fake in my opinion.

Dan
#13. March 8th, 2008, at 2:36 AM.

Guess what. It still looks plastic and blurred. Sorry, but real skin still looks better and the sooner idiots in the magazine and fashion industry realise this, the sooner insecure women will stop trying to live up to impossible standards.

knottstone2
#14. March 10th, 2008, at 3:17 PM.

Thank you for the tutorial!

LAXMAN
#15. March 11th, 2008, at 10:17 PM.

NICE EFFECT

chuchu
#16. March 12th, 2008, at 7:59 AM.

i Did not get it
~ i can’t make a layer in groups~
i also don’t have the right brush~
i don’t have also surface blur~

i use photoshop 7.0

Arild
#17. March 15th, 2008, at 7:29 AM.

I personally think the end result in this tutorial really looks fake and not good at all. But if you do some small changes along the way, and take down the opacity in the end result, I got a totaly different look. So I’m super happy with this guide. Saves me hours with the clone stamp and patch tool.

Thanks!

daveyphotodude
#18. March 16th, 2008, at 7:53 PM.

Nice tutorial !!! best one I have found on the subject of airbrushing !!! Thank You !!!

Giuseppe
#19. March 18th, 2008, at 3:46 AM.

Very nice tutorial, never done photoshop before and I managed to improve the skin quality on two drunk bastards. (don’t ask me who they are) the change isn’t dramatic but more suddle, making it look even more realistic. I might not have used exact tutorial settings, but it is definently a good starting point as a beginner to the program.
Very nice 5 stars or whatever they are called here

Hasmukhray
#20. March 19th, 2008, at 7:13 AM.

What I have noticed, is that it will work deferentially on deferent skin tone. However, if you do bit of a change according to what your image needs while you are working on it, then you will get almost 100% result of the effort has been made. I personally appreciate & liked it. Many thanks for your time.

Aviv
#21. March 21st, 2008, at 2:21 PM.

When i’m doing step 11, when i start painting nothing is hapenning, the skin doesn’t change? can you help me ASAP?

bhatti
#22. March 22nd, 2008, at 8:42 PM.

this dont look so realistic but i was searching tutorial like this.
this can be more reallistic. now it looks like as a model’s photo. looks pretty.

Becki
#23. March 27th, 2008, at 4:34 PM.

Hey I dont have the surface blur tool either? Do you have to download it as an add on or something :S HELPP!!

sarah
#24. April 2nd, 2008, at 1:24 PM.

i really don’t get the persons who say they can’t put layers in to groups, they don’t have smart blur or something else because they use ps 7.0, i use it, and i can do all that och i have all the tools o;
the result was really nice(!), even if i had some trouble understanding all the tools from the eginning because i use photoshop with another language (swedish)
thx for a great tutorial

Vici
#25. April 7th, 2008, at 1:54 PM.

Its all worked fine until it gets to the 50% grey scale + then later when i turn it back to a skin tone - i cant see the image at all, and when i try to apply image all i get is a screen of blockcolour because of the greyscale, and iv followed your instructions through thoroughly. so why hasnt it worked?!

ashwin chande
#26. April 19th, 2008, at 6:42 AM.

there are lots of other simple steps to do this work

avenkatesh
#27. April 28th, 2008, at 6:02 AM.

your tutorial are very nice to under standing and ur explaining through is very nice , giving the nice opportunuty to learn photo shop effects , thank you tutorial out post

Jody
#28. April 30th, 2008, at 2:32 PM.

Vici - #25 - Make sure you adjust to ‘Hard Light’ next to the Opacity level on the top. This will solve your problem.

Cindy
#29. May 3rd, 2008, at 6:45 PM.

Awesome tutorial! Worked perfectly…thanks!

deepak
#30. May 9th, 2008, at 1:54 PM.

its very interesting tutorial

John
#31. May 13th, 2008, at 11:47 AM.

Horrible tutorial. Several step left out…
1)How was the skin lightened?
2)Where did the mask from the group come from?
…. just to name a few!!!

Cass
#32. May 13th, 2008, at 3:31 PM.

I hate to say it, but parts of it still look far too smooth for being natural. This tutorial is slightly similar to one on Photoshop Tutorial’s website, but their’s is more realistic. If anyone wants that tutorial, look it up there.

Dennis
#33. May 17th, 2008, at 6:52 AM.

Thanks You Very Much I learn a lot to this tutorial but i make a little change to what you have done.. i apply the apply image to the texture layer rander than to the Group it self hehehehe.. then I find it more realistic.. but i think i always defend on the person editing the image..
Thank YOu Again.. Nice tutorial

ali
#34. May 27th, 2008, at 5:01 PM.

hi there, i have long been wanting to achieve this strategy you have changed my life!!!!

thank you

sLick-E
#35. June 16th, 2008, at 8:18 AM.

Dude, max respect! I really nailed it this time. hahaha! More power to your team. ^_^V

melody
#37. June 19th, 2008, at 10:38 AM.

wow! thanks! it was really easy following the instructions, hot keys helped as well!! great job!

Andrea
#38. June 19th, 2008, at 3:16 PM.

Here’s a hot tip for everyone saying it’s too fake….noone said you had to do it by the book! Learning the concepts and then playing around with the settings gave me a great natural finish, thanks so much, this is just what i was looking for.

YASIR R
#39. July 12th, 2008, at 1:57 AM.

IT IS SUPPERB…..

Craig
#40. July 16th, 2008, at 2:59 AM.

Nice tutorial. I work with photoshop everyday and have learnt something new from this. Ignore the comments above that say it doesn’t work or there are steps missing…..it does and there aren’t. These people do not understand photoshop and are using it incorrectly.

kristina
#42. July 31st, 2008, at 11:29 PM.

i can’t do step 11, it keeps on saying thAT i could not use the history brush because the history state does noty contain a corresponding layer. did i missed a step or that i did something wrong?

Manolo
#43. August 6th, 2008, at 1:23 PM.

Very very nice.Thank you.

TRP
#44. August 7th, 2008, at 12:16 AM.

Who is girl?