Hey, they're starting with Photoshop.
Twenty, twenty one, we have a super easy way to fix skin imperfections, all in just a couple of clicks.
The naming is a bit weird.
It's called neural filters, but I'm sure you're going to love it.
One thing that I have to tell you is that the previous technique is still best.
It's King.
Practice it and make sure you use it because it's versatile and you can apply it in loads of ways.
Coming back to this neural filter thing.
This is only available in Photoshop.
Twenty, twenty one and above.
Let's jump into it here.
We have the same picture as before.
The smoothing effect is a bit exaggerated.
So you can see the difference is less than half the surface blur and make a copy with control.
Next, go to the top menu with the filter from here.
Choose natural filters.
You'll see a brand new workspace here, only two tools on the left side.
But the real magic is on the right.
If you click on this icon, you'll get a ton of filters that are still in Baida Bay.
That just means work in progress, which translates into results that won't be perfect.
Will go to some of these in another lecture.
But for now, click here and that will reveal two options in this specific version of Photoshop.
We're looking for the skin smoothing, enable it and immediately some magic is going to take place.
Activate the zoom tool and focus on her face.
With the default settings, you'll still see a pretty solid improvement.
Use this icon at the bottom to turn the preview on and off so you can check the result.
And because we can adjust the smoothing through these two sliders, it's super easy to get the hang
of it.
This is why most people will love this feature.
Just play around with these sliders and constantly use the preview button that's at the bottom of this
panel.
You can even crank them up to a very high value and that still will give you a pretty believable result.
Obviously, you should use some restraint, but here's how massive of a difference it makes.
This is great.
I want you to have a look at the output.
My advice is you always said it to smart filter.
You'll see why that's important to them in it hit OK and will be brought back to the regular Photoshop
interface.
My advice is that you enabled the surface blur from the original layer and toggle the visibility of
this copy.
The difference between them is huge.
The neural filter did a much better job, though to be fair, I did exaggerate the smoothing in the
previous lecture so you could really see the change overall.
This is pretty good.
Now let's move on to another photo.
Please notice the lens panel.
This image was opened to control.
Oh, and that's why we only have one background layer that's locked without doing anything else.
Let's go to filter and then neural filter.
What I love about this feature is that Photoshop is smart enough to realize there are two faces in our
project.
This is why we have this thumbnail here that we can click on and select the other the face in the photo
note.
The sliders are separate for each portrait.
This means we can really crank it up for the older gentlemen, but leave it at the lowest setting for
the child.
Hit the preview button a few times so you can really see the changes.
Again, this feature is amazing and it's only going to get better before we hit.
OK, please change the output to smart filter.
That's important.
OK, now do you notice something that's a bit off?
Yeah, we have a blue vertical line going across the child's face.
Please double click the filter so you can have that workspace yet again.
OK, no, this Photoshop has a frame around each of these portraits and this line here.
Well, that translates to this line.
This is obviously a bug and I'm confident Photoshop will fix it in the next releases.
This is one of the reasons why I said you shouldn't rely too much on D one click wonders.
Sure, it's easy and in general D will give you solid results.
But if you don't know how to work with a brush tool on the mask, you're really limiting yourself.
So here's the deal because we chose Smart Filter as the output we get this mask, click it to select
that.
Next, grab the brush tool hot hajib.
Choose a decent size for the brush, but make sure you lower the hardness to zero percent.
When you're ready, paint over this line.
And is going to go away, unfortunately, the smoothing effect was removed, too, but as long as you're
brushing is somewhat decent, this shouldn't be too much of a problem overall.
This is the easy way to soften skin imperfections in Photoshop, twenty, twenty one and above to the
neural filters.
They're not perfect.
But even if they were, I still suggest, you know, your way around the brush tool and layer masks.