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Hey, they're starting with Photoshop.

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Twenty, twenty one, we have a super easy way to fix skin imperfections, all in just a couple of clicks.

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The naming is a bit weird.

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It's called neural filters, but I'm sure you're going to love it.

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One thing that I have to tell you is that the previous technique is still best.

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It's King.

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Practice it and make sure you use it because it's versatile and you can apply it in loads of ways.

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Coming back to this neural filter thing.

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This is only available in Photoshop.

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Twenty, twenty one and above.

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Let's jump into it here.

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We have the same picture as before.

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The smoothing effect is a bit exaggerated.

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So you can see the difference is less than half the surface blur and make a copy with control.

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Next, go to the top menu with the filter from here.

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Choose natural filters.

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You'll see a brand new workspace here, only two tools on the left side.

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But the real magic is on the right.

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If you click on this icon, you'll get a ton of filters that are still in Baida Bay.

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That just means work in progress, which translates into results that won't be perfect.

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Will go to some of these in another lecture.

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But for now, click here and that will reveal two options in this specific version of Photoshop.

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We're looking for the skin smoothing, enable it and immediately some magic is going to take place.

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Activate the zoom tool and focus on her face.

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With the default settings, you'll still see a pretty solid improvement.

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Use this icon at the bottom to turn the preview on and off so you can check the result.

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And because we can adjust the smoothing through these two sliders, it's super easy to get the hang

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of it.

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This is why most people will love this feature.

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Just play around with these sliders and constantly use the preview button that's at the bottom of this

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panel.

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You can even crank them up to a very high value and that still will give you a pretty believable result.

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Obviously, you should use some restraint, but here's how massive of a difference it makes.

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This is great.

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I want you to have a look at the output.

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My advice is you always said it to smart filter.

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You'll see why that's important to them in it hit OK and will be brought back to the regular Photoshop

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interface.

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My advice is that you enabled the surface blur from the original layer and toggle the visibility of

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this copy.

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The difference between them is huge.

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The neural filter did a much better job, though to be fair, I did exaggerate the smoothing in the

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previous lecture so you could really see the change overall.

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This is pretty good.

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Now let's move on to another photo.

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Please notice the lens panel.

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This image was opened to control.

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Oh, and that's why we only have one background layer that's locked without doing anything else.

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Let's go to filter and then neural filter.

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What I love about this feature is that Photoshop is smart enough to realize there are two faces in our

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project.

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This is why we have this thumbnail here that we can click on and select the other the face in the photo

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note.

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The sliders are separate for each portrait.

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This means we can really crank it up for the older gentlemen, but leave it at the lowest setting for

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the child.

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Hit the preview button a few times so you can really see the changes.

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Again, this feature is amazing and it's only going to get better before we hit.

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OK, please change the output to smart filter.

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That's important.

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OK, now do you notice something that's a bit off?

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Yeah, we have a blue vertical line going across the child's face.

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Please double click the filter so you can have that workspace yet again.

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OK, no, this Photoshop has a frame around each of these portraits and this line here.

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Well, that translates to this line.

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This is obviously a bug and I'm confident Photoshop will fix it in the next releases.

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This is one of the reasons why I said you shouldn't rely too much on D one click wonders.

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Sure, it's easy and in general D will give you solid results.

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But if you don't know how to work with a brush tool on the mask, you're really limiting yourself.

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So here's the deal because we chose Smart Filter as the output we get this mask, click it to select

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that.

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Next, grab the brush tool hot hajib.

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Choose a decent size for the brush, but make sure you lower the hardness to zero percent.

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When you're ready, paint over this line.

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And is going to go away, unfortunately, the smoothing effect was removed, too, but as long as you're

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brushing is somewhat decent, this shouldn't be too much of a problem overall.

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This is the easy way to soften skin imperfections in Photoshop, twenty, twenty one and above to the

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neural filters.

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They're not perfect.

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But even if they were, I still suggest, you know, your way around the brush tool and layer masks.