Sometimes you have to completely reconstruct the skin texture for that beauty look
Here is the complete Skin book tutorial, step-by-step – including skin smoothing, skin textures and my signature “Pixie Dust” skin highlight technique. This was recorded as part of a seminar I gave for the Tucson Photography Meetup Group in February 2011
Beauty Retouching from Lee Varis on Vimeo.
Hang in there with this one – its a long one at just about 40 minutes – this is the tutorial as done in the 2nd edition of the “Skin” book.
I am teaching beauty retouching techniques like this at our next workshop in Los Angeles: Hollywood Lighting in the Hurrell Style — May 13th & 14th, 2017 – click for more info!
hi mr varis
thanks a lot for the tutorial 🙂
Hi Lee
I’ve really been enjoying your tutorials & did a beauty retouch following your tute which I was thrilled with. I’ve just tried to to another & can’t for the life of me remember how I ungrouped the texture layer to make the pattern. Is there a short cut for this? Thank you
Yes – hold down the option or alt key and click in-between the two layers you want to ungroup. You can group them again by clicking again.
Hi Lee,
thanks very much for sharing these tutorials, awesome stuff! I got myself a couple of beers, sat back and enjoyed every minute!
Merry Christmas Lee.
Cheers, Shaun.