Soften skin on any face using Photoshop

Really simple and fast Photoshop tutorial, where you will soften skin on a random face and also remove wrinkles and other skin irregularities.

Open random photo, where you will add the soften skin effect.

Gwyneth Paltrow is my current model :)

Duplicate the layer first by pressing the Ctrl (Command on MacOS) and J together.

Select Healing Brush Tool.

Then press Alt (Option on MacOS) and click on clear skin.

With that you have selected the cloning part of the skin.

Release the Alt key (Option on MacOS) and start cloning the imperfect skin.

Do it the same on the whole face.

Now we will soften the whole skin with Filter effect.

Click above on Filter, Blur and select Surface Blur...

In a new window set the values like I did and press OK.

The whole picture just got smoother, but we don't want everything to be "smoothened". So we will remove the unwanted smoothness.

Select Eraser Tool (shortcut is key E).

Set the Opacity 85% to reduce the Eraser's Tool power.

Right click on document and select random size of Eraser Tool and Hardness 0% (check the pic).

Erase the parts of unwanted smoothened skin, like hair, eyes, eyebrows etc ...

We are finished.

Comparison image from the beginning.