Skin Retouching Trick... GENERATIVE FILL Photoshop!

In this Photoshop retouching tutorial, I'll show you a simple trick to retouch skin in Photoshop AI using the generative fill feature. This technique can make a significant difference in your portrait photos. To demonstrate, I've selected a stunning portrait photo with dimensions of 4000x6000 pixels.

To begin, open your image in Photoshop Beta since the generative fill feature is not available in the regular version. In the channels panel, add a new channel in black. Change the black color to a suitable shade of gray by pressing SHIFT+BACKSPACE and selecting "Color" with a brightness level of 40%.

Turn on the RGB channels, and then use the brush tool with black color to paint over areas like the eyes, nose, and mouth, preserving the facial features. Hold Ctrl or Command and click on the alpha 1 thumbnail to create a selection.

Hide the alpha 1 channel, select the RGB channel, and switch to the Layers tab. Click the generative fill button, leave the text prompt blank, and generate the results. Look for a face shape and skin tone that matches the desired outcome.

Lower the fill opacity to 65% or adjust to your preference. Invert the layer mask, use a white brush to reveal the new skin texture, and remove unwanted elements with the remove tool on a new layer.

To enhance the eyes, add a curves adjustment layer, brighten the image slightly, change the blending mode to "Color Dodge," and paint over the iris with a white brush. Adjust the layer opacity as desired.

Congratulations! The skin retouching process is complete. You can further enhance the image by adding makeup or other adjustments. Compare the before and after images to see the transformation.

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[edmundhayes]

Every one of your tutorials amazes me. You are a PS genius.

[pjp]

love the background music haha. Thank you

[Beauty.and.FashionPhotographer]

Amazing amazing ...just wow.... this is so great to have found this. Would there ne any trick to fix Midjourney portraits where the eyes are not real ? sometimes the iris doesn show or the eyes are not round... kind of things

[ErjonSopaj]

GENERATIVE FILL has been so great for other stuff but not yet for the portrait retouch, maybe to remove something or replace like earring, fix nails etc etc yes, but a skin retouch nahh, it's not there yet

[mohsinfareed]

Keep up the incredible work, and know that you have a fan for life. Wishing you continued success and many more exciting adventures on your channel particularly Phostosho and generative fill.

[pedrogarciacortes]

First of all, thank you very much for sharing your enormous knowledge and secondly, to tell you that Photoshop doesn't always let Photoshop with its generative fill do it because it violates the rules, is there a way to avoid that message? Thank you

[vincentnavea]

i followed both your AI skin smoothing tutorial but they all are not working

[TomaszProkop_FOTO]

I works well for some images but in most cases it useless. However this trick with 50% gray alpha mask is good !!!

[fgyxndr]

My subjects keeps changing to random people when I try and use. Any fix for this ?

[svytta]

which version of photoshop are you using? Im working with the version 24.3.0. for stability, but as far as i know, some options like this are still on the beta version. Is that the case?

[kentaylor]

followed you step by step and I get the violated guideline message. How about a video on avoiding this message, I seem to get them a lot

[ricardo.duran.cuellar]

Hi, friend. I don't know how to speak or write English. I am using google translate to write this comment. Thank you for your Photoshop videos so technical and of a good level. Please can you share the example image of this video? I went to your website and couldn't find it. Thank you.

[TamerRagheb]

I don't have the AI version, what should I do ??

[kelleycoleman]

Not really that helpful, if you have alot of time this can be done, but if not, this will waste a lot of your time just by retouching, anyway tnx for the vid