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Useless results!
All Texture Lost
Smoothing is one thing. Here you have eliminated all texture. This is akin to using a Gaussian Blur of about 3.5. I have used Photoshop since 1990 and I usually find your articles useful. This one is way off the mark, however.
smoothing face
It is a super idea but its so blurry. I understand about the history brush, but would it help the blurriness and glow around the edges of face? sincerely, Jan
OK, OK!
I agree that the results don't look quite as nice as I'd hoped. It is interesting that this article came to us from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), sponsors of PhotoshopWorld, Their stuff is usually reliable, so not sure what happened here.
Pamela Pfiffner, editor in chief
is it me?
or does the finished article look truly dreadful?
This is ok, but better ways to do it...
Too many steps! Try this:
1) Gaussian Blur @ about 4 (will depend on your file size)
2) Take snapshot
3) Edit>Undo Blur
4) Ctrl/CMD Y (history brush)
5) Make snapshot (blurred state)active
6) Set opacity of brush to approx 20%
7) Simply paint, avoiding eyes & lips--where ever you paint will be soft. Want it softer? Paint more or change opacity.
Steve Bohne
Poor results
This technique provides poor results for skin tones, however, there may be other applications better suited than "smoothing skin" for this technique.
Wrong timing?
Maybe it's an April Fool that went in too early...
What A Waste of Time
First of all, the retouched photo in your article looks awful. Why bother with the Healing Brush if the results look like you just Blurred the heck out of the image.
Second, I followed your instructions step by step, and my image looked worse than awful. Perhaps your tutorial needs some refinement.
A Photoshop user since 1995.
What a mess
If that's a good example of 'after' this technique I don't think I'll bother using it. Looks like badly applied make-up. Let's see something that actually looks good.