HOW TO MAKE PHOTOS LOOK LIKE THIS?

[Guest]

How would you achieve this sort of smoothing effect in Photoshop? I am positive this image was made in Photoshop. The Stylize filters don't seem to be the answer, and I'm wondering if it's perhaps an indie filter? Thank you for all the answers.

[Mohit Goyal]

Hi blixn,

You may refer the below tutorials and see if that helps.

Photoshop Compositing & Manipulation | Smooth light Photo Effects - YouTube

Photoshop Tutorial : Manipulation Smooth Skin Retouching - YouTube

Regards,

Mohit

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Can you post an image (or a lores version thereof) of yours you want to edit thusly?

[Trevor.Dennis]

Are you looking for a one click fix for this?  All of these so called 'looks' can be aproximated just using the available tools with Photoshop, but the original image will play a big part.  As c.p. has asked, so us a an image that you want to mess up ​ apply this look to to, and I am sure someone will show you the way.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

[Guest]

It wasn't necessarily a particular picture I was looking to do this to, just a skill I wanted under my belt purely because of how good it looked. Thank you for the directives, so just using a combination of gaussian blur (and gradient map/curves). I think this is certainly part of it, I'm not quite sure if it's all though (maybe using Topaz Clean?). I don't know, but thank you!

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

The skin may gave been cleaned up additionally in particular but I doubt that needs any non-default Photoshop filters.

When viewing an image it may simply not be possible to determine which exact operations have been performed on it, even if one could compare it to the unedited image.

In this case there are various things one can choose to emulate (or not) – the colors, the contrasts, the sharpness or lack thereof, the composition, … and it can make a huge difference which image one edits to emulate the appearance. (edited)

[Guest]

Alright, it seems like you're right. Thank you!