I'm a couple days late for this to be a weekend recipe (oops!) but I'll go ahead and post it anyways ;)
Today, I will be taking this photo from this:
To this:
Ingredients:
Photoshop CS4
Steps:
First, I used
Keri Meyers action 'Take the Red Out' and adjusted the opacity to 75%
He had a sore on the tip of his nose so I used my patch tool to get rid of it
Then I used the spot healing brush to remove all the little blemishes on his cheeks (and anywhere else I saw them)
I then went through all the steps of my skin smoothing tutorial found
here and adjusted the opacity to 50%
To make the photo pop a little bit, I ran
Florabella's Classic Color from the Classic Workflow collection and adjusted the opacity to 40%
Now, you could be done here, but I like to add a bit of extra softness by running
Florabella's Milk action from the Luxe II collection. I adjust the layers as such: turn off the warm haze layer, turn of the more haze layer, pure milk (5-7%), tone (10%), contrast (10%), lighten (10%)
and wah-la! All finished :)
If you try this recipe out, please share a link in the comment section below! I'd love to see :)