Photoshop: soften skin effect 3

In order to make the skin looks very smooth and nature, I usually use the "Surface Blur" and "Patch Tool". But in some cases... These two tools might not able to fix the extremely terriable problem on the face ... like more than 50% are full of pimple, freckle and mole. Therefore, I will use another ways to fix this problems

After edited.	Originally her skin is not really good

Remeber to duplicate a layer from the original pic at the very beginning.


Step 1:
Select the area of face, you may use Lasso Tool, Quick Selection Tool or Pen Tool, whatever you like. Except the eyes and mouth.

Step 2:
Duplicate the selected area

Step 3:
Apply the Gaussian Blur to the "face" layer. For the Radius value, increase the pixels until you cannot see the pimples. (Do not assign the value too high, otherwise the skin shape and lighting will look fake.

Step 4:
Open the History panel and highlight the last step. Then use the History Brush Tools to select the Gaussian Blur step.

Step 5:
Go back to the face layer and brush the skin.