All right, I'm gonna drag the blue channel down. You know flesh has a lot of yellow in it. Why would the blue channel be better? Because yellow is light, pardon me, yellow is dark and lighter flesh color which has blue is light, so you're gonna get a little more contrast. Green channel, I can sorta see the freckles. You can go to your channels and look at the channels and say hey channels, which channel will let those freckles show the best? I'm trying to clear up the freckles, that's all I want to clear up. If this is way over your head, relax, relax. What are you gonna do with that? What you're gonna do with that, because you are happy channel pulling moddy fo-foes, we are gonna go to the channels. At this point, I have the black eyedropper available to me again and I have to click the color I want to change, and the color I want to change are those freckles. And now, at this point, this is in the handouts. It says, "Hey lady, do you want that to be your new target "as default?" No thank you, I do not. Not the color you're trying to change, the color you want, and that happens to be the lighter color over here on the edge. All right, once I am on the color picker, you want to pick the color you want. You go to the black eyedropper and you double click. You want to make sure you are on the curve, not the mask, but you are on the curve. Ladies and gentlemen, explained very clearly. Hopefully I'll get it right because I'm doing it very quickly. We're gonna try to do a curve very quickly for matching color, curve. Now on the more, when you blur that, you might want to add some contrast back in or lighten. You'd be amazed what you can get away with with just some paint. So please do not be afraid to try this out. I am effectively doing that, I'm not gonna say the brand name, but that lotion, Blur, with paint. There are actually lotions and makeup you can buy that blur, its called Blur, and the whole idea is it kind of blurs your skin and makes light bounce around your skin so that you can't see the nooks and crannies. All right, here is the other thing and I hope this makes sense a little bit about starting to get rid of freckles. What does that mean? That means when I have to deliver this file, I turn off that grain, I size that file to the size of that delivery, and then I grain it. Is that grain uniform for all different sizes? No sir, it is not and that's why it sits on the top and per application, the grain that is appropriate will get applied at point of delivery. Okay, so if you put that, is that uniform for both print and web, and all different kinds of sizes? Why worry about all that skin texture if you know you're putting some grain on the top, okay? Bob, I love the look on your face. So why not put that on the top because why we're, and I'll continue in one second. They just want a little tooth to 'em and I think it's a reference and resonance thing that we have with imagery, so that being said, all of my files go out with grain. So files that are too smooth, they have no grain. When you were children, some of you, you used to watch videos, soap operas on TV and do you remember how they looked cheap because they were video and they didn't have film grain? There is something about reference and resonance that we have that we associate grain and grittiness with quality, I don't know why. When I am retouching, my final files almost always have grain, they hide mask edges, it helps unify. So when I'm retouching, I generally have my final grain put on. In my world, my final destination, every file I retouch without fail gets noise put on the top, without fail, it's a unifier. One thing I feel at this point I really need to say, your final destination is always primo, right? Print, web, whatever. 10% opacity and you don't have to necessarily add skin texture because its not gonna show. That's nothing, it's just a light, tiny airbrush. If you paint, look how low that opacity is. You would be amazed what you can get away starting to paint and you don't have to add texture to it. You got a problem, you need to solve it, how do you do it? So we're not skin smoothing, but we're using the exact technique we used for skin smoothing and what I did is I sampled the color on the face and I just lightly painted. I'm just gonna repeat myself for one second because as I said earlier and I wasn't kidding, I really want you guys to be able to extrapolate to figure this out on your own. Do you remember how we painted earlier at the very beginning of the day for smoothing skin? We just painted. So what I will often start with is that paint layer. How to get rid of freckles is the conversation is the conversation we're having. Freckles, how do you get rid of freckles? Do you want to get rid of freckles is not the conversation we are having. I want to stress this image is not completely retouched.
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