Photoshop Tutorial: How to Remove Wrinkles

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Remove Wrinkles?



I love Photoshop for a variety of reasons. The main thing is that you can basically do anything to a photo. You can edit anything you want out of a photo and add anything you want in. Photoshop is just a hugely versatile program. You can edit basically any picture too. You can edit pictures of people, landscapes, objects, just about anything. One other great thing is that there are many ways to do one thing. So if you feel more comfortable working with one tool than another, just use that tool.
When you're working with pictures of people, there are a lot of different things you can change on the photo. You can change hair color, eye color, remove blemishes and wrinkles, and much, much more. In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to remove wrinkles on a picture of a person. This is what many glamour magazines do when they retouch photos of models and celebrities. So why shouldn't anyone be able to do it?

In this tutorial, we're going to use the Healing Brush Tool. This technique is relatively simply and can work on either small, almost unnoticeable wrinkles, or on large, deep wrinkles. In order for this tutorial to work properly, make sure you have a photo of yourself or someone else with noticeable wrinkles. The wrinkles can be around the eyes, the mouth, or on the cheeks. Just about anywhere will work for the sake of this tutorial. I found my photo of morguefile.com. Both sxc.hu and morguefile.com are great places to find free photos of just about anything.

So let's begin!

Step 1) Select your image by going to File > Open and searching for your picture the way you would search for a document.

Step 2) Make sure your image is flattened completely before you start, otherwise you'll have too many layers. This is usually only a concern when you copy and paste a picture off the internet though. Simply press CTRL + E on your keyboard to merge the layers.

Step 3) Since you never want to work on the original photo, make a copy or a duplicate layer by going to Layer > Duplicate Layer. You will now have two identical layers of your photo on the Layers drop down menu box on the right hand side of your screen.

Step 4) Zoom into the area you want to work on first using the magnifying tool on the vertical menu bar.

Step 5) Open the Healing Brush Tool by clicking the hotkey "J" on your keyboard. In order for the Healing Brush Tool to work, you will need to find a nearby area next to the wrinkle you want to get rid of. This area you choose should not have a wrinkle on it and should just be flat skin.

Step 6) Click the ALT key on your keyboard and go over this chosen area (the one that doesn't have any wrinkles.)

Step 7) Now paint over the wrinkle. This will cover up the area with a flesh tone color and once you lift your key up, the wrinkle will be gone.

Step 8) Repeat steps 6-7 on every wrinkle you want to get rid of.

Then you're done. And you have a wrinkle-free face! Talk about quick and easy too!