How do you get skin to look like this?

A member on here posted some images that made me question how one would get a texture like this.
http://www.flickr.com/​photos/ddbias/84785571​26/

The pores and everything just look flawless and even across the face. I can sit her and remove every single blemish and sharpen... but I never get close to this.

Can someone please share what the technique is? I have searched and was not able to find much on this.

Thank you!

Surface blur and then add some noise with a layer mask to add it only to the skin. IMHO it is way over done and not natural looking.

I'd like to see the sooc on that one, skin looks real good, but not too perfect, or plastic.

Skin smoothing tool in Lightroom, or any combination of blur tools in PS. Honestly to me this looks way over processes and very "doll like".

Probably just a plug in, it doesn't look entirely natural to me either. I believe onone's "perfect portrait" has an "add texture" stage which will do this. Push one button for skin smoothing, then another to add that texture. A little tweaking to settings to mix to taste, and you're done in minutes.

Doesn't look good at all

This forum has become a dangerous place to ask "skin" questions. Go to the retouching forum at ModelMahem. That site is the holy grail of skin work. Start browsing the archives, follow links to various YouTube videos.

http://www.modelmayhem​.com/t.php?forum_id=18

Anybody can browse, but you have to sign up for a free account to post questions.

Thank you!

Axeman747 wrote in post #15680787
Surface blur and then add some noise with a layer mask to add it only to the skin. IMHO it is way over done and not natural looking.

Yup, agree, looks like texture was painted on that shot.

A bit better way: http://retouchpro.com/​tutorials/?m=show&id=2​13

If you want to take the time to do it manually: https://photography-on-the.net …p?p=10859189#po​st10859189