Removing veins from legs

Hey everyone, first timer here, I was wondering if anyone had any tips for working with "veiny legs" I have to retouch a batch of pictures and it was clear they where missing some lights at the studio, i´ve gotten some progress with light and cloning but there really isn´t much space to clone from. any tips would be greatly appreciated!

the image below is after some retouching, and the image above the original.

Edit: im working with photoshop CC 2020 and lightroom for the inicial "reveal"

I've had good success with this. Just don't go too close to the edges, is all.

I wonder if the history brush method of softening skin would come in handy here?

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=tBAC9bC-XBQ

I ran Surface Blur on the red and green channels (radius 12, threshold 15), then added noise on a 50% gray fill layer in Soft Light mode. Used layer masks to confine these edits to the legs.

I tried copying the image and kept getting a weird color cast. If I tried to save, it showed up as a .duck file and wouldn't open. How did you both do it?

Thanks.

D Thompson wrote in post #19186993
I tried copying the image and kept getting a weird color cast. If I tried to save, it showed up as a .duck file and wouldn't open. How did you both do it?

I just used "Save as." It's a jpeg image.

Peano wrote in post #19186996
='Peano;19186996]I just used "Save as." It's a jpeg image.

That doesn't work for me. I need to see what has changed. I'm using Chrome and changed my browser to duckduckgo.com a week or so ago. I used to be able to do it like you did, now it saves as a .duck file and download a folder of files. Something got changed somewhere in my browser. Thanks!

Pekka serves the images as duck file extensions, just rename your downloaded file to have a .jpg suffix.

He chose duck because that is the defacto bird we always seem to shoot with new gear.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #19187059
Pekka serves the images as duck file extensions, just rename your downloaded file to have a .jpg suffix.

When I do that I get the weird color cast.

D Thompson wrote in post #19187054
That doesn't work for me. I need to see what has changed. I'm using Chrome and changed my browser to duckduckgo.com a week or so ago. I used to be able to do it like you did, now it saves as a .duck file and download a folder of files. Something got changed somewhere in my browser. Thanks!

Just wondering: If you right-click on the image, does your context menu have a "View page info" option? If so, click that and then the "Media" tab. Is the jpeg image in the "Address" list?

D Thompson wrote in post #19187062
When I do that I get the weird color cast.

Renaming the file doesn't change the image content at all. When you save image as <whatever>.duck, it is really a jpg image you are saving.

Peano wrote in post #19187096
='Peano;19187096]Just wondering: If you right-click on the image, does your context menu have a "View page info" option? If so, click that and then the "Media" tab. Is the jpeg image in the "Address" list?

No, I get "Page Info" that shows all the html, no tabs at top. I can save the image now, but it still has the color cast that I showed a few posts ago. Tried a few other images and they show fine. Oh well. OP has seen what you all can do with it, so it's all good.

Thanks for all the help!

D Thompson wrote in post #19187111
No, I get "Page Info" that shows all the html, no tabs at top. I can save the image now, but it still has the color cast that I showed a few posts ago. Tried a few other images and they show fine. Oh well. OP has seen what you all can do with it, so it's all good.

Thanks for all the help!

It's probably because when the OP saved the image it was saved with a profile of 'Display' instead of sRGB.

Decreased fine contrast and added some surface blur to masked legs.