how do you remove skin wrinkles under a model's eyes ?

how do you remove skin wrinkles under a model's eyes ?

Do you use clone tool ?

or

photoshop has tool to remove wrinkles ?

I take it you are talking Lightroom

The adjustment brush>>clarity will remove some winkles. You may need several brushes.

Reduced clarity will soften the whole image

I find Photoshop cloning tool best for removing wrinkles

clone tool - Photoshop using tablet with opacity set to stylus pressure

Whoops. i thought I was still the Lightroom stuff

Cloning tool in PS is the best for me. Lots of light soft passes is usually best.

thanks for the tip guys.

myriad of ways, maybe you can post a sample pic that we can all work on.....

you can use the clone tool or even a normal brush with a color picker. you can also dodge and burn.

something to note is that wrinkles have a lit side and a shadow side, so if you want to remove the wrinkle you can localize your retouch to the shadow side...you have to zoom way in there and work at that level....the nice thing about that procedure is that you dont retouch a big big chunk of the original picture but rather just a few pixels to help in the blending of the result which obviously results in a more believable edit.

Zoom way in on the area with the wrinkles. Try the clone tool with a very small, soft brush. The brush should be just a little larger than the wrinkle is wide.

Decide how good a job you want to do. Set the opacity very low, around 20-30 % if you have the time and motivation. Make multiple passes over the wrinkle. The lower the opacity, the longer it takes but the better the result.

As described above, but put a blank layer above your background layer and name it "Clone" Do all of your work on this layer. If you're unhappy with a spot you have changed, all you have to do is erase that spot on the clone layer and try again.

For small areas you might want to try the healing brush. You don't have as much control but if you're not familiar with the clone tool, you may get better results.

What is your Photoshop version?
@ (C)PS 5 you have 'Content Aware Auto-Fill'

I have both light room 3.2 and CS5

picard wrote in post #10986846
I have both light room 3.2 and CS5

Even with older versions of CSx Picard - I have CS3 - you can easily clone and smooth out wrinkles, shadows under the eyes, etc. very quickly in just a couple of steps. The real art is to do it in a way that looks natural on people.

When I did my first "wrinkle removals" it looked a bit to smooth and perfect. The average individual does not have perfect facial features and there is always some minor line or crease. So I would do partial removals that improved the overall look, but did not look unnatural on the face of a somebody like a 50 year old woman for example. It takes practice and sensitivity to the client with whom you are working.

The fact is there is no one size fits all situations tool. More than likely it will require a combination of of tools to get the best results. Patch-heal-clone-paint brush, noise, gaussian blur, etc.

In Lightroom, zoom in and use the Dodge local adjustment brush!

Patch tool

rockfordhx wrote in post #10988584
Patch tool

where is the patch tool ?