Editing faces in photoshop

The trick is to be subtle.

Get a picture of someones face and use the quick selection tool to highlight the head from the inside. and click the refine edge tool at the top

Tick the smart radious box and take that right up and change the smooth and feather until the image looks smooth and natural.

Make a new document and drag over the image you have cropped out. On a new layer give the image a gradiant background.

Now shift click both layers and press ctrl E to merge the two layers. Use ctrl J to make a copy and make a new layer in between the to layers.

In colour picker use the tool to select a skin colour from the face then hide the top layer and use the fill tool to fill the middle layer with the skin colour.

Select the top layer and select the healing brush tool. ALT click with the healing brush tool on the middle layer then show the top layer again. Use the healing tool to touch up a few details on the face but not too much. On the top layer use the eraser at 15% opacity to touch up a few mor details.

Now get rid of the middle layer and merge the two left.

Then use ctrl J to copy the layers two more times. On the middle layer use filter - gaussian blur and bring it up to between 6 and 10. On the top layer change the opacity to 75%.

Now the image will look great.