How To Easily Retouch Skin in Lightroom (Hidden Skin Smoothing Brush)

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Learn how to smooth skin and remove blemishes from a photo in Lightroom with this step by step tutorial on how to retouch skin in the program. With these techniques you'll learn how to use the healing brush to get better blemish removal results in Lightroom, while better understanding the difference between the clone and heal settings. From there I share a hidden skin smoothing brush effect in Lightroom to automatically soften skin and make your photos look like they've been high-end retouched in seconds. Now you don't need to spend hours of time in Photoshop and won't feel exhausted editing your portraits in Lightroom!
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Timestamps
0:00 Blemish Removal In Lightroom
4:02 Skin Softening In Lightroom
5:40 Refining Skin Softening Adjustments

[@Kfortch]

Any chance you're going to do an updated one for Lightroom 2023? Seems like the effects/options have changed :/

[@MargaritaMeyers]

This is priceless!!! Thank you so much, Brendan!

[@sharonvetalice1370]

Thank you, Brendan! This tutorial is appreciated so much as it taught me something new...the hidden brush effects. Thanks!

[@glamcamkc]

Holy cow. Perfect tutorial. Thank you!

[@photogirl6318]

Thank you! Very helpful, clear and detailed

[@yodalirivera7775]

This was super helpful!! Thank you!

[@valentinacrawford9228]

This was so helpful thank you! 😊

[@hiteshbhavsar3429]

Thank you! So helpful.

[@photographybya7602]

Amazing! Thank you so much.

[@gomezgladbak]

thanks so much! super helpful.

[@ckornreich]

Thank you! So helpful. And your instruction is so easy to follow. What to do if you have a large file with skin acne? In this instance, the subjects portrait is not in the same setting (or has moved) so syncing adjustments would not match up. I shoot outdoors and children move around. Thank you again!

[@iamBede]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@guyguerra]

Totally Helpful. Thanks

[@serduvelo]

awesome..after all this time I didn't know about the effects options..

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Right? It is super easy to miss

[@calvindavis7753]

Amazing video very well explained

[@kaleighmorrison6216]

I don’t have effects under my brush tool….is this something I need to buy or download? Thank yoy

[@nadiyah9784]

thank you so much

[@orionorion2405]

Excellent !

[@mcoschiedam]

ThankUUU!

[@JustJustyna76]

Thank you!!!

[@cosy_challange]

thank you!

[@mrsleannejh]

Thankyou!

[@59jll]

Thanks!

[@thilinaalagiyawanna3680]

Thank you very much

[@SidneyPratt]

Thanks.

[@ilikepho.]

I am new to here and would love to learn more.

[@CarmenVillacis-ez8jk]

is there something I should be clicking for the changes to happen? I click on heal select the spot I want to remove and I get the other bubble but then what am I suppose to click for the spot to be removed? I've watched several videos, they all show you how to remove a spot but don't mention what to click for after you select what you want removed.

[@ravong007]

Good Video

[@JohnThao]

Which LR version do you use?

[@bobobravo5727]

Hello Williams, on my lightroom the icon Brush .....clone/heal does not appear. can you help me on this.

[@TheCupfulBoy]

I don't have soften skin option in Effect..nor my Effect section doesn't have that drop down window

[@dcamithkumar8052]

what machine are you using ?

[@nocturnalhours_]

I have LR cc. I'm trying to smooth out new born baby feet (skin dry and cracky) On my version, rather than "Effects" it shows "Mask 1" and a "Preset" drop down where it than has "Smooth skin" listed. When I press on that, it somewhat works. However I am unable to brush over the skin myself for further touches. It also resets all of my sliders. Can anyone help with this?

[@brendansmith3851]

Same boat as you. It barely makes a difference

[@themacclan]

I was following and then couldn’t find effects. I’m using Lightroom Classic

[@jirkadolezal8127]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@morespinach9832]

In Lightroom "Classic", you mean.

[@mattmcfaul3358]

poop on a stick :-/ I was hoping there was a better way. removing 5k blackheads from dozens of photos is crazy time consuming...don't they have an A.I. plug in for this yet?

[@user-oy5qw6bn1c]

Thank you so much sir, you're the best🥹🤩