How to remove shadows from a face in Photoshop

Learn how to remove shadows from a face. In this Photoshop tutorial, Colin Smith shows you how to remove difficult shadows from a face in Photoshop. This is a retouching technique everyone needs to know.
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[@photoshopcafe]

written steps that show 2 ways: photoshopcafe.com/remove-harsh-shadows-face-photoshop/

[@arthurmorgan5937]

Thank you. I find that simple and effective techniques like this are much easier to learn than complicated high end professional techniques.

[@christopherhand3941]

Awesome! That is amazing!

[@michaelcohen6177]

Very useful Colin. Thanks

[@amitabhmukherjee4954]

Wonderful idea

[@Nejims]

super helpful. I am new to photoshop and did a photoshoot over the weekend with load of shadows on the background. This has helped me clean out the background.

[@doloresknox5346]

Flipping the clone stamp - that's gold. I love picking up on all these little tips that help so much. Thanks.

[@cnicolo]

Useful thank you :)

[@patv3255]

Fabulous. Very useful

[@alexandrugrecov8964]

Very useful as always.

[@adsmithtx]

nice procedure. one of the best I have seen!!

[@SvenErikKnoff]

Thank you, Colin. This was very helpful. Your channel and step-by-step-videos are superhelpful.

[@EDITSCHOOL]

Perfect

[@bobrutan4735]

very good!

[@jessiegibson9023]

Good video thanks

[@Blemiz]

Thank you!! This fixed a major problem I was having

[@salespsd]

Nice tutorial brow, i help me a lot!!!!

[@karunnaidu5060]

Nice work sir 👍

[@joen5000]

I think that this feature can be nearly fully made AI-based with some refinements and it would save users a lot of time.
AI can recognize mirrored objects, in this case the other side of the face and made to mirror it automatically and add some noise so it won't be totally symmetrical, but would still be of very high quality and surely much better than the manual method you describe here.
It is surely not intuitive to make it AI-based and programmers would also need to keep some manual adjustments for the users, for example in non-clear cases, to let the AI know where the other side to be flipped or upon which area it should base the information is takes or considers. But that is surely possible
Lemogan

[@genevievelaurin3860]

Very interesting and useful technique, but I'm curious to know why you chose to do it this way rather than using the "color" layer blending mode. Wouldn't that have solved the problem of losing the texture when the color was applied on the top layer?

[@photoshopcafe]

If that were the case, Frequency separation would have worked. The problem is in both the tone and the color, so color wouldn't fix it.

[@gooseneckful]

Personally i would have done that in frequency separation. That would have kept the details intact. Same results would have been achieved by working on color layer ! Adding two layers between the color and texture layers, one in color blending mode and the other in luminosity blending mode for sample on skin. Small dodge and burn curves, and that's it ! Every one have their methods of course :-)

[@photoshopcafe]

Wherever works is best. Besides I've already done tuts on FS, I don;'t want to do the same lessons over and over.
(I also think FS is waaaay overrated and overused).

[@BobG-eh5fc]

Thanks!!, but why not just clone/mirror in first step, rather than copy color, then clone/mirror again?

[@photoshopcafe]

If you watched the video, I said exactly why not: because then the tones and lighting would be the same on both sides, this is more natural

[@photoshopcafe]

But I show that option too in the written steps

[@avnerbenzvi8757]

TH-cam stopped sending Notifications by Email !!

[@photoshopcafe]

yeah, new change ;( How many of you get the notifications normally?

[@alexandrugrecov8964]

@@photoshopcafe Not notifications for me also.

[@rosadoric615]

I still dont see why frequency seperation doesnt work.

[@photoshopcafe]

Because the shadows are too strong and don't get fully seperatedin the color layer.

[@dantheman2907]

Dab on them textures!

[@photoshopcafe]

lol

[@doveparadise937]

I lmao too! 😂

[@JohnBerthoty]

Why not zoom in a bit, at least so we could see it happen. Maddening.

[@photoshopcafe]

Sorry, I made some written steps with closer up shots photoshopcafe.com/remove-harsh-shadows-face-photoshop/