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STEP EIGHT: Next, let’s do the same thing with the wrinkles under his eyes. Here’s a side-by-side before and after of just painting over the forehead wrinkles and those few between the eyes. STEP SEVEN: Now you can continue on with this process of painting over wrinkles, and the tool will remember that 55% Opacity amount, so when you paint over the next row of wrinkles, they’re already at 55% Opacity. Here I lowered the Opacity to 55%, and now you can see the wrinkle is there, but it’s not nearly as intense or noticeable as it was before. The farther you drag to the left, the more the wrinkle returns. To do that, go to the Healing options panel and drag the Opacity slider to the left (as shown here), and as you do, it brings back the wrinkle. Well, our goal is ten years younger, not 40 years younger. STEP SIX: What we’re going to do is bring back part of the wrinkle, and when we do that, the wrinkle won’t be nearly as dark so that it won’t appear nearly as deep, and our subject won’t appear nearly as old. So, the wrinkle is gone, but completely removing it isn’t our goal it’s just to reduce its intensity, so we’ll fix that in the next step. STEP FIVE: When you release the mouse button, the wrinkle is gone (I did a side-by-side before/after here by pressing the letter Y so you could see the difference). It’s there in this image, but, as I said, it’s kind of hard to see, though you can see my cursor above his left eye on the right side of the wrinkle. It’s kind of hard to see in this particular image but, as you paint, you’ll see a thin white outline appear in the size of your brushstroke. STEP FOUR: Now you’re going to trace along that wrinkle, starting on the left side and painting all the way over to the right side of it. You can resize the brush using the Size slider in that panel you just saw in Step Two, the Left and Right Bracket keys on your keyboard ( ) or, if you have a two-button mouse, you can use the scroll wheel. STEP THREE: We’re going to start with the wrinkles on his forehead, so make your brush size just a little larger than the wrinkles you’re going to remove. When it reveals a panel with three healing tools, click on the one on the far left its icon looks like an eraser (as shown above). STEP TWO: In the toolbar below the Histogram, click on the Healing icon (it looks like a bandage). Click and drag to move the image around if necessary. You can do that by pressing Command-+ (PC: Ctrl-+) a few times until you’re zoomed in nice and close, as seen here. Now let’s zoom in tight on our subject’s face so we can clearly see the area we’re working on while we’re retouching. STEP ONE: After importing the image into Lightroom Classic, press D to jump to the Develop module (or, if you’re using Lightroom for the cloud, click the Edit button at the top-right side of the window).

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Note: You can download this same image for free from Adobe Stock and practice right along using it. So we’re going to look at making the wrinkles look less deep and less intense without removing them altogether, which would make our subject look obviously retouched and probably kind of weird-looking. With wrinkles, the darker the shadows appear, the deeper the wrinkles look, and the older our subject looks. Our goal when we retouch wrinkles is not to remove them but to reduce their intensity. This time around, we’re going to look at a very common retouch: reducing wrinkles and dark circles under the eyes.

It’s the fourth installment of our retouching column: last time, we looked at retouching teeth, and also wound up brightening the whites of the eyes.