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

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

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

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.

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

Very useful Colin. Thanks

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

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

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

Very useful as always.

Wonderful idea

very good!

Fabulous. Very useful

Awesome! That is amazing!

Perfect

Nice work sir 👍

Good video thanks

Useful thank you :)

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?

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

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 :-)

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

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I still dont see why frequency seperation doesnt work.

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

Dab on them textures!