heeeelp red splotch skin

[nick]

how do I go about fix this skin?? it's a mess:(

[Damien Symonds]

Hi Nick, may I see a 100% crop of the worst area?

[nick]

Absolutely, may take a bit as I need to get.my daughter.to bed.

[nick]

this is pretty much his whole body in all the pictures:(

 

[Damien Symonds]

First question, have you tried Frequency Separation?  I think it's ideal for this kind of thing.

[nick]

I haven't. I only have elements 14. is it possible on that? And if so, any good tutorials? I don't know the first thing about it

 

[Lara]

Yes, it's possible in Elements (including 14), but Damien doesn't have any tutorials on it.  You should be able to find quite a few tutorials via Google. 

[nick]

All the ones I've found are.great.until I get to the part where it says go to image then apply image. I don't.have an apply image. Any way around this?

[Damien Symonds]

Were you specifically googling for a tutorial for Elements?

[nick]

yes I was

 

[Damien Symonds]

Did you find this one?

[nick]

ok so funny, I relooked again. don't know what was different but that is the exact on I used. I think I did ok with it. I'm pretty new to ps so I had to google some things within it, but it seemed to work. I did it on an image that was even worse that that one. It's pretty complicated. thanks for taking the time to help me:) And again a thanks for the raw class. It was a game changer for me.

[Damien Symonds]

May we see the outcome?

[nick]

again, obviously not the same image, but same baby , same issues

[nick]

this is before

[Damien Symonds]

Looks fabulous, well done.

Just to check, you haven't cropped your PSD, have you?

[nick]

What do you mean

 

[Damien Symonds]

Your master file.  Your PSD.  You didn't crop it, did you?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/09/cropping-tutorial.html