Retouching baby skin

cathm · February 21, 2016

Hi! I am wondering what's the best way to retouch this baby's skin.

Thank you in advance for your help.

**Damien Symonds** · February 21, 2016

Oh gee Cath, your file is untagged. Did you save it using Save As, or Save for web?

cathm · February 22, 2016

I saved it as save for web. Will try again! Hope it works this time!

**Damien Symonds** · February 22, 2016

No, it's still untagged. You mustn't have the "Embed Color Profile" box checked.

cathm · February 22, 2016

I do not have it checked when i saved as web.

**Damien Symonds** · February 22, 2016

I know you don't! That's a MASSIVE problem.

cathm · February 22, 2016

How about Professive and Optimized?

I have Optimized and convert to sRGB checked

**Damien Symonds** · February 22, 2016

Don't worry about either Progressive or Optimized.

Convert to sRGB is good, but of course shouldn't be necessary, because your files should already be sRGB.

cathm · February 22, 2016

so, nothing should be checked then?

**Damien Symonds** · February 22, 2016

"Convert to sRGB" and "Embed Color Profile" must be checked, always.

cathm · February 22, 2016

Trying again.. hope it works this time!

**Damien Symonds** · February 22, 2016

Try Dust & Scratches filter at 15/5 and see what you think.

cathm · February 22, 2016

It blurs the skin but the red spots are everywhere....

**Damien Symonds** · February 22, 2016

May I see?

**Damien Symonds** · February 22, 2016

Essentially, the D&S filter is a way of shortcutting the first part of this method.

Now you can do the second part - the Hue/Saturation layer.

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