How to Mitigate Scars Using a Mask and the Spot Healing Brush

As many of you know, I teach a series of classes focusing on the photography of women. In the Photoshop class, I’ve begun to augment my live-only presentation with a series of screencast videos explaining the core concepts. Why? So I know for sure that none of those core concepts were missed! Moreover, I can give the students access to these videos for some period of time after the class, thereby enhancing their learning experience. The accompanying video is an example. It begins…

If you’ve read some of the early posts on my blog then you know that most of our clients are women who’ve been married several years, have had one or more children, and in many cases have elected to have cosmetic surgery. As a result, they’re often left with scars. And in almost every case, they want me to either eliminate, or at the very least, mitigate those scars in the final photograph. So over time, I’ve had to develop simple yet effective ways for doing this. I’d like to share one with you today.