How to remove the Roughness Present on the Skin of a Picture and How to make it smooth using Photoshop

In this Adobe® Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to remove the roughness present on the skin and to make it smooth. This tutorial can also be extended to Photoshop CS2. This is well suited for intermediate users who have some basic knowledge over Photoshop. First open up an image. The next step is to remove the blemishes/pimples present on the skin. The tool that we're going to use to remove blemishes is the Healing Brush Tool which can be found in the tool bar: Now add a new layer by clicking on the Create a New Layer icon in the layers palette. Rename this layer by double clicking on its name in the layers palette and name it Blemishes.

With the Healing Brush Tool still selected, On the left we can see a black dot with a sharp edge; it means that the brush is going to have a hard edge (also called 100% hardness). Underneath we can see the size of the brush which is 19. More to the right we notice the selected Blending Mode for this brush.
The next option is called Source, for which we have two options; Sampled or Pattern. In most cases you will use the Sampled option, because quite often we want the new area to have the same texture as the area surrounding it. Pattern can be useful if you don't have any descent area in your image that you would like to use as your texture.

The Aligned option allows us to have a source area that follows our mouse cursor. The advantage of the option Aligned is that we always stay close to the area that needs to be corrected and that the texture resembles the texture we want to use for our correction. Notice that the option Use All Layer is selected. This means that the source area doesn't have to be on the same layer, in our case the Blemishes layer. It also means that the result of using the Healing Brush Tool will be placed on the active layer, which is in our case the Blemishes layer.

We're going to use a small brush size for our Healing Brush Tool so we select a value of about 20 px. We also want to have soft edges to avoid that our corrections are noticeable in the final image and that's why we're going to select a value of 0% for Hardness. The other settings have Photoshop's default values and don't need to be changed. If these values are different in your case then change them according to the values of the screenshot of the options bar.

Create in Photoshop a new layer on top of the Blemishes layer by clicking on the Create a New Layer icon . Rename this layer to Smooth Skin by double clicking on its name in the layers palette. Now use Median Filter option to smooth. Now go to the menu and selects Filter --> Noise --> Median.