Pimple redux, how did I do?

[Phot]

My goal here was a simple reduction that doesn't draw to the pimples. I didn't want to create a completely false image, but rather make the bump look like it was part of my natural skin. This was done by playing with the Hue-Saturation in Gimp. Basically I increased lightness, reduced red, and increase blue.

If you have suggestions on how to do this better, it's welcome. Please keep in mind I have Gimp and not willing to purchase in programs

 

[Derrel]

How do the lips look after desaturating the reds?

 

[Phot]

How do the lips look after desaturating the reds?

This was done entirely with a free select tool. The lips remain unchanged along wit the rest of the image.

 

[Phot]

Of course now that I am looking on YouTube vids I see there might be a much better way. Here I used the healing tool, then went over it again with the Hue-Saturation tool. Maybe I am ok with getting rid of the pimple completely, lol.

 

[frommrstomommy]

I would get rid of it. Lol seriously though, my rule is generally to remove anything non permanent as far as skin "imperfections" go. The only time I don't entirely remove pimples is basically if they prefer I don't, or have such bad skin that it is way over the top to remove then all.. and end up with a totally fake image. (Unless of course they want them all gone)

 

[jovince3000]

Just a tiny heads up, if you do that for a client, you might want to TELL them you're actually going to do it so they don't end up surprised. I learned that the hard way when I started.

Also, it's not fake, it's "enhanced"

If you do not want to completely remove them, I do not know what the procedure is in gimp, but in photoshop, you create a new layer, select spot healing tool, select -Sample all layer- option, go over what you want to remove, reduce opacity of the layer.

I'm guessing it is somewhat similar in gimp.