Mastering Skin Texture: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Flawless Results in Photoshop

Here I am going to guide you to How to Apply Skin Texture in Photoshop. It will definitely help you to edit your Picture like a Professional Editor.

Pro Skin Texture 

How to Apply Skin Texture in PhotoShop Follow these steps 

There are some steps for applying Skin Texture in Photoshop. 

1st Step : Create a new Document

The first thing you want to do is create a new document in Photoshop. This document size must be 128 × 128 pixels. The resolution must 72 pixels/inch. 

The color mode must be RGB with 8 bits. 8 bits is very important because the filter we are going to use is work with 8 bits only. 

Then under background section select custom and then select 50% gray color. 

Then click on the create button and then you will get a small square document. 

2nd Step : Apply Texturizer Filter

After creating a new document you have to apply Texturizer filter to the new document. 

1 Go to the Filter Menu and choose Filter Gallery 

2 Then click on Texture at the bottom and then select Texturizer Filter. 

3 Then under the texture dropdown you have to select Sandstone. 

4 Select scale 100% and relief between 5 to 10 as per your requirement. 

5 Then you have to select where your Light is coming from. Like Top left, etc. 

6 click on OK

3rd Step : Define your Skin Texture as a Pattern.

1 go to Edit 

2 choose Define Pattern

3 Name your pattern 

4th Step : Apply the Skin Texture 

After defining your skin texture as a pattern then go to your working document. 

1 Add a Adjustment layer icon and the select Pattern. 

2 Select the pattern that you created recently which will found at a bottom. 

3 Then the thing that you have to do is Apply the blending mode to the pattern. I suggest you to select Soft Light and Overlay. 

Then You will get the your image Texturized, but the tutorial is not end yet. Because the image will looks like a flat image. The texture applied to the image is similar at all side. That's why we need the Next Step. 

5th Step : Distort the Skin Texture with Liquify

1 To make your skin texture more realistic you just need to Rasterize the image by right clicking on the pattern layer. 

2 Then you will you will fill the grey area in the pattern layer select it. 

3 Then go to the Filters and choose Liquify from the list. 

4 Make sure your Backdrop is enabled. 

5 Use - All Layers 

6 Mode - Behind

7 Opacity - as per requirement. 

8 Then Use Brush to push and pull pixels to distort them. 

This will definitely help you to make your skin texture more Realistic. 

6th Step : Apply Blur Tool to Match depth fo Field.

After doing all the work you will find that the de focused area of the image is also sharpened. To make your skin texture more realistic you should use tool to blur the de focused area of the image.

1 Select the Blur Tool

2 strength - 50%

3 Brush at the dark area of the image.

 

Skin Texture 

7th Step : Selectively Apply the Skin Texture.

After doing all the steps mentioned above you will find that your skin texture is applied to whole image, background also. We need the texture only on our subject. 

1. At this moment you have a white layer mask, just right click on it and select invert or Press Control I or Command I if you use ios. Then the layer mask will turned into Black color.
2. Then you will find that the effect is no longer visible. Go to the Toolbar and select brush tool. Make sure your brush hardness is zero. 
3. Then just brush on your subject where you want to apply the skin texture. 

Skin texture in Photoshop is its most prominent feature. In traditional photography, this texture is created by tweaking the camera settings in a way that allows the light to diffuse across the subject. In modern photography, the texture is created in the software, and is most noticeable in images where the person, vehicle, or object is blurry and therefore less defined. These are also the most desirable images for social media sites, because the unique colors of skin can easily be altered to make the images look attractive to users.

Therefore, skin texture is a critical element that needs to be created in order to be presented to social media users for an image to make a final editing cut. The best way to do this is to go to Photoshop. When you open Photoshop, you should be able to see the first layer in the top left corner. In the background is the image that was originally created by Photoshop. Now it’s time to apply texture. For this example, I have created textures for people in each of the colors. I recommend that you spend the majority of your time creating textures for people with different skin tones, skin texture in Photoshop can make skin texture appear very natural.

How to Apply Texture

In Photoshop, to create textures for people you’ll need to do a couple of things. First, in the Background of the image, create a new layer.

Then in the Textured layer, locate the texture image and change it to Skin texture. This way, if the image is the same texture it will automatically overwrite the existing texture.

Now apply this texture texture to the background of the image. You can do this to all the images that you want to create texture for by using the first layer to add texture and then applying it to each of the layers in the top-left corner.

If you prefer to apply texture only on skin, you can do that too by adding the skin texture image as a background layer. In the Background layer, in the Background color, change it to Skin texture.

When you’re happy with the textures of your background image, apply the textures in the previous examples as layers to each of the layers in the top-left corner of the image. When you’re ready, click on the Adjustment Brush to fill in the texture of your skin texture. Be sure to apply it in the skin texture color of the layer below the skin texture, because skin texture in Photoshop is applied in the skin texture color.

Apply Skin Texture on Skin

The skin texture is applied to the skin texture layer of the image in Photoshop.

Using the texture layer to apply texture to skin gives a more realistic appearance to the skin. 

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