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Clean Skin, Real People: How Sean Tucker's 3-Step Method Changed How I Retouch Portraits
There’s a specific kind of dread that comes with opening a portrait file and knowing the skin needs work. Early in my retouching career, I leaned hard on every technique I could find, and the results looked exactly like what they were: over-processed, waxy, and unconvincing. A client once described my edits as “plastic-looking,” and honestly, she wasn’t wrong. That moment sent me down a long road of figuring out how to clean up skin without erasing the person underneath.