How to smooth out skin on just the neck, not the face.

[Joseph Owens]

Fairly typical cosmetic fix…

There are a ton of *area isolation* tutorials available. You will probably use a roto-mask. In your case you will probably have to do an X-Y translation track, possibly incorporating a bit of rotation. In any case, if you are using a Full (paid, not free) license of Resolve, a blur, mist, or skin FX plugin (which is a more selective , face-tracking blur which doesn’t need its own mask) applied inside the roto will get you where you want to go.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Nigel,

Adding to Joseph’s excellent comments, it might be worth you looking up Davinci v21 retouching, there is new tools currently in beta.

All the Best
Mads

[Nigel Cooper]

Joseph, thanks for this, but that went right over my head. I’m no expert, can just cut up clips and export, that’s about it. Anybody point me to a YouTube tutorial? I’ve searched all over YouTube, but all I can find is ‘skin smoothing for face’ videos, nothing that does neck or tracks movement of neck at the same time.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Nigel,

Without seeing the actual shot, it is near impossible to give advice for your specific issue.

The short version is that you need to isolate (add a mask) to the area that you want to change.
Magic Mask is a good place to start.

If you search for “Davinci magic mask neck”, you will get different results.

But Mr Alex Tech has this video that might answer your request:
https://youtu.be/UB7mOG9eNxg?si=-tpjtqsVwsdfSyg9

After sorting out the mask, it becomes a question of how you want to “smooth” the skin.

Hope that this helps?

Atb
Mads

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