[Kaveh Kamgar]

I have looked at plugins and stuff. I also reviewed posts made before on the forum involving grain removal, various kinds of blurring, etc. There must be some subtle detail work at the very least going through high end production houses that deals with really fine cleanup when necessary. I’d like to see it not actually feel retouched. Say bring out the color of the eyes a little, soften under eye bags slightly, clone out little things, and reduce things like facial fuzz, stray hairs, or rough skin/cellulite. I don’t mean obliterate them so much as just tone them down a bit so that the skin doesn’t need to receive overall softening from a filter based adjustment.

It may just end up being a lot of experimentation but would anyone happen to know of any other software that would be better for this? I thought of after effects because it integrates well with recent versions of photoshop and has a lot of similar painting tools. To me it looks kind of funky when the image is sharp and just the skin looks blurred. I imagine the grain removal idea might come out a bit more natural but I’d like it to be subtle enough to where no one can tell it was touched up.