Erasing Layered Areas in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Gary for Expert Village. If we leave the eyes and the mouth, those areas are going to become blurred as well, so I really don't want to do that. Now we see that the edge of the circle I click whatever it's touching is basically what's being erased. So just to give you a feel how this tool works. Now I have the, I erased most of the hair over here and it's important to really try and get as much as you can of a single location on the face because if we leave some of the hair and we erase the other parts of the hair, that hair that's left is going to become blurred and it'll be in contrast to the regular parts of the hair. So you really just want to make sure you get close enough. Now I'm going to make my brush size smaller and that will let me go around areas around the eye and around the eyebrows too. Because if we apply the blur affect to the eyebrows, we'll see that it'll be very noticeable when those are blurred out. And I'm going to go around here. Again, I don't have to be so careful about the edges because there's not so much in one particular area that is going to make a big difference. As long as I get the main areas where the acne is showing up, where I want to correct, that's the most important part. Now these dark areas under the nostrils, when those become blurred, being that they have a darkish color to them, they are going to be noticeable and it will look like a smudge mark. So I don't want those, that part of the face to be blurred. So I'm actually just going to remove the end of the nose here. Now there are some areas I do want to correct, so I got to be careful not to erase anything that would not let me take care of all those red blotches that we see. And I'm also going to do the mouth obviously, because that would be very noticeable if we did not erase it because once it gets blurred it'll also look like a very big smudge mark in the middle. And basically that's really what I'm left with. I took out most the areas of the skin that would be affected by the blur affect and that would, might distort the image. So, that's really what I'm left with, these skin areas that are going to be blurred out and that will give us a nice smooth affect. And then will put it back onto the image. And then we'll see that the image itself will really be, give this guy a real makeover."