Flawless 1-Min Skin Retouch Action in Photoshop!

Summary by Krater

The video demonstrates a quick skin retouching technique in Photoshop 2025 using a combination of median blur, noise, and high pass filters on separate color and texture layers, and shows how to record this workflow as a reusable Photoshop action.

From the video

Answers: How do I quickly retouch skin in Photoshop without plugins?

• skin retouching in Photoshop
• frequency separation alternative
• median blur skin smoothing
• overlay noise for skin texture
• recording Photoshop actions

What it concludes

• A new skin texture can be created in Photoshop using a median blur on a color layer and added noise with a Gaussian blur on an overlay layer.
• Recording the retouching steps into a Photoshop action allows applying the entire skin retouch with a single keyboard shortcut.
• Adjusting the underlying layer blend if-grey sliders allows targeting the retouching away from pure highlights and deep shadows.