how to do skin care with Gimp

Select the skin with Gimp's selection tool lasso. Do not select lips, eyes, hair, nipples and other areas that do not represent flat skin. Make the selection soft by using the Select > Feather dialog to avoid sharp stripes on the edge of your selection. I used a value of 9 px to make the selection in my image soft.

Copy and paste the selection of skin by pressing the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V keys successively. Verify the new skin layer by clicking on the layer button NEW in Gimp's layers dialog.

Blur the retouching skin layer with Filters > Blur > Selective Blur. I used a values of 3 px for Blur Radius and 100 for Max. Delta to blur the skin layer in my image smooth.

Set the layer mode of the retouching skin layer in the layers dialog to Lighten Only to retouch the underlying layer of the image. Duplicate the original layer, move the copy to the top of all layers. Set the layer mode of the moved layer to Saturation to keep the natural Saturation and color of the picture.

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