The PowderPuff tool.
No really, what if you tried the burn tool?
The PowderPuff tool?
Now that was funny.
try the healing brush set to darken.
what works best for me is setting the opacity for the stamp/heal tool really low, like below 5%. (After you get the skin to about where you want it color wise). This gets rid of the uneven color.
Powder puff tool! Great enhancement for Photoshop 9.
Looks like I’m just gonna have to fool aoround with it. Thanks
Merzer
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Try this one (I’m writing it from memory, so I hope I have it all right):
1)Select the lasso tool. Set the Lasso feather option to 1 pixel. (this will help blend in your corrections later.)
2)Using the lasso, make a loose selection around the oily areas. Make sure to select "good skin tone" adjacent to the oily areas too, as you’re going to pick this up with the Clone stamp later.
2)Hold down the shift key to select multiple areas if necessary.
3)Go to the Layer menu and choose "New Layer via Copy," to place these selections on their own layer (right above the background layer). In the Layer pallette, select the new layer.
4)Select the Clone stamp tool. Select a soft brush type, approx 1/2 the size of the area you want to fix (or experiment w/size.
5)Set the Blend Mode for the Clone tool to Darken. You’ll have to experiment with the opacity setting depending on how much contrast there is between good and oily sections of skin.
6)Alt-click the Clone tool in a "good" area to sample it. Then paint over the oily area. Because the mode is set to Darken, the Clone tool will only effect pixels that are lighter than the sampled pixels. This eliminates over-correcting.
7) If necessary, reduce the opacity of the new layer (the one you’ve been painting on), until corrected areas blend in naturally.
This is kind of a combination of 2 suggestions above, but additional layer gives some added adjustment (opacity) to blend easier.
