As promised, here’s “Removing Blemishes and Freckles”. I apologize that it’s a day late. Murphy was biting me in the butt trying to get these video uploaded to my ISP.
I’ve also posted another tutorial, “Layers and Masks”. Using layer masks is a very important basic technique that I use in almost every step in the process. If you don’t have a firm grasp of masks, be sure to watch and understand this video. You’ll use this technique over and over again.
The first few steps in creating the Jordan image involved removing facial blemishes, and to generally clean up other scene elements that I thought were distracting. After all of the other related tutorials are posted, I’ll wrap it all up with a post that discusses how they all come together to make the image.
# Anonymous on February 25th, 2008
Nice method of removing blemishes
Can’t wait for more. Speed it up 
# Eddie on March 1st, 2008
Hey, thanks for sharing this. It’s really helpful to learn tips and tricks on editing a photo from this blog. One question, wouldn’t it be easier to just use the cloning and healing tool?
# mike on March 1st, 2008
You could, but if you were doing freckles, that might take forever. The clone and healing tool is very surgical, and if you have just a few to paint out, it works great. This technique is useful if there’s a lot of freckles or blemishes, and you’d like to paint them all out with a large brush and just a few strokes.
# Eddie on March 5th, 2008
That makes sense. Thanks Mike!