Skin Softening Technique

I just wanted to post a picture showing the new technique that I learned today!  My sister had a baby in November of last year and I took her newborn portraits.  She was my first newborn to "shoot" and so I really wasn't sure of how to do different things.  One thing that I didn't know how to do well was skin softening.  I've seen a few videos and tried a few times, but never liked the end result, so I just went back to the best I could do with "band-aid" tool and stuff like that.  Well after seeing this video and trying it out (all but airbrush), I'm so pleased with the end result!  Here is a side-by-side with my original edit and the new edit...wow, my original edit looks bad, lol! 

I believe since I was able to find it and get help from it, I should share it with others that may be having the same problem, so I hope this helps with your editing :)

I've been very busy with life lately, but not as much with photography.  We're getting ready to move and have been doing all that goes with that.  But recently I decided I wanted to do new portraits of my kiddos.  So I took them out, one by one, and did a mini-shoot with them and ended up with 3 great portraits (one of each).  I ended up with some other fun ones, but these are the ones that I LOVE!

I have some fun stuff coming up in the next month, so I'll be posting them when the time comes.  Have a great summer!