Brushes
How to Create Custom Brush Presets for Retouching
Photoshop’s default brushes are general purpose. They work, but they’re not optimized for the specific demands of portrait retouching. Building custom brush presets tuned for skin work, dodge and burn, and detail editing makes a measurable difference in both speed and quality. Here’s how to create the three brushes every retoucher needs. Brush 1: The Skin Smoother This brush is designed for painting on masks over skin areas — typically for frequency separation smoothing layers or noise reduction layers.