Tawe19,
As with the previous photo, I did this very quickly. I am sure if you spend a couple of hours working on it you will achieve a much better result.
To "clean" the skin I made a small selection on one of the more even areas (on the left cheek) with the free select tool, then blurred that just sufficiently to smooth the irregularities. Then, I used that as a sample for the healing brush to move into other areas, regularly changing my sample point as I moved over the face.
I also emphasised the eyes and the lips as this gives greater impact to a portrait. I put some information about this in a tutorial on Gimp Learn. https://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1133#p12910
Hope this is of help.
david.
Edit: Apologies. I should have said that the tutorial shows how to select eyes and lips, but the information on emphasising is further down in the thread that follows.
As with the previous photo, I did this very quickly. I am sure if you spend a couple of hours working on it you will achieve a much better result.
To "clean" the skin I made a small selection on one of the more even areas (on the left cheek) with the free select tool, then blurred that just sufficiently to smooth the irregularities. Then, I used that as a sample for the healing brush to move into other areas, regularly changing my sample point as I moved over the face.
I also emphasised the eyes and the lips as this gives greater impact to a portrait. I put some information about this in a tutorial on Gimp Learn. https://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1133#p12910
Hope this is of help.
david.
Edit: Apologies. I should have said that the tutorial shows how to select eyes and lips, but the information on emphasising is further down in the thread that follows.