Best Way to Remove Wrinkles from Clothes in Photoshop 2021

Learn to use the amazing power of Frequency Separation to magically even out the creases without disturbing the texture of the fabric. Best Way to Remove Wrinkles from Clothes in Photoshop In this video, we will learn how to separate the image into wrinkles and fabric texture so that we can just work on the wrinkles and not affect the texture. Using the mixer brush, we will even out the wrinkles and creases.

Remove Wrinkles from Clothes in Photoshop

In today’s video I’m going to show you how to easily remove wrinkles from clothes in Photoshop. We’re going to be using a Photoshop action to create all the layers for frequency separation.

So we use frequency separation because we can do more in less time and get better results. So no matter what your skill level is, you can adapt this workflow. Here we’re going to use an action for frequency separation and the link is in the description. Go ahead and download that and install it.

How to Use the Supplied Photoshop Action for Frequency Separation

Now I’m going to explain how this particular action works and we’re going to use it on this easy example here. Then we’ll move on to others after you had the action downloaded and installed. So come here to actions and you’re going to see FS2+median. And come down here to FS2 16 bit. Highlight that, and here is the play button. Click that, and first thing that happens is the median dialog box pops up. Now sometimes you’ll see Gaussian blur being used in this step for frequency separation. But we’re going to use Median.

So now we need to find the sweet spot when using median. This will help us to be able to do the most work in the least amount of time. So here are some guidelines for median. The goal is to keep the radius as low as possible. So let’s start around four or five. You probably won’t need to go above 20, depending on the image.

So for most images, it’s probably going to be between 4 and 12. So if we start below 4 and go down to say, two, you can see that the image details are still there. You want to remove as much of the detail as you can while maintaining image integrity. If you go too high and depending on the image, you’re going to see the image fall apart. You don’t want that.

So the idea is to have median as low as possible, so I’m going to move this down to say, 6 and see how that works. So keeping the radius low maintains the image integrity. And I’m going to hit Ok. We’re running median twice here.

So when we run median the second time, it’s going to remove some of the leftover patterns. So that’s why we can keep median low ’cause we’re running it twice. And anything that median removes it adds to the detail layer. I’m going to say, OK, the action completed.

And here are all our layers in the layers panel. We’re going to be working mostly with the low working layer, which is the color. And if you’re familiar with frequency separation, so we have our texture or detail separated from our color. We’re going to be working on the color. Now, all we have to do is think about changing the color, and you can change the color with tools like the healing tool, the mixer brush, the clone stamp, or any combination of those tools.

How to Use the Mixer Brush – Example 1

So now we have our action install. We ran the action and decided what value wanted for our median, and we’ve also decided that we’re going to work on the color. Now you want to look at your image and decide what are the problem areas that you want to work on.

Here you can see the back of these jeans here has creases and sometimes when you’re working on clothing there are folds and creases that look better if they’re just taken away a little bit. You kind of maintain them so that it looks realistic. So you’re going to want to soften those up.

But the first tool we’re going to use is the mixer brush. If you haven’t used the mixer brush before, it’s pretty easy to use. Mixer brush simulates realistic painting techniques such as, mixing colors on the canvas, combining colors on a brush. And varying paint wetness across a stroke. The mixer brush has two paint wells so you can select a color here with the color picker that is the reservoir. And it stores the final color deposited onto the canvas and has more ink capacity.

But we’re not going to use that. We’re not going to load our mixer brush from any color. We’re actually not going to paint a color. We’re going to mix colors. We’re actually going to use the pick up well. So to use that, make sure that this is transparent, and make sure that this icon right here is selected right next to this word custom.

So as far as all our settings here, the load leave at 100 and mix at 100. Make sure that those values are at 100, because all of the paint is going to be picked up from the canvas. And flow leave at 100, because that works very similar to the way flow works for the brush tool. And wet controls how much paint the brush picks up from the canvas. So for now, leave the flow to 100.

So I’m going to change the wet value to something like 20 and make sure I am on the low working layer. And I’m going to brush across the wrinkle or the fold and make the brush big enough where it takes care of My wrinkles in my creases. We’re maintaining the texture.

In fact, some of this could be texture ’cause we’re taking care of the color. And if you think you’ve gone too far, you can change the opacity. And so using the mixer brush like this. we’re just pushing color. We’re not actually painting color, we’re just using the paint or the color that’s on the canvas, pushing the color and mixing it.

And if you get any outside of your Boundaries you can use the eraser tool to erase than. And here’s the before and here’s the after. So I just wanted to give you an idea of how to use the mixer brush we’ll go onto another example. That’s a little bit more interesting. If you’re getting value out of this so far.

How to Use the Mixer Brush – Example 2

Here’s another example. Let’s run our action. I’m going to duplicate this bottom layer here. Command J and come up here to actions, and this is an 8 bit image this time. So I’m going to select FS2 8 bit. And run the action And I think I put this radius here at 6 and just to show you if I bring the radius up to say something like. 30 you see how the image really falls apart. So keep it low. Let go with 6, 2 is way too low. Bring it up to about 6. Remember, we’re going to run it twice. I’ll say OK, we’re running again, and there is our action that we have run.

And now again we’re going to work on the lower working layer. We’re going to work on the color and if we look at this image here, you can see that there’s some creases in this dress. Some close fit exactly right. There’s no creases and wrinkles. As you can see, this model is posing where her hand is as possibly making some folds. And the way she’s shifted her body. That’s OK.

One thing that is always an option is just to make the folds and creases at a minimum. Have them look natural. So the lower working layer selected that my current brush load icon here is transparent and clean brush after each stroke is highlighted there. I’m gonna leave the wet around 20% everything else 100. You’re going to zoom in a little bit here and I’m brushing along each of these folds and I’m just trying to smooth them out a little bit.

And you may use any other tool like the clone stamp or the healing brush if you’re not getting the results you want out of the mixer brush. And so we’re just pushing the colors and mixing them. We’re not actually painting with the color. Just trying to minimize some of these folds or wrinkles.

You may have to go over it a couple of times as you’re brushing and just try and get a natural look. You can see that your folds or creases are reducing and ever so often you can zoom out. And there is how it looks so far. There is the before and there’s the after.

Again if you think you’ve gone too far, you can either put a layer mask on the lower working layer and paint out which you do not want. You could change your opacity to somewhere where it looks natural. Say something like that. At this point, we’ve just used the mixer brush to make the folds or creases a little bit less than they were, so it looks natural.

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