how do you get that glossy smooth look with photoshop

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Hj

That depends on what your referring to?

Could you be a little more descriptive relative to the glossy look
your asking about?

There are a number of tools which can be used to despecle and
smooth out grain in an over pixelated image.

There are tools which can be used to elevate layer elements and
add stylings to those elements.

Can you describe an example of what your referring to?

Glossy like shiny?  Or do you just mean blemish-free?

If you're going for the latter, I recommend the band-aid tool in Photoshop 7 or CS.  It gives great skin without the artificial look of too much Gaussian Blur, and anticipates shadowing unlike Clone Stamp.

How do you get the glossy smoth look?  If you mean the even glowing skin seen on some maxim/fhm style shoots it is done through a mix of adjusting levels, airbrushing the skin with a mid-tone sampled from the image, correcting the brightness and constrast, airbrushing some more then using the distort/diffuse glow filter, using adjust/selective color to make the skin the right tone then using unsharp mask.

Practice, Practice, Practice (which I have yet to do).

And now in photoshop cs2, they included a reduce noise filter which does a great job in making the first stage of smoothness.

Annjilique:

    Generally speaking, print runs take art work from the CMYK color space.
The pages are then run on glossy stock papers which add that glossy finished
appearance to the final publication.

    There is also the matter of DOP, or depth of field perspective tolerance and
contrast.

    Where the background is matted and the foreground is ever so slightly
embossed, but so lightly embossed as to be nearly invisible.

    By increasing the soften level to 100% in the embossing function
in PS you can simulate a slight glossy finish to the upstream elements in the
final composition.

    By contrasting the Background against the foreground elements you can
achieve an almost glossy type look. Using the airbrush tool to feather out
inconsistencies in tones through region sampling using the cloning tool and by
creating textures from the original composition.

   I know this might seem complicated and you asked for simple instructions but
there is a blend of theory and application involved in the process.

   Here's what I think your asking about in an online tutorial:

http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/ … y-buttons/

Cheers.