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Ok this is how I smooth all my photo edit's skin, it works nicley with meez and look a lot more realistic when your editing real people, so for all our meezy sakes I shall show you with a meez, I will also show you how Asha edits her eye color! So here we go.

SMOOTHING SKIN:
First make a duplicate image of your meez in the layer box. Then go to Filters, Blur, Selective Gaussian Blur, and set the Blur raduis to 6. Your picture should look like this now:

Now on that same layer go to the Layer drop down menu, select Mask, Add layer mask, and then pick Black (full transparency) your layer box should look like the following:

Now select a fuzzy or soft round brush,usuing the color white, and with 100% opacity color over your meez skin, avoiding the eyes, lips and hair. It should now look like this:

Feel free to go over the meez skin with the white brush as many times as you want, the more you go over the smoother it looks. But if you go over too many times it just looks like a blury mess. Now for the EYES!

EDITING THE EYES:
First make a new transparent layer, new layer, full transparency and your good. Your layers box should look like this:

In this layer take that same fuzzy circle brush at 100% opacity and choose a color you want to use, for this im going to use purple. Color over the eye's neatly and dont worry. It looks crappy now. Heres what mine looks like so far:

Now go to the little scroll down menu at the top of the layers box and select the Color setting. Then knock down the opacity for a more subtle color. Here's how mine turned out:

Now I use my dodge/burn tool to make a few light colored lines in side the eye, this step is optional but I like to do it any way! After adding some small lines smudge the eyes from the pupil outward. Now lets compare the two pictures.
Before:

After:

Tune in next time to learn how Asha adds make-up and highlights! Thanks for viewing my incredibly boring tutorial!
Love, Ash