Summary: Unless you're looking at a photo of a guy in the rugged outdoors, chances are the stubble on his face isn't adding anything to the image. In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll see how to give a guy a virtual shave and improve his appearance.

Written by Steve Patterson
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Part of our complete collection of Photo Retouch tutorials.

In this Photoshop photo editing tutorial, we're going to learn how to reduce the appearance of 5 o'clock shadow and beard stubble in a photo. Of course, if the photo is of a guy out in the rugged outdoors and he's dressed like he's off to wrestle with a mountain lion, you may not want to remove the stubble. But in other types of photos, it may just make him look like he could use a rest, or maybe he's been resting a little too much, in which case you'll want to remove it, or at least reduce it. We're going to see how to do that here.

Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial:

And here's how he'll look when we're done:

Let's get started.

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