What is the best way to make skin uniform (not necessarily blurring it!)

Hi,
I have some photographs where the skin of the model's leg is not of uniform brighteness. Without blurring it, I have tried the clone stamp but it is very difficult to not introduce further variations in brightness.
What is the best way to make skin uniform in brightness (actually, the same color!)?
Thanks,
Juan Dent

I know EXACTLY what you mean.  I was doing something exactly on those lines just yesterday.
It's not trivial, but it's doable.
For hard "spots", you can try the Spot Healing Brush first.
But here's a neat trick I sometimes use that can nicely increase the overall smoothness:
1.  Select just the skin area.
2.  Contract the selection a bit and feather the edge, just to make sure you don't mess up the edges.
3.  Filter - Noise - Median, and adjust the radius to be fairly large.  Watch the image to see the smoothness level.
4.  Edit - Fade and knock back the effect, so that it's not perfect, but makes a subtle improvement.
Then, for gentle darkening lightening, try the Burn and Dodge Tools, set to a low Exposure level (and possibly with Airbrush Mode on).  Work gently.
Cloning with low opacity can sometime help as well.
-Noel

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