Fixing major wrinkles

Dear All or Anyone
I shot a great portrait of my Great Aunt. The problem is that, at 93 she has some very deep wrinkles.  It is a in your face close up,, I want to tame it and reduce the dark shadow from the wrinkles.
Healing brush tools, blur, content aware all seem to look fake. I can’t find any good places on her face to clone or sample.
I've tried to search Adobe using different wording for wrinkles.
Any help please
Don
Photoshop CS6
Lightroom 4
PS: this is my first posting using Adobe Forums.... such a incredible product and skilled people.

There are many ways of doing this.  You mentioned blur.  Did you try duplicating the layer, blurring it, setting the blend mode to Lighten, adding a layer mask, then painting in the wrinkle areas?  You can also split the image into high and low frequentcies by makeing two duplicate layers.  Turn off the top layer and blur the bottom layer to eliminate the lines.  Turn on the top layer and select it.  Use Apply Image with Subtract Mode.  Use the blurred layer as the source layer, and set the scale to 2 and the offset to 128.  Then change the layer's blend mode to linear light.  By doing this you have a layer with all the detail and one with the colors and tones.  You can then edite each separately with makes it easier to make corrections.  To reduce the wrinkles using this method: on the detail layer, select a brush set to lighten blend mode with a color of netural gray (128, 128, 128)  With low opacity brush over the wrinkles to lighten them.  You can set the brush to darken to hit the highlights of the wrinkles.  To see what you're doing better, you can add an adjustment layer above the detail layer to increase the contrast, but change the detail layer back to normal while editing.  You can then adjust any dark areas in the blurred layer that shows the wrinkles.

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    Welcome To  Discussions mfidelman!
    What were you backing up, and what method were you using?
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