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name: skin-enhance
description: "Magnific Skin Enhancer for big faces only: Creative for pronounced skin texture, Faithful subtle, Flexible maximum detail. Never on small faces or full figures. Part of the upscale meta-skill."
---

These creative references describe source experiments with external tools. Use your own supported account and tools; this download installs no automation. Settings and timings are experimental observations, not current FlashBoards availability.

# skin-enhance · skin on a big face only

**When the focus is on skin, this is the tool** — after (or instead of) the Ultra Sublime 2× Grainy Analog upscale.

## Choose

| Priority | Settings (`images_skin_enhancer`) | Time | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 🏆 | `version=creative` | ~76 s | pores and freckles pushed, face kept — source experiment pick for close-ups |
| subtle | `version=faithful` (optional `skinDetail` 60, `smartGrain` 10, `sharpen` 10) | 62–81 s | almost untouched, adds pores |
| max | `version=flexible`, `optimizedFor=enhance_skin` | ~133 s | the most detailed skin |

All versions also enlarge the image ~4× (Creative ~3.4×).

## Hard rule

- **Only when the face is big** (a close-up). On the small face of a full figure every version failed (tested on a demo character sheet, Mara):
  Creative → pitted, older skin, pale eyes; Faithful → grey-green eyes turned brown.
- On a character sheet: crop the close-up half, enhance it, never the whole sheet.
- For the whole image use `upscale-closeup` (Ultra Sublime) first; skin is an optional second pass.