Softfocus filter or airbrushing? - mature women

Older people can have more freckle type marks on skin. I am not usually a portrait person so this is all new to me. They are just snapshots but they don't like all their skin spots showing up on the image.

 

Would a softfocus filter do or would I need post processing techniques? I rather not spend that much time on it, just snapshots.

Spot healing brush in light room will do the trick. Go to photoshop and use the spot healing brush there and it is just click, gone, click, gone. Don't just blur the skin, it removes all pores/texture and makes it look plastic. If you have a faster lens, it could help localizing what is in focus to the frontal planes of the face as well as give you some isolation of the subject from the blurry background. Shoot from the shadow side and have the shadow pretty dark. That will leave only the frontal plane to edit.

Here is part of an image. Shot at 70mm with Av mode at F4.

There is quite a fair bit.

Similar situation, don't do a lot of PP used PSE 14 (and up) Guided, Perfect Portrait quick & easy.

You can eliminate most of the small ones with the spot healing brush in a minute or two. The larger might require the clone stamp. Blemish removal is usually the first thing done in my work flow after straightening and cropping. Then wrinkles. In Lightroom, just drag the healing brush along one at a time. That completely eliminates them so pull back the opacity slider to bring them back to taste. Then you can do some skin softening but leave in the skin texture.