![]() ![]() I was finding that gaussian blur spread the color and luminosity too much on the low frequency layer in areas where there is a strong sudden shift in color and or luminosity. Possibilities are nearly endless :-)!īut if the asymmetric separation works, that's great as well, I just thought this could give you even more flexibility :-).Yes, Jonas. Or you could try the "Filter"-"Blur"-"Surface Blur". ![]() the "Filter"-"Noise"-"Median" preserves (especially round) edges pretty well. The first thing I'd try then would be to use something different from Gaussian blur to create the separation.Į.g. Just to make sure I'm getting the problem right: when you're doing a Gaussian blur based separation to fix problem areas in your image, once you work on areas of high contrast, you run into problems? You still need to choose your Radius of separation wisely because you can still make a mess if you are not careful. You can experiment by sampling texture with the healing brush and stamoing it on another area. Finally, select the middle copy (Color) Layer and change its blend mode to Color and hit Ctrl+E to merge it down onto the LF layer. Next do Image > Apply Image using the LF layer as the source as the source just as you do in a normal freq separation. Once again, Desaturate the layer and Edit > Fade Deasaturation and change the Blend Mode to Hue. Next to this same layer apply the Gaussian Blur as you normally would. To the bottom copy (LF), desaturate the layer (Image>Adj>Desat or Crtl+Shift+U), and then immediately go Edit > Fade Desaturation and change the Blend Mode from Normal to Hue. Create 3 copies of layer to be separated and name them LowFreq, Color, HighFreq (bottom to top). To make a frequency separation in which the color is completely separated from the HF layer as well, do the following: 7.Re: question about frequency separation method You can select the “lo” layer and use the Clone Stamp tool (make sure you have the Sample drop-down set to “Current Layer” here too!) and paint with a large, soft-edged clone brush to fade and blend skin tones and color together. When you are healing the details (“hi” layer contains the details of the image) you may find a need to also smooth or clone colors to help smooth things out in your image. ![]() Begin sampling and healing blemishes on your subject’s face. ![]() We want to next grab the Healing Brush tool and set the Sample drop-down menu up in the toolbar to “Current Layer” so we sample from only our “hi” layer. If we were working with an 8-bit image the settings would be tick off Invert, set Blend to “Subtract”, set Scale to “2”, and Offset to “128”. Because we’re working with a 16-bit image we want to tick on Invert and set the Blend to “Add” and set Scale to “2” and Offset to “0”. Go Image>Apply Image and choose “lo” from the Layer drop-down menu. Next, select the “hi” layer and turn it back on by clicking the eyeball icon. TIP: You don’t really want to blur it so much that you can’t make out things like the general shape of facial features, just enough to hide details in the skin. Select the “lo” layer and go, Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and blur the skin until you can’t really see skin detail anymore. Click the little eyeball icon to shut this layer off and hide it. Creating the Layersĭuplicate that “lo” layer by hitting Cmd/Ctrl + J and name this second layer “hi”. Double click the name and rename this layer “lo”. Use the secret hotkey Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Alt/Opt + E to pop everything up onto a new layer. You will want to begin by merging all visible layers to a new layer to create the first layer in the frequency separation sequence. Part 12: Tone Smoothing Grain and FinishingĭOWNLOAD: If you want an action so you can quickly get started with frequency separation for your images, grab my free Photoshop action right here and apply it to any image and start healing and patching to your heart’s delight. Part 11: Create Lens Flare and Digital Lighting Part 10: The Benefits of Destructive Editing Part 4: How to Retouch Eyes, Lips, & Eyebrows This will allow us to get very smooth skin that still has texture and also has beautiful color as well. Our frequency separation will allow us to copy the texture from different parts of the skin, but not the colors. We will use a method called frequency separation to split the colors and details apart in our image and lend additional power to our healing/cloning brushes as we heal away blemishes in the skin. This tutorial will focus on how to retouch skin and the right way to smooth skin and remove blemishes like acne or scars from the skin of your subject. This is part 3 of my “HOW TO RETOUCH” Photoshop series. ![]()
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