You How An Effective Technique
For Retouching Skin That Retains The Skin’s Texture, While It Removes Skin Blotches And
Imperfections. This Technique Is Called, "Frequency Separation".
Before We Begin, If You Enjoy My Article,
Open A Photo Of A Face That You'd Like To Retouch. I Downloaded This One From Shutterstock. The First Step
Is To Make 2 Copies Of The Photo By Pressing Ctrl Or Cmd + J Twice.
In This Article
We Will Learn Unique And Professional
Method Of Frequency Separation
So Let's Get Started To Making Two Copies Of
The Photo
By Pressing Ctrl Or Command J Twice
Name The Top Layer Low Frequency
And Go To Blending Mode Select Vivid
Light
Now Invert The Image By Pressing Ctrl Or
Command I
Or By Going To The Image Menu Adjustment
And Then Invert Now Go To The Filter
Blur Then Gaussian Blur
Increase The Radius Between 15 And 20.
It Depends On Your Image In This Case
I'm Happy With 20.
Because The Face Of The Model Is Very Close
Up With High Details
Now We Have Created Texture But Before
We Use This Layer
All We Need To Do Here Is To Saturate
The Image
Go To Image Adjustment Hue And
Saturation
Now Decrease The Saturation All The Way
Down To -100
As You Can See, Decreasing Saturation Is
Not Working
Because Of The Blending Mode That We Had
Changed To Vivid Light
So First, Let's Cancel The Hue And
Saturation
In Order To Change The Blending Mode To
Normal All We Need To Do Is
Merge The Layer So Select The Two Layers
By Holding Down The Shift Key And Then Merge
Layers
Let's Desaturate Again
Now It's Desaturated After That Invert
This Layer By Pressing Ctrl Or Command I
Now Let's Change The Blending Mode To
Overlay
After That, Go To Filter Blur And
Gaussian Blur
Increasing The Radius Until The Texture
Appears
I Think 3 Is Ok For Now, So You See We've
Got The Smooth And Softened Skin
But We Don't Want To Smooth And Soften
The Whole Image
To Get Rid Of With This, We Will Create
Mask Go Ahead And Click On This Small
Mask
Icon Basically Here's How A Mask Works
If Your Mask Is White, Whatever Is White
You Can See
We Gonna Invert This You See That When
That's Inverted In Black
Everything Is Hidden, So Black Means You
Cannot See It
White Means You Can See It I'm Going To
Use My Brush Tool
Make Sure The Foreground Color Is Set To
White And Just Paint White Over This
Entire Skin Area
Just Like That
Details Are Okay, I Can Smooth Skin
Really Easy, But What If I Just Going
To Those Nose Edges
As You Can See A Problem I Would
Advise You To Just Avoid This Area
Because We Gonna Fix It Later, For Now
Just Think About The Skin
Change The Blend Mode To "linear Light". At This Point, Your Photo Will Look Exactly The Same.
Make The Middle Layer Active. Zoom Into Areas Of The Face By Pressing "z" To Open Your Zoom
Tool And Drag It Over The Forehead.
Open Your Lasso Tool And Draw A Selection Over The Inside Of The Forehead.
We'll Feather It, So Its Edges Will Be Soft. For Me, The Best Way To
Preview The Amount Of Feathering Is To Click The Refine Edge Button Or Go To Select And Refine Edge.
Drag The Feather Slider To The Right Until It's Blurred Approximately This Much.
The Actual Pixel Amount On Yours May Be Very Different Than Mine Depending On Your Photo's
Size And Resolution. Remember Your Pixel Amount And Click "cancel".
At The Top, In The Feather Field, Type In That Amount.
Deselect It By Pressing Ctrl Or Cmd + D. To Apply The Feathering,
Draw Another Selection Inside The Forehead. And Go To Filter, Blur, And Gaussian Blur.
Slide The Blur Radius To An Amount That Makes The Bitchiness Disappear. The Texture Remains
Because It's On A Different Layer. Click Ok And Deselect It.
Now We Will Smooth Detail Areas Such As
Eyes And Nose Edges
Before We Do That, Let's Merge This Layer
With A New Duplicate Layer Because Now We
Will Work On This
Smooth And Soften The Image Layer The
The Process Is Exactly The Same
Besides The Radius Value Of Gaussian
Blur
Let's Repeat That Process Again
Do Wow, You
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