The Amazing Power of Frequency Separation Retouching in Photoshop download the free action of Frequency Separation Retouching
Retouching has never been more simple! Frequency Separation splits texture from color and makes retouching skin much easier! What is Frequency Separation? Frequency Separation helps make Retouching a portrait easier in Photoshop. Frequency separation works because it allows you to separate the Texture of an image from the tone and Color. When Retouching you can focus on just the texture or the skin beneath it. It sounds quite complex but in practice, it is quite simple. If you want to work with texture, choose the high-frequency layer, if you want to work with skin choose the low-frequency layer. Getting Started with Frequency Separation To get your image set up for frequency separation, you will have to make 2 copies of your background layer. If you are not starting from the beginning, add a stamp visible over all layers by typing CTRL+ALT+OPTN+E. One of these copies will be for your low frequency (skin) and one will be for your high-frequency texture. First, apply a Gaussian Blur to