Please support the blog by hitting the follower button. On PC it's on the top right of the page and on mobile it's on the sidebar. If you shoot portraits and are undecided on what the best technique to use for skin retouching is, then look no further. In this week’s post, we will be brushing over the pros and cons of each technique then come to a conclusion to which I think would be better personally in specific images. Let’s start with the first technique: Frequency separation This technique consists of decomposing image data into individual frequencies, which then allows you to edit on each frequency independently. Two frequencies we tend to separate them into is a high-frequency and low-frequency layer. The Higher generally has data for the finer details such as hairs, fine lines, and skin pores. While the lower normally contain colours, shadows and other tone data. We then edit on both of these layers to tweak each specific detail we need to, so the skin smoothens out and ...
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