Michael Woloszynowicz Photography. Frequency separation. Software: Photoshop CS2 or later Project time: 1-2 hours Skills: Learn a non-destructive retouching workflow, separate an image by spatial frequencies, recontour shadows and highlights One of the black arts of photographic retouching is how to achieve the impossibly smooth, yet sharply rendered skin, textures and fabrics seen in fashion and beauty images. Photoshop has its own high quality smoothing and sharpening filters, but the two processes tend to be somewhat contradictory. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through how I retouch an image from start to finish, using a technique that enables you to selectively process not only different areas of an image, but also different detail levels. Frequency separation involves creating a high detail (high spatial frequency) layer and a low detail layer from a source image - a particularly clever method of doing this was popularised by Sean Baker, a Maryland-based photographer and retoucher.
Step 01 Step 02 Select the low frequency layer. Step 03. Porcelain Skin Effect. Creating this stunning porcelain skin effect is easier than you may expect. I'll show you step by step how to achieve the effect in Photoshop CS6 but this tutorial works in any version of CS. But before we start, check these useful resources for photo manipulation that will help you create an amazing effect on your photo: This tutorial uses a non-destructive method of photo editing. All editing is done on adjustment layers leaving your original photo intact. Subscribe to our newsletter and get a huge bundle with design freebies and useful tutorials once in two weeks: Get Notified of New Posts Via Email 1. 1a. 1b. Set your solid color layer to pure white. 1c. Once you click OK you will see that your adjustment mask has been added. 1.d 2.Now we are going to set our layer properties. 2b. Note the current settings: Holding down the ALT key click on the Right side of the marker for the Underlying layer marker.
Notice the icon for the Color Fill layer has changed. 3. Make a few tweaks if you desire. PSHERO. Adobe Evangelists. Adobe Evangelists - Photography Adobe Evangelists - Julieanne Kost Worldwide Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost provides experts tutorials, training, tips and techniques for working with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
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