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The Amazing Power of Frequency Separation Retouching in Photoshop

The Amazing Power of Frequency Separation Retouching in Photoshop
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The Amazing Power of Frequency Separation Retouching in Photoshop Free Frequency Separation Action Few have discovered the amazing power of frequency separation retouching in photoshop! If you want to skip making your own frequency separation layers be sure to download our Frequency Separation Retouching Photoshop Action. It is designed for use in Photoshop CC. What is Frequency Separation? Frequency separation helps make retouching a portrait easier in Photoshop. It sounds quite complex but in practice it is quite simple. 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. First apply a Gaussian Blur to the lower (low frequency) layer. Next choose your high frequency layer and go to Image > Apply Image. Now you should have one layer with a blur (low frequency) and a layer above it that looks mostly gray (high frequency). Your image should now look identical to the image before you started the process. Correcting Underlying Color Correcting Texture

The 35 best Photoshop plugins | Photoshop In this article we've lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe Creative Cloud's photo editing giant. Photoshop is an amazing tool – capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and very passable renders for 3D art. All this power offers a world of possibilities – but occasionally it's worth adding a few optional extras to get the most out of your investment. There's a plethora of plugins available for PS users, but we've selected the best of those that you can download and use straight away. Publisher: Filter ForgePrice: $149-$399 (now with 80% discount $29 - $79)Good for: Photographers, photo editors, graphic designers, 3D artists Currently in version 6.0, Filter Forge offers 11 thousands of filter effects and textures, covering almost every application you can imagine. 63 Photoshop shortcuts to speed up your workflow Publisher: Alien SkinPrice: $129 (free trial available)Best for: Designers 01. Publisher: FontselfPrice: £43Good for: Designers 02. 03. 04.

Advanced Frequency Separation Tutorial | F Stop Lounge Jack Salzke from FadedFocus Photography talks about using Frequency Separation Techniques within Photoshop for advanced skin and colour retouching. Photograph Source: Original Frequency Separation Video: Healing Brush Tutorial: 40 Must Learn Text Effect Tutorials in Illustrator Tutorials January 31, 2011 The love of creating text effects has become a common ground for many designers and enthusiasts. Indeed, it has even become an art form in itself. It would be best to learn from other artists every now and then. Create a Green Viscous Text Effect In this tutorial you will use illustrator’s 3D tools to add dimension on the text, and then add a green viscous text effect.. Learn to Create a Variety of Script Lettering This tutorial will showcase three different approaches, which result in three different script lettering styles. starting with a nice simple basic script, touch on a more athletic inspired lettering style and work along the way to a classic, fancy script. How to create a glassy text effect in Illustrator This tutorial will teach how to create a glassy text effect in Illustrator. How to Create an Entangled Lettering Illustration A two part tutorial where you will learn how to create a brief typographic message from scratch. Create a Mummy Text Effect

Eye Sharpening - Photoshop Tutorial - 416 Studios With this tutorial you can create amazing, bright eyes within minutes. First retouch, adjust levels and do all necessary colour corrections on your image. With a Lasso Tool (L) select the eyes (hold Shift key to add to selection). Hit Ctrl+J to copy selection to a new layer. You can copy the whole layer instead of selecting eyes but applying the filter to the large area like this may take a while on slower computers. Use Smart Sharpen filter on the eyes, the choice of right settings will depend on the size of your file. Add a layer mask to the sharpened layer, then using a white soft brush on 50% bring back paint only iris’ and pupils to expose the sharpened eyes. Using levels brighten the whole picture and then copy mask from previous layer to select only eyes by holding Alt while dragging the sharpened mask (“layer 1” in the pic) onto the “levels 2” layer. Reduce opacity of the colour layer to make the eyes look more natural. And voilà, the image is ready.

The High Pass / Imagenomic Portraiture Link Julian Marsalis wrote: Rule of IHP 1/3???? Can I get some clarity on the subject? Break the face up into zones and selectively mask each from the other? now I am curious of this work flow. The IHP (Inverted High-Pass) can actually be used without the High-Pass filter being applied. To prevent the image looking unnatural or suspicious you would use different radius values on different parts of the skin. Here is how the potential workflow might looked like. Step 1 - Duplicate the background layer or "working" layer, two times. Step 2 - This step is not mandatory for this technique to work but until you get more experienced and get used to common pixel values, it's a good idea to use it. You open the High-Pass by going to Filter - Other - High-Pass and you play around with the radius value, until you start to see the areas that represent the problem as circled in red. Step 3 - Select the LOW layer and apply Gaussian Blur with the radius of 48 px.

50 Portrait Retouching Tutorials To Take Your Photoshop Skills To A New Level Email Is it something that often happens to you? You just sit and keep on looking through your photos on the computer screen trying to take a closer look at your full-size pictures. Of course, what you see during the shoot with your eyes and what you get after the photo session is not the same thing. Photoshop is capable of making slightly imperfect photo into an awesome shot. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. \24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

Frequency Separation made easy Lanenga wrote: This is by no means THE way to do it. Just a easy to follow step-by-step separation workflow. But the gausian blur is done on a smart object layer. Maybe you're still running the first action I uploaded today. If you'd like a surface blur there, you can easily change the action. Didn't want to scare people by baking in a surface blur that will take 5 minutes to finish True, no eyeball, no sampling. This method was to give the same result as the blank layer while maintaining an accurate visible reference of the shot. I can get a better result by doing some good old D&B then by using blurs for everything. Thought I wouldn't? 1) Smart object now? 2) Re visibility...actually is ok on HF alone OR with an original underneath (edit..Richard Vernon suggests using the HF alone @ 100/100)...the concern w the vid was that Ang was sampling the LF layer...yikes... 3) DB/curves layers are part of every portrait workflow. 4) Impressed that you took the time?

54 free Photoshop actions Adobe's flagship image-editing software Photoshop has a powerful programming language built-in that allows you to record tasks as an 'action' and replay the steps to complete the task automatically. Not only can you record your own but you can also import actions, opening up a whole range of effects and time-saving options – whether you're using an older CS or have signed up to the very latest Creative Cloud version. So to add to our collections of Photoshop plugins and Photoshop resources, here are some great Photoshop actions that are free to download and install, for photographers, graphic designers, game artists and more. You can jump to the section you want from the dropdown menu above, but you should definitely check out the entire list – who knows where inspiration will strike! Photo filters 01. If your photos just aren't sinister enough for your liking, this free action should make things a little more unsettling. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13.

How to Easily Correct Colors and Match Tones in Photoshop In this tutorial I’ll show you a unique approach to correcting mismatched colors quickly and intuitively. Unlike some of the other tools available to you such as curves, selective color or hue/saturation, this approach requires very little guesswork and is largely automated thanks to the corresponding action provided here. Big thanks to my buddy Brock McFadzean for helping me refine the action process. He’s a great photographer and a master at Photoshop actions so check out his work here. I call the technique the Subtracted Average Color Adjustment (SACA) – for lack of a better name – as this is exactly what it does. It takes two averaged colors, computes the difference between them and applies that difference to a destination area via the appropriate blend mode. The above is a common situation that you’ll run into whenever shooting in the studio with a small light modifier like a reflector pan or beauty dish, whereby the neck and chest area don’t match the tones in the face.

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#CreativeFriday – Skin Retouching with Frequency Separation in Photoshop Would you like another great way to re-touch skin? A good photographer/freelancer and Photoshop trainer friend of mine (Dave Wall) explained a great skin retouching technique in Photoshop. This particular process isolates the skin texture from the colour so that they can worked on separately, it is relatively simple to apply, but will touch on some more complex uses of blending modes. It’s an amazing process and will certainly help the process of re-touching skin and keeping the delicate texture in tact. Dave’s technique focuses on beauty, however, i am going to show this technique based on a travel photography scenario. Open the image inside Photoshop. As you can see in the image, there are a few blemishes in the skin which i might want to fix. Rename the layers ‘Texture’ and ‘Colour’ as in the example above (it’s good practice to rename the layers so that you can retrace your steps), to edit a layer name, double click on the name itself and type in the new name. Cloning and Healing….

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