Avanced Skin Softening Retouching with Photoshop

In this article, Jean-Sébastien offers advice on how to achieve skin softening using low and high pass filtering. The article is enhanced with illustrative figures and screen shots, and includes example images from Jean’s portfolio. Whether you are just entering the world of digital photography and need some tips and advice on how best to post-process your images, or are a seasoned pro, the insights shared here should be helpful with your own digital post-processing techniques. Advanced skin softening with low and high pass filtering and noise reduction This tutorial will show you how to adjust a model’s skin without losing skin structure and texture. I call this approach “High Pass + Low Pass Filtering.” It splits the image into two layers: * One layer holds the texture and fine details of the image (high frequencies) * One layer holds the tones of the skin and its color (low frequencies) continue

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