How I do Frequency Separation

what's up everybody it's your boy aaron spivey sorrells i'm about to show you how i do frequency separation on my client i'm not gonna take that long i'm not gonna talk too long so we're gonna get right into it first you see here this is my oops this is my beautiful daughter right here jewel and i am about to do some coloring real quick with the opening of camera raw as you guys seen plenty times before so what i'm gonna do here is i'm gonna lower this down just a little bit i always do that to 49.50 of the contrast just a little bit uh leave the highlights along especially when i'm shooting on a white background i might bring the shadows down just a little bit just to give some give it a little bit of a cinematic look raise the whites to 10 raise the black down to 10 and i usually add more color to this after i uh work on the frequency separation i do a little dodging burner here and there uh so don't worry about all the coloring right now i don't add that much color at this spot right here so add a little texture here my clarity is always at 10. uh that's just for the that's it in the middle of the road for me and i add a little bit of vibrance here i just do two and saturation is to i really don't touch my curves just yet because i want to see how the colors come out when i'm finished doing the editing okay now we're going to open it up and put it in photoshop now the first thing that i do is i look over the picture and i'll always duplicate it ctrl j ctrl j duplicate it and then i zoom in on the picture now this is my beautiful girl she's a teenager so she's going to have a little blemishes on her face just a little pimples here growing pains but she still is beautiful i tell her that all the time this is my my other three girls of my black girl magic and oh before i go on make sure you guys invest in a tablet i got a wide wacom i don't know how to pronounce a welcome tablet and it helps editing go a little bit faster and a little bit smoother but so the thing that i do first i always go to the healing brush the spot healing brush and i click on it and i clean up the little blemishes now some people wait after uh they're finished with the frequency separation to clean up the blemishes but for me i do it uh the first thing i do when i open up the pictures i'm going to enlarge my brush a little bit and go around and clamp the little blemishes on her face so i go here take take that away take this away i'm gonna speed this up for you guys so we can hurry up and get through this all right okay i think we did a great job on that so what i do next i blend these two together as we say merge down and then i duplicate it three times then i go to the middle one so i click on the middle layer right here and i hide the top layer so the first thing you want to do is go to filter go to blur go to gaussian blur now when you come here you really do not want to overdo the blur you just want to show uh it covering the skin and you barely see the skin that's underneath the blur you don't want to overdo it you don't want to do it just like this you don't want to not be able to see the eyes not being able to see at least the uh the outline of the nose outline of the eyes the outline of the cheekbones certain cheekbones and that's a little bit too much so what i'm gonna do is just for for the video i'm going to just overdo it just a little bit so you guys can see it all right just a little bit nine ten i think that that's a little bit too high i think that right there is perfect for what we need right here so we add the gaussian blur right here and we click ok then we go to the top layer click the top layer go to the top layer then you want to go to image then you want to go to apply image and the thing we want to apply is this the layer here where it says merge we want to apply the image to the first layer so we go to layer one go to layer one make sure we apply that and then we go here to blending modes then we go down and we go to subtraction and we click okay all of this should stay the same you should have 100 capacity scale 2 128 that should be a part of the default and then we push ok now we go here and see right here uh we're going to click linear light then we're going to go right back to the second layer and this is where we start the frequency separation now this is where i'm going to use my y-com qualcomm wherever how you pronounce it i'm going to use my welcome pin and do some work to it and what we're going to do is we go to our lasso tool and we take little spots around the skin around the face and we outline it and then we add more gaussian blur so what i'm going to do is take my pen oh come on over here and push my pin down then i'm gonna start to draw and when you guys aren't watching usually i try to do the whole entire forehead go around her eyebrow go around here great got that outline next thing you know you go to filter you go back to blur now when we add this blur what you want to do is try to make it look as natural as possible and increase the blur to kind of fill in this outline spot and what i do is i raise it up uh 24.9 that's perfect for me this is perfect you see the difference between how smooth this is and how uh rough this is right here this is the look that we're going for for the entire face 24.9 so click ok then we go to deselect and we tried all over again so i'm going to use my pin again i'm going to go right in the middle where i left off go around go around go a little further come back up go around her eyebrows oh i went to it that's okay it'll be fine then we go here go to filter go to blur go to gaussian blur and there you have it we did it again now i'm gonna speed this up for you guys now i'm gonna do it one more time so i can show you a faster way to do the gaussian blur so what we're going to do we're going to go around her nose let's go around her nose and align her nose go in her nose then come around again and go around so you go to filter here and at the top it should have what you did the last time and the last time i did was gaussian blur just click on that and it has the same texture that you did on the other parts of her skin and go up here and you go to deselect let's make sure i did that deselect okay we're going to speed this up so you guys can see what the finished product would be about to lower the opacity but one thing i'm about to do i want to because i like the way this looks i like the way it looks right now uh it's a little bit too much so what i do is i group these two uh layers together control then i uh left click on my mouse and group these bad boys so i drag it down put them in a group now just lower the opacity just a little bit so we won't get that fake look we want it to me i want all my pictures to look real just a little bit touched up i don't want that fake look so i just lowered it down just a little bit so we can still have that realness in her face and on her skin so just lower it down just a little bit maybe to 65 let's go to 65. come on 65. i'm one of those guys i need to get on 65 or i can just type it in type is 65 yep type in 65 because i'm gonna get my 65. there it is 65 that's the way i run it now that is amazing let's do it before before after before after great that is great retouching right there that is awesome okay guys that's how i do frequency separation it was real quick once you get the steps down it becomes real easy and easy to do so make sure you guys get out there and practice and hope you guys enjoyed this little small tutorial thank you

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Keywords: Frequency Separation, dodge and burn, photoshop, highend retouching, retouching, portraits

Id: EbdkASiXiUY

Length: 11min 16sec (676 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 23 2020