How To Retouch Skin Using Frequency Separation In Photoshop

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Step 1: How to Set Up Frequency Separation

There are several variations of this setup. We have chosen one of the basic methods of frequency separation that use as few layers as possible to get the best results quickly.

We’re going to show you how to create two separate background copy layers representing the low and high frequencies. We’ll name each accordingly and apply a blur to the low frequency and use an Apply Image rendering on the high frequency.

With a few other minor adjustments, it’s not a complex setup by any means but one that could be automated by creating a Photoshop action for it. Lastly, we’ll group these layers for organizational purposes so that additional editing can be done if needed.

If you want to follow along with us, you can download the example image from Pexels.

  1. Press Ctrl + J twice to make two copies of the background layer.
    Step 1 Ctrl + J Twice
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