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PHLEARN - frequency seperation

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Delve deep with this evaluation and discuss key areas where you feel you did

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You should use screen grabs of each step, or you can make a recording of how you use the technique (try using QuickTime Player. it's free of charge).

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Frequency separation is a useful technique that is used to separate colour information from other details of an image. This allows for adjusting details and colours independently from one another.

This is generally a high frequency layer and a low frequency layer. The information regarding high frequency usually correlates with fine details within an image ie. texture, pores, lines etc. On the contrary, low frequency contains information about shadows, colour and tone.

Frequency separation is a handy tool that can be used as a useful tool in many forms of editing scenarios including portrait retouching, product photography and landscape editing.

Retouching skin method

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This video shows how eyes, lips and hair can be retouched in Photoshop. This is done by using actions.

How does frequency separation work?

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With this technique, you can retouch the high or low frequencies without impacting other areas. However, this does not apply to actual edits to your work. As an alternative, it allows you to break an image apart so that you work on different sections like adjusting skin textures that are independent of colour or shadow.

Would frequency separation be beneficial in your workflow?

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As time is valuable, especially when it comes to photography you want to spend minimal time editing to start your next project. Therefore, creating a frequency separation action on Photoshop will be most beneficial in your post production workflow. This will save you time so that you can get right into retouching your image.

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If an image is in its post production phase and a person begins to manipulate the model's representation, this is a moral implication that will make them fall into dangerous waters. As you retouch the person's skin to make it more "perfect" you are shrinking physical aspects of a model. Therefore you are judging the subject to be flawed and not desirable.

Important qualities of a commercial portrait?

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The sufficient qualities of commercial portraits include high quality lighting ingrained with technical aspects of photography such as exposure and composition. Using suitable lenses and lighting equipment will allow you to create a high-quality portrait.

How much retouching is required

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In general, with portraits you want to have the model’s characteristics and to remain in the image. The image shouldn’t look as if it has been overly optimised. With private portrait commissions, you should depict the model as naturally as possible.

You should leave all permanent features like scars, freckles etc. remaining in the image. Depending on the scenario of the image, you may want to enhance or reduce the intensity of these features. Features which are non-permanent i.e. Spots, blemishes etc. are usually diminished or completely removed.

STEP 1

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Copy your layer several times.

STEP 2

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Head to filter and then press Gaussian Blur

STEP 3

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Adjust the slider to roughly 5.6

STEP 4

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Click the layer you want to make adjustments on

STEP 5

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Press image and then press apply image.

STEP 6

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Change the offset number

STEP 7

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Change the blend mode to linear light

STEP 8

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Open up the lasso tool and draw a selection over the area you want to fix

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This is what it will look like when the lasso tool is in use

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Go to filter, blur, gaussian blur and adjust the pixels until you are happy with it

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I did well with understanding the tutorials of this video easily and doing this task efficiently by processing the information at a steady rate.

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Next time, I would like to see other tutorials of frequency separation and experiment more with the tools in photoshop

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I achieved what the brief asked me to do. I now know how to use frequency separation to enhance my images even more.

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Using different photoshop tools made me feel more confident with retouching techniques, which make me feel encouraged to use this technique frequently

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My work ethic was successful here as I was productive and consistent with the steps that were shown in the videos.