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Blend skin tones in Photoshop

Blend skin tones in Photoshop

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Blend skin tones in Photoshop

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- [Instructor] Frequency separation allows you to blend the skin's colors without losing its detail. This technique keeps the texture on one layer and the skin tonality and color on another. Before you begin, remove the pimples and lines, if needed, duplicate the background twice by pressing command+J, rename the top layer high frequency, and then hide it. Rename the middle layer low frequency and keep it active. Go to Filter and select Gaussian Blur. Change the radius until you start seeing the colors in the skin blur and the eyelashes soften, somewhere around Radius 5.0 should work. Now select the top layer, make it visible, and go to Image, Apply Image. So the Source is the name of the image you're working on, low frequency is the layer, check Invert. Blending is Add, Opacity is 100, and Scale is 2. The image is gray. You can see the outline of the photo and some of the detail that's preserved on this layer. Set the…

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