I have recently been experimenting with frequency separation, using the Apply Image method to create a "blurred" layer and a high frequency one.
I absolutely love the amount of control you get when cloning directly on the high frequency layer: it's not something you can normally do with the clone stamp or the healing brush. I understand why it's a better method.
Before I used frequency separation, I always had a "clone" layer, an empty layer on which I did all my cloning and healing, with the tools set to "Current & Below". This was great because I could selectively erase parts of that layer and start over, at any time. It's truly non-destructive.
Now, my problem: how do you do that with frequency separation? As I understand, you must clone directly on the high frequency layer for it to work. So what if, after 3 hours, you decide that you shouldn't have removed that blemish, or you made a mistake somewhere, but you don't want to start from scratch? You can't selectively revert certain areas of the high frequency layer to its original state.
Is there a way to do this? Say, make a blank layer on top of the high frequency layer, and have the clone tool only clone from the high freq layer onto the new blank layer? I can't get this to work because of the Linear Light blending mode. Is there some method to achieve this?
Otherwise, frequency separation is actually quite destructive, since you can't go back (unless you Undo of course, but that's not what non-destructivism is about). Sure, you can take your original layer, frequency separate that, and then copy bits of the original high freq layer onto your modified one to revert those areas… but that's very fiddly and leaves you with way more layers than seems necessary.
Thanks!
I absolutely love the amount of control you get when cloning directly on the high frequency layer: it's not something you can normally do with the clone stamp or the healing brush. I understand why it's a better method.
Before I used frequency separation, I always had a "clone" layer, an empty layer on which I did all my cloning and healing, with the tools set to "Current & Below". This was great because I could selectively erase parts of that layer and start over, at any time. It's truly non-destructive.
Now, my problem: how do you do that with frequency separation? As I understand, you must clone directly on the high frequency layer for it to work. So what if, after 3 hours, you decide that you shouldn't have removed that blemish, or you made a mistake somewhere, but you don't want to start from scratch? You can't selectively revert certain areas of the high frequency layer to its original state.
Is there a way to do this? Say, make a blank layer on top of the high frequency layer, and have the clone tool only clone from the high freq layer onto the new blank layer? I can't get this to work because of the Linear Light blending mode. Is there some method to achieve this?
Otherwise, frequency separation is actually quite destructive, since you can't go back (unless you Undo of course, but that's not what non-destructivism is about). Sure, you can take your original layer, frequency separate that, and then copy bits of the original high freq layer onto your modified one to revert those areas… but that's very fiddly and leaves you with way more layers than seems necessary.
Thanks!
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