I wanted to give my thanks to everyone who has explained frequency separations and shared their actions. I just came up with an unusual use for one I thought I would share.
I broke one of my cardinal rules and converted an image to b&w before retouching it. So of course, the client wanted it "with the color back in after all." She already has the b&w so if I tried to clean up all the stray hairs etc on the original color version there would be differences in the two prints. I thought I should be able to just put the color back over the retouch somehow.
Using the original as a layer set to color blend mode didn't work, it was very washed-out in the midtones and didn't look at all realistic. So I ran a frequency separation on both the original and the retouched b&w and layered the high freq layer from the b&w on top of the low freq layer from the original.
Not perfect but a lot more interesting a challenge than just redoing the retouch! I'm curious if anyone else has a better way that I looked right past. Thanks!
I broke one of my cardinal rules and converted an image to b&w before retouching it. So of course, the client wanted it "with the color back in after all." She already has the b&w so if I tried to clean up all the stray hairs etc on the original color version there would be differences in the two prints. I thought I should be able to just put the color back over the retouch somehow.
Using the original as a layer set to color blend mode didn't work, it was very washed-out in the midtones and didn't look at all realistic. So I ran a frequency separation on both the original and the retouched b&w and layered the high freq layer from the b&w on top of the low freq layer from the original.
Not perfect but a lot more interesting a challenge than just redoing the retouch! I'm curious if anyone else has a better way that I looked right past. Thanks!
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